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Four Tips To Prepare For Changing Borrower Defense To Repayment Regulations

On October 31, the Biden administration officially established new Borrower Defense To Repayment regulations. These rules have been a long time coming, with initial conversations beginning during negotiated rulemaking sessions in late 2022. While the rules themselves are hundreds of pages long, The Department of Education released an accompanying fact sheet. Here’s the high-level: Group… Continue reading Four Tips To Prepare For Changing Borrower Defense To Repayment Regulations

What is Student Self-Retention and How To Foster It

Student self-retention is the idea that students guide themselves toward graduation with less external intervention. Learn how to foster it. 90 percent of schools have goals to improve their graduation rates. Unfortunately, only 49 percent have a solid strategy to do so. Those who do have a retention strategy in place plan to upgrade facilities,… Continue reading What is Student Self-Retention and How To Foster It

Improve Show Rate With Better Early Engagement Data

CourseKey helps schools improve show rates and get more students in the door with critical early engagement data. To get future starts to day one, many schools spend time calling, texting, and emailing students to ensure they’re prepared and ready to begin their program. Unfortunately, a study of 150 higher-ed leaders by communications app, Mongoose,… Continue reading Improve Show Rate With Better Early Engagement Data

7 Tips To Ensure Accurate Placement Rates

One of placement teams’ biggest challenges is determining and proving the accurate placement rates that accrediting bodies require. Tracking down students, managing the attestation paperwork, and keeping files audit-ready can be almost more difficult than actually getting students placed. It’s hard work, but your team has to do it to maintain accreditation standards. Here are… Continue reading 7 Tips To Ensure Accurate Placement Rates

[Self-Audit] Six Questions To Ask If You Want To Increase Placement and Completion Rates

Use this self-audit as a starting point to help you increase placement and completion rates. What sets career education programs apart from traditional higher education is a hyper-focus on completion and placements. Students choose career education knowing that they can complete a program in a short period of time and start making money immediately after… Continue reading [Self-Audit] Six Questions To Ask If You Want To Increase Placement and Completion Rates

How CourseKey Eliminates Pivot Point LAB Grade Entry at Paul Mitchell Schools

Paul Mitchell Schools across the country implemented CourseKey’s integration with Pivot Point to eliminate LAB grade entry, resulting in: 10 hours of staff time saved per month $2-4k in labor costs saved per year in theory grades alone A faster, more accurate view of SAP Beauty and wellness schools across the country prepare students to… Continue reading How CourseKey Eliminates Pivot Point LAB Grade Entry at Paul Mitchell Schools

4 Reasons Why Your School Should Implement Push Notifications To Improve Student Success

92.4% of students using CourseKey opt in to push notifications to stay engaged in their academic journey. Good communication has always been critical to student success, but communication methods must evolve with them as students evolve. When email was first introduced, it wasn’t a popular form of communication, but that changed over time. Now, it’s… Continue reading 4 Reasons Why Your School Should Implement Push Notifications To Improve Student Success

6 Tips To Prepare Trade School Students For Placement

The job outlook in the upcoming decade for skilled trades is growing, but students need more than an education to place in their field of study. Here are 6 things to do BEFORE a student graduates to prepare for placement. Discussions of a global recession are rocking news outlets, but the job outlook for skilled… Continue reading 6 Tips To Prepare Trade School Students For Placement

4 Ways Eliminating Manual Data Entry is Benefiting Vocational Institutions

These four tips will help your staff streamline operations by eliminating manual data entry — and the error rate that comes with it. Vocational institutions across the country experience inaccurate or delayed attendance data due to manual data entry, and it’s reflected in problems like high staff turnover or low enrollment and retention rates. Most… Continue reading 4 Ways Eliminating Manual Data Entry is Benefiting Vocational Institutions

How Vocational Schools Can Prepare for the Enrollment Cliff

The enrollment cliff is looming, creating a unique challenge for enrollment teams. Software eliminates time-consuming tasks so enrollment representatives can focus on identifying trends that will help prevent them from falling off the ledge. What is the 2025 enrollment cliff? The declining birth rate poses a distinct challenge for higher education. In a 2008 survey… Continue reading How Vocational Schools Can Prepare for the Enrollment Cliff