Archive for 'Change'

Do you find yourself mumbling, “Things have got to change around here,” as you try to make sense of the increasingly competitive world of student recruiting? You’re not alone. Some of the leading thinkers and practitioners in college admissions are coming together next week to talk about change.

More specifically, the three-day event in Los Angeles will address “how to change the conversation and action surrounding admissions polices and practices,” according to the organizers at the Center for Enrollment Research, Policy and Practice at the University of Southern California.

While there’s a strong scholarly tone to many of the scheduled sessions — such as “The Social Purpose of Sorting: An Economic Case” — it also seems that presenters and panelists intend to ...

After years of hearing from colleagues, clients and competitors that he should write a book on student recruiting, Brian Niles has published a sobering look at the challenges faced by college admissions and an energizing set of solutions.

Entitled Overthrowing Dead Culture: A Vision to Change the World of College Recruiting, Niles offers what he calls “a familiar story of how combining business basics with innovation can lead to success — and a way to help the college admissions culture break away from the past.”

This need to break from the past is a central theme of the book and served as its catalyst. Niles, the nation’s leading authority on interactive recruiting in higher education, decided it was time to write the ...