Admissions

April 7, 2020 - Plenary: Choosing College What are the “jobs” undergraduates are hiring your institution to perform? Join education futurist and award-winning author Michael B. Horn as he reveals key findings from some 200 case …

April 6, 2020 - Enrollment Strategy for Boards Join us for an engaging and practical session on board engagement as it relates to your institution’s enrollment management strategy. Amid a turbulent environment characterized by stagnant enrollment, demographic …

Governing board members need a firm grasp of the environmental factors shaping enrollment strategies and goals since these factors serve as constraints on any institution’s ability to meet enrollment and tuition revenue targets. These factors include such things as: Technological and …

The AGB 2020 Trustee Index is the third annual survey of college and university board members about those issues they see as the most pressing facing the sector and the institutions they serve. This AGB survey, conducted in collaboration with …

More than a few institutions—particularly in the Great Lakes and Northeast regions—are wrestling with declining enrollment.  In The College Stress Test, Robert Zemsky, Susan Shaman, and Susan Campbell analyze IPEDS data from the past decade and find, for example, that …

With college admissions coming under public scrutiny, boards of trustees need to understand their institutions’ enrollment management practices now more than ever. In March 2019, federal prosecutors filed charges against 50 people in six states on crimes ranging from fraud to …

AGB recently published An Anatomy of Good Board Governance in Higher Education, arguing that the right combination of board makeup, focus, and culture can go a long way toward ensuring success in the boardroom. Long experience has shown that the …

This blog post is provided by AGB's Sustaining Sponsor, Baker Tilly. It’s no secret that applying to a top college is difficult and competitive. Prospective students – and their families – are facing increasing pressure when it comes to gaining admission …

The final week of the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2015–16 term was bound to be memorable, despite (or perhaps because of) the unexpected death of Justice Antonin Scalia earlier this year. On the one hand, race-conscious college admissions finally gained the …

For the first time in the history of our school at the University of Cincinnati, last fall the entering class had more women than men. Many members of our board of trustees and I can remember the time, decades ago, …