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SYBIL NEWMAN

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Newman holds a bachelor’s degree in in professional speech, theatre arts, and broadcast communication and a master’s in leadership studies and adult education from North Carolina A&T University. She served as interim director of the GTCC Foundation.

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PATRENA BENTON ELLIOTT

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Patrena Benton Elliott Patrena Benton Elliott has been appointed president of Halifax Community College in North Carolina.

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DOMINIQUE HARRISON

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

He earned a bachelor’s degree in communication studies from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and master’s in adult education specializing in higher education from A&T. Harrison served as director of undergraduate recruitment and admissions.

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To design microcredentials that meet student needs, follow these 3 steps

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Examples include Public Speaking, Science Communication and Storytelling, and Leading Remote and Hybrid Teams. Florida International University (FIU) allows undergraduates to complete an assessment to earn a badge that demonstrates a specific skill they acquired in their undergraduate coursework.

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Prospects are tired of your advertisements. Organic social media can change that.

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Tips to guide your professional and adult education unit through developing social media content for today's market Digital marketing, despite its potential to reach more customers than any other type of marketing, is seen by most consumers as distracting, intrusive, and inauthentic. Blogs Prospects are tired of your advertisements.

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Are you losing grad and adult enrollments at the last minute? Try these 4 strategies.

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While many institutions follow a robust yield playbook for their undergraduate programs , I’ve found this isn’t always the case for graduate and adult education programs. Intentionally and transparently communicating culture through email should be an essential goal when these offices construct their communication plans.”

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How to engage more community college prospects amid the “great opt-out”

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Source: EAB analysis of American Community Survey data. When I worked in enrollment management, inquiries were one of the most difficult categories of students to capture and communicate with. Participants in GED and adult education courses. Referrals from social services agencies and community-based organizations.