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What Are Pre-Orientation Programs?

BestColleges

College pre-orientation programs help incoming first-year students adjust to campus life. Pre-orientation programs are voluntary and occur the summer before a student's first fall semester. Types of pre-orientation programs include those that help students with mental health challenges.

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5 key takeaways on family engagement from the 2024 CampusESP Summit

CampusESP

With over 65 schools in attendance, we spent the day connecting with recruitment and admissions leaders, orientation experts, student success teams, and parent and family practitioners on the impact of families. Families of first-year students in particular are eager for information to support their students' transition.

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Back to School Social Media Posts and Campaign Ideas

HEM (Higher Education Marketing)

Reach out to Higher Education Marketing to get started. Back-to-school season is the perfect time to invite newcomers to your campus to get familiar with their new environment for a smooth transition into campus life. Are you ready to reinvent your school’s marketing strategy?

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Stemming Summer Melt and Improving Admissions Yield and Social Media for Universities

HEM (Higher Education Marketing)

The top reasons for summer melt are concerns about cost, social anxiety arising from moving to a strange environment, and informational barriers related to understanding various registration, housing, and orientation processes. Private social networks help students interact with peers and upperclassmen to ease the transition to university.

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Who Founded Harvard? The Story behind America’s Oldest University

AdmissionSight

This inheritance and his dedication to higher education led him to make a substantial donation to the newly established college in Cambridge, Massachusetts. John Harvard’s books helped the college develop an academic culture, and his donation showed the importance of supporting higher education.

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High school graduates are going to work instead of college. Can we prove they don’t have to choose?

EAB

More and more high school graduates are opting out of higher education in part because of a hot labor market. I have spent most of my higher education career serving post-traditional learners—first military students, then new immigrants to the US, and now as an adjunct faculty member at a community college.

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Surprising Admissions Trends at U.S. Colleges in 2021-2022

Spark Admissions

Like BU, NYU draws more and more applications every year as students continue to show preference for large, diverse, research-oriented universities in major cities. New York University: This year, NYU reported an admission rate of 12.2%, down from 15% two years ago.