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Differentiating Yourself In A Vanilla World

John Stapleton

Posted by: John Stapleton
Wednesday, March 31st, 2010                  Filed under: General

Small class sizes. Great faculty. High academic achievement. Wonderful facilities. The list goes on. I could place this list of features onto countless colleges and universities. I call them the “vanilla features.” On the surface they look alike.
Five years ago you could tout these features as differentiators and it might have been enough.  Not now.
Maybe [...]

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College Bound – Fort Knox

CB

Posted by: CB
Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010                  Filed under: Advertising, College Bound, General

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I think we can all agree that the for-profit schools are different from non-profit colleges and universities. And one of the ways they are different is that they are, and I mean this in a good sense, aggressive marketers. They study and experiment and apply what works and discard what doesn’t.
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College Bound – International Students

CB

Posted by: CB
Wednesday, March 10th, 2010                  Filed under: Enrollment Management, Fun Stuff, General

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Really there aren’t any secrets to recruiting international students.  Treat them like you treat all your other students.  They are looking for a school that has their major and that feels good to them.  Obviously it is a bit harder to deal with the different cultures and languages but to the best of [...]

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College Landscapes

Janet Sieff

Posted by: Janet Sieff
Tuesday, March 9th, 2010                  Filed under: General

Think about the College Landscape, but not in the sense of a metaphor. Think about the true landscape that includes the trees and flowers and architecture. Whether comprised of concrete and a surrounding metropolis – or of paths, grassy slopes, flower gardens and ivy covered ivory towers – the landscapes around institutes of [...]

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