Welcome back to the final episode of Enrollment Growth University. 5 years. More than 250 episodes. And hundreds of hours of being inspired weekly by our peers throughout higher education. All doing amazing things. Building. Experimenting. Innovating. And creating amazing experiences for our students. And I’m so excited to share that Helix Education is now a part of RNL, the leading provider of higher education enrollment management, student success, and fundraising solutions. It has been such an honor to learn with you these past 5 years. So find me on LinkedIn (@ericolsencreative) and drop m ..read more

Andrew Hannah, Adjunct Professor of Entrepreneurship and Analytics at University of Pittsburgh, and Co-Founder and President of Othot joins the podcast to talk about the demographic cliff coming for higher education in 2025, and how big data modeling might be the pathway for institutions to help circumvent it ..read more

Dr. Nicole Smith, Chief Economist at the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce returns to the podcast to talk about the counterintuitive findings from their new series of reports on “The Uncertain Pathway from Youth to a Good Job”, and whether or not our graduates’ immediate economic self-sufficiency needs to become our primary mandate ..read more

Dr. Mark Lombardi, President at Maryville University joins the podcast to talk about the power of co-creating academic programs with local employers vs. insisting our degree programs as-is are the exact match for their upskilling priorities ..read more

Professor Dan Rockmore, Director of the Neukom Institute for Computational Science at Dartmouth College joins the podcast to discuss the AI education maturity curve, the role of the academy vs. industry when it comes to artificial intelligence, and the economic reality when industry is willing to pay our AI faculty far more than we can ..read more

Dr. Unnati Narang, Assistant Professor of Marketing at The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign joins the podcast to talk about the first week of class prompt that improved student engagement by 30%, other pedagogical tests that didn’t move the needle at all, and how to make sure we’re all learning off each other’s online pedagogy experiment curves. Check out this resource: The “Idea Advantage”: How Content Sharing Strategies Impact Engagement in Online Learning Platforms ..read more

Dr. Greg Heiberger, Associate Dean of Academics & Student Success at South Dakota State University joins the podcast to talk about how the metaverse can make our in-person students’ educational experience more immersive, and our online students’ experience more communal ..read more

Dr. Sheila LeBlanc, Associate Vice President of Continuing Education at The University of Calgary joins the podcast to talk about the adoption curve for microcredentials in higher education and the need to adopt a shared language for degree and micro-credentials in order to accelerate it ..read more

Ben Congleton, CEO and Co-Founder at Olark joins the podcast to talk about the enrollment power of a live chat experience, and how these chat transcripts in the aggregate can become some of our most valuable inputs and feedback loops for website content improvements ..read more

Dr. Adam Fein, Chief Information Officer at University of North Texas joins the podcast to talk about embedding microcredentials within our degree programs, and whether or not microcredentials are an existential threat to higher education or its wonderful partner ..read more