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While many in higher education believe students should be held accountable for their own success, colleges and universities competing for a dwindling number of students have been forced to view students and their parents as customers they need to satisfy. 

Institutions know there’s a difference between making sure a student has fish and teaching them how to fish. But with so many students showing up without their proverbial fishing rods, institutions are beginning to wonder—is it now a college’s job to provide these resources?

Listen to this recording of our blog, Should Institutions Provide the Rods When Teaching Students How to Fish? to learn more about what problems students face and how institutions can provide the tools students need to succeed.

Academic advising as well as mental health and career counseling can be tools to drive student success.

Should Institutions Provide the Rods When Teaching Students How to Fish?

Listen to this audiobook to learn about what problems students face and how institutions can provide the tools students need to succeed.

Jenzabar Audiobook: Should Institutions Provide the Rods When Teaching Students How to Fish?

One out of every five U.S. students lacks basic skills in financial literacy. This means that about 20% of students on college campuses do not possess the ability to understand and utilize basic financial competencies like budgeting, financial management, and investing.

Because financial literacy can play an integral role in student success, colleges and universities looking to bolster student success strategies should be asking themselves: What can we do on campus to ensure our students are financially literate?

Listen to this recording of our blog, Financial Literacy as a Student Success Strategy, to learn more about how promoting financial literacy can help support student success

Promoting financial literacy on campus can help students achieve critical short- and long-term objectives.

Financial Literacy as a Student Success Strategy

Jenzabar Audiobook: Financial Literacy as a Student Success Strategy

It’s not unusual to see partnerships between higher education institutions and businesses, especially at large research institutions where many companies have spent decades working with and funding academic programs. But in recent years, regional colleges and universities have begun to realize the value of partnering with local industry, as doing so allows them to better cater to the needs of their communities and their students.

Listen to this recording of our blog, 5 Reasons Why Higher Ed Institutions Should Partner With Local Businesses, to learn more about why partnering with local businesses should be in your institution’s 5-year plan.

Fostering open, mutually beneficial partnerships with local businesses can help institutions grow and deliver more rewarding student experiences.

5 Reasons Why Higher Ed Institutions Should Partner With Local Businesses

Jenzabar Audiobook: 5 Reasons Why Higher Ed Institutions Should Partner With Local Businesses

Micro-credentials are short, competency-based courses that can be offered as standalone credentialing programs or as additions to traditional degrees. Narrowly focused and skills-based, micro-credentials often allow individuals to stand out in an otherwise competitive job market.

Micro-credentials have the potential to provide institutions with several strategic benefits, including the potential to increase retention and advancement goals.

Listen to this recording of our blog, How Micro-Credentials Aid Retention and Advancement Goals, to learn more.

Institutions around the world are starting to add micro-credentials as an alternative to traditional four-year education. Should you?

How Micro-Credentials Aid Retention and Advancement Goals

Institutions around the world are starting to add micro-credentials as an alternative to traditional four-year education.

Jenzabar Audiobook - How Micro-Credentials Aid Retention and Advancement Goals

Cases of cybercrime in the education sector have risen exponentially in the past few years. In fact, more than 1,000 schools were affected by ransomware attacks in 2022 alone.

As the world grows increasingly digital, it is vital that institutions implement robust cybersecurity initiatives to keep their online environments and highly sensitive data safe. While there are big endeavors that colleges and universities should implement, there are also many smaller precautions that institutions can take to improve their ability to mitigate and bounce back from cybersecurity threats. 

This audiobook highlights just a few of the steps that you can take now to minimize the damage of a cyberattack.

Listen to this recording of our blog, Higher Education Has a Cybersecurity Crisis. Here’s How to Address It, to learn more.

Reduce the risk of ransomware and other attacks by taking a few extra, easy precautions.

Higher Education Has a Cybersecurity Crisis. Here’s How to Address It.

There are plenty of steps higher education institutions can take to reduce the risk of ransomware and other attacks.

Jenzabar Audiobook - Higher Education Has a Cybersecurity Crisis. Here’s How to Address It.

Campuses should be leveraging a modern SIS, as legacy systems have proven to be clunky and can slow down progress during some of the busiest periods of the school year.

A modern SIS serves as the main component of the student lifecycle management system by storing critical student data in a central location, then sharing it with other departments across campus via system integrations. Without a modern, properly integrated SIS, institutions will likely encounter issues associated with data silos, information sharing, and transparency, which can pile up and lead to poor student experiences.

Listen to this recording of our blog, Why You Need to Modernize and Integrate the SIS Across Campus, to learn more.

The student information system is a core technology solution on campus and should be integrated seamlessly with the other platforms.

Why You Need to Modernize and Integrate the SIS Across Campus

A modern SIS serves as the main component of the student lifecycle management system

Jenzabar Audiobook - Why You Need to Modernize and Integrate the SIS Across Campus

For college and university employees, 2021 was a much better year than 2020. The hundreds of thousands of jobs that were lost in the early days of the pandemic slowly came back. But something has shifted in 2022; schools are not only struggling to fill vacant positions, but they are also struggling to retain current staff and faculty. The issue is so pervasive that many institutions are worried about their ability to continue business as usual. They know they need to find a solution to this employment crisis fast.  

This audiobook examines the ways in which modern technology and single-vendor ERP solutions can help institutions address the employment crisis.

Listen to this recording of our blog, How Modern Tech Can Address the Higher Education Employment Crisis, to learn more.

Modern, unified technology platforms can help institutions increase efficiency, cut costs, and stay agile.

How Modern Tech Can Address the Higher Education Employment Crisis

Jenzabar Audiobook - How Modern Tech Can Address the Higher Education Employment Crisis

Personalized learning journeys are widely considered to be the future of higher education, especially as technology evolves and offers even more opportunities for customization. Adaptive learning, immersive learning, and CBE programs will likely gain traction in higher education going forward, especially in a post-COVID-19 world in which institutions are more familiar with the ins and outs of online learning programs.

Listen to this recording of our blog, Personalized Learning in Higher Ed May Be the Norm Going Forward, to learn more.

Personalized learning programs often support more flexible experiences and encourage better student engagement.

Personalized Learning in Higher Ed May Be the Norm Going Forward

Jenzabar Audiobook - Personalized Learning in Higher Ed May Be the Norm Going Forward

To grow their student body and their campus alongside an expanding industry, healthcare institutions need a strong recruitment strategy. They’ll also need a student information system that is specifically designed for them, one that is scalable and can track healthcare records, licensing and credentials, and rotations. As your institution determines its next move, consider moving away from legacy systems and toward a platform that meets your long-term needs.

Listen to this recording of our blog, Is Your Institution Prepared For the Healthcare Boom, to learn more.

The healthcare industry is growing, the demand for skilled employees is rising, and student interest in healthcare is increasing. Are you ready?

Is Your Institution Prepared For the Healthcare Boom?

As the healthcare industry continues to boom, student interest in the healthcare fields seems to be increasing.

Jenzabar Audiobook - Is Your Institution Prepared For the Healthcare Boom

Is Your Institution Prepared For the Healthcare Boom

By helping HR departments quickly fill open positions and giving faculty and staff transparent, easy access to employment information, modern HCM systems eliminate many organizational issues and help create a more positive and stable campus culture.

Listen to this recording of our blog, Why Modern HCM Systems Are a Core Component of Today’s Higher Education ERPs, to learn more.

Modern HCM systems can speed up the hiring process and improve employee retention across campus.

Why Modern HCM Systems Are a Core Component of Today’s Higher Education ERPs

Modern HCM Systems Can Speed Up the Hiring Process and Improve Employee Retention

Jenzabar Audiobook - Why Modern HCM Systems Are a Core Component of Today’s Higher Education ERPs

Retention is a huge priority in higher education. The overall undergraduate student dropout rate is 40%, and 30% of annual dropouts are college freshmen who leave before sophomore year. To better understand the trends impacting these rates, and to better address those trends and increase student retention, institutions need to implement modern retention systems and strategies.

Innovative retention software can help institutions set up student tracking and enable early alerts so the right departments on campus can enact the appropriate intervention strategies. Many of these systems are meant to break through campus silos, allowing faculty and staff to share student information with those who can help.

Listen to this recording of our blog, The Importance of Student Retention Software in Higher Ed Today, to learn more.

To truly address enrollment challenges, institutions need to apply the same amount of effort to retain students as they do when recruiting them.

How Important Is Student Retention Software in Higher Ed Today?

Jenzabar Audiobook - The Importance of Student Retention Software in Higher Ed Today

The Importance of Student Retention Software in Higher Ed Today

The easier it is for students to apply to your institution, the more likely it is that they will. Career and technical programs actively seeking a more robust student information system should look for solutions that uncomplicate the admissions process and cater to their specific type of institution. To actively recruit new learners, they’ll need a system that enables a more personalized, flexible education experience.

Listen to this recording of our blog, Why Career and Technical Schools Should Boost Recruitment Efforts Now, to learn more.

With the right technology, career and technical schools can respond to shifting education trends and grow their institutions.

Why Career and Technical Schools Should Boost Recruitment Efforts Now

With the right technology, career and technical schools can respond to shifting education and employment trends, boost enrollments, and grow their institutions.

Jenzabar Audiobook - Why Career and Technical Schools Should Boost Recruitment Efforts Now

Smaller institutions can take huge steps that can give them a competitive advantage and introduce new opportunities to attract and retain students more effectively. Technology, especially the student information system, will play a vital role in this process, but institutional leaders must also be sure they adopt the right mindset and mentality to embrace modern learning models.

Listen to this recording of our blog, 6 Tips for Small and Specialized Schools in the New Normal, to learn more.

Discover how your institution can better support and engage digital-native students in an increasingly demanding environment.

6 Tips For Small and Specialized Schools in the New Normal

Here are six tips that can help smaller schools transform their campuses to better support and engage students digitally.

Jenzabar Audiobook - 6 Tips For Small and Specialized Schools in the New Normal

For students, taking short, focused credentialing courses means they can quickly obtain the specific training they need in order to succeed in their desired career field. By offering these lower-cost, tightly focused programs, institutions can re-emphasize the value of higher education and its role in helping individuals get the job of their dreams.

Listen to this recording of our blog, The Rise in Micro-Credentialing: Why Universities Should Take Note, to learn more about how implementing micro-credentialing programs can open new opportunities for institutions of all types and sizes.

Micro-credentialing has become incredibly popular for students who want skills in specific areas, which represents an opportunity for institutions.

The Rise in Micro-Credentialing: Why Universities Should Take Note

Learn how implementing micro-credentialing programs can open new opportunities for institutions of all types and sizes.

Jenzabar Audiobook - The Rise in Micro-Credentialing: Why Universities Should Take Note

Institutions that can make the financial aid process easier, faster, and less daunting will likely experience more success with retaining existing students. Further, institutions can also personalize financial aid to improve retention rates and encourage students to return year after year. For example, institutions can incentivize returning students with rewarding and relevant financial aid packages to improve retention and decrease attrition.

In this audiobook, we cover some of the factors why financial aid is important in helping institutions achieve their retention goals.

Listen to this recording of our blog, How Institutions Can Use Financial Aid to Drive Student Retention, to learn more.

Institutions that offer accurate and timely financial aid packages can increase the number of students who return year after year and support positive student outcomes.

How Institutions Can Use Financial Aid to Drive Student Retention

Jenzabar Audiobook - How Institutions Can Use Financial Aid to Drive Student Retention

Learners are seeking access to affordable, flexible courses and credentialing programs that cater to their specific schedules and desired outcomes. By unbundling the traditional degree program experience, colleges and universities may allow learners to earn degree-bearing credits from multiple sources and institutions, thereby curating their own course of study and personalizing their education to their skillsets, passions, and career goals. This may represent an untapped opportunity for institutions of higher education to partner with new organizations to deliver satisfying and rewarding experiences. 

Listen to this recording of our blog, Is Unbundling the Future of Higher Education?, to learn more about what the future of higher education may hold.

With learners questioning their return on education investment, institutions may consider dismantling the college experience and delivering it in components.

Is Unbundling the Future of Higher Education?

As the pandemic rolls on and institutions face the latest enrollment numbers, many colleges are now beginning to wonder: Is unbundling the degree program the future of higher education?

Jenzabar Audiobook - Is Unbundling the Future of Higher Education?

Based on the widening skills gap, income disparity, and cost-to-value of a college degree, students will most likely enroll in schools that provide the job and life skills necessary to thrive in today’s digital world. While larger institutions may be able to withstand—initially, at least—the challenges facing most higher education, smaller colleges should consider offering educational experiences that are hybrid, bite-sized, and personalized to better serve changing student expectations.

Listen to this recording of our blog, Peering Into the Future of Higher Education: What Will Students Want?, to learn more.

Today’s shrinking revenues and declining enrollments suggest that many students are questioning the value of a four-year education.

Peering Into the Future of Higher Education: What Will Students Want?

Today’s shrinking revenues and declining enrollments suggest that students are questioning the value of a four-year education.

Jenzabar Audiobook - Peering Into the Future of Higher Education

ERP systems, which form the operational backbone of higher education institutions, are transforming and opening opportunities for colleges and universities to reduce costs and optimize processes using automation, analytics, and more. Looking forward, ongoing changes in the ERP market may set the pace for even further innovation and cost efficiencies in higher education.

In this audiobook, we cover four core ERP trends that are impacting higher education institutions today.

The unification of ERP and student information systems.

A growing need to focus on student experiences.

Listen to this recording of our blog, Four New Higher Ed ERP Trends, to learn more.

Higher education ERP systems continue to evolve, pushing growth in the industry.

Jenzabar Audiobook - Four New Higher Ed ERP Trends

The COVID-19 pandemic will likely leave a lasting impression on higher education institutions, pressuring them to transform how they approach student engagement and retention. As challenges associated with increasing competition, declining enrollments, new financial pressures, and changing student demands continue to grow, now is the time to revitalize conventional retention initiatives.

Here are some tips that institutions can follow to refocus their retention strategies.

Remove existing barriers to re-enrollment.

Build and nurture a "sense of belonging” for students.

Leverage modern technology that enables satisfying experiences.

Listen to this recording of our blog, 3 Tips to Invigorate Student Retention During COVID-19, to learn more.

Learn how to revitalize your retention strategies and tactics in a higher education environment transformed by the pandemic.

3 Tips to Invigorate Student Retention During COVID-19

Now is the time for institutions to revisit their student retention efforts to make sure that it accounts for longstanding challenges as well as new hurdles.

Jenzabar Audiobook - 3 Tips to Invigorate Student Retention During COVID-19

These days, when academic administrators get together, almost every conversation turns into a discussion around decreasing enrollments and declining revenue. Unfortunately, survey data suggests that these trendlines aren’t changing anytime soon. What can institutions do to survive?

Listen to this recording of our blog, The Complexities of Identifying Higher Ed’s Return on Investment Today, to learn more about what institutions can do to change how students view the value of higher education.

High costs, personalized experiences, online learning, and more impact how students view the value of higher education.

The Complexities of Identifying Higher Ed's Return on Investment Today

The Complexities of Identifying Higher Eds Return on Investment Today - Jenzabar

The definition and methods for achieving and enabling student success have changed over the years, shifting from the traditional belief that students are the primary party responsible for achieving their own success to the modern reality that institutions play a significant role in ensuring learners experience success according to the student's personal objectives. Exposition aside, enrolling future learners and retaining current students both lean heavily on perceived student outcomes, which means institutions must prioritize their student success initiatives.

Part of the challenge facing institutions is aligning the definition of student success across campus, as various stakeholders, departments, and cohorts all have their own ideologies. One of the best ways to ensure your students experience success is to take a top-down approach that understands the journey from a nascent student success program to a mature, wholly operational model.

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The importance of prioritizing student success as higher education's perceived value changes.

Identifying and aligning the core criteria that make up a student success initiative across campus.

The steps that can be taken to build and implement a mature student success program.

Recognizing and overcoming the traditional barriers to student success in higher education.

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Strengthen your student success initiatives by aligning definitions across campus and supporting a unified, long-term objective.

How to Break Down the Barriers to Student Success in Higher Education

Listen to our audiobook to learn more about how to strengthen your student success initiatives by aligning definitions across campus and supporting a unified, long-term objective.

How to Break Down the Barriers to Student Success in Higher Education - Jenzabar Audiobook

The decision to pursue higher education is weighed against a number of factors but often comes down to an individual's ability to pay for a college degree. Despite the unpredictable economy and many prospective learners challenging the pursuit of expensive post-secondary educations, institutions have an opportunity to improve student enrollment and retention by delivering competitive financial aid offers, which can tilt the scales by granting students monetary support.

Financial aid can include any combination of grants, scholarships, work-study jobs, and loans that provide funds for an individual’s college tuition and expenses. This white paper discusses how institutions can provide accurate, timely, and concise financial aid offers to attract new learners and encourage existing students to stay enrolled.

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The evolving role of financial aid and how to leverage it as a differentiator in higher education.

How offering timely and easy-to-understand financial aid offers can increase student enrollment.

How accurate and relevant financial aid packages can encourage students to return to campus.

How you can leverage student and institutional data to deliver highly competitive financial aid offers.

Discover how you can improve student enrollment and retention by offering accurate and timely financial aid packages.

How Financial Aid Can Help Overcome Enrollment and Retention Challenges

Listen to our audiobook to learn how financial aid can help overcome enrollment and retention challenges.

How Financial Aid Can Help Overcome Enrollment and Retention Challenges - Jenzabar Audiobook

The percentage of "new students" applying to four-year higher education institutions is growing. These students, who are over the age of 25 and often have families and full-time jobs, are asking institutions to provide them with more accommodating, flexible learning opportunities.

To meet the growing demand for less rigid learning processes, institutions are beginning to consider implementing competency-based education (CBE) programs. CBE programs can be a draw for institutions as they allow students to learn at their own pace and focus on demonstrating skills and subject matter mastery, things that are useful to employers.

How offering CBE programs can help grow your institution. 

The positive impact of CBE on enrollment and retention rates. 

Ways to implement a CBE program to support student goals and student success.

How the right technology can help you implement an effective CBE program.

Providing students with an accommodating, skills-based learning environment can drive student enrollment and improve success rates. 

How Competency-Based Education Can Help Attract New Students and Ensure Their Success

Listen to our audiobook to learn why offering flexible learning avenues like CBE can help you attract new students and promote long-term success.

How Competency-Based Education Can Help Attract New Students and Ensure Their Success - Jenzabar

When COVID-19 forced colleges and universities online, many institutions continued classes by quickly implementing new technology. As the pandemic wore on, it became evident that institutions would need to implement modern technology systems and rethink operational processes, communication strategies, and enrollment and recruitment tactics if they wanted to support students and remain successful.

Listen to the recording of our blog, The New Digital Campus: A Modern Approach to Higher Education, to learn more about the characteristics of a digital campus and what it takes to enable this type of ecosystem today.

As colleges and universities look to the future, how can the digital campus play a role in their success?

The New Digital Campus: A Modern Approach to Higher Education

Listen to our audiobook recording to learn more about the characteristics of a digital campus and what it takes to enable this type of ecosystem.

The New Digital Campus: A Modern Approach to Higher Education - Audiobook


A key theme at the 2021 EDUCAUSE conference was how pre-pandemic IT concerns have grown into overwhelming obstacles. Institutions today face far greater challenges than in previous years, challenges that threaten their students’ success and their institutional viability. 

In the inaugural episode of the Jenzabar Podcast, industry expert and founding director of The Campus Computing project Casey Green is joined by Jenzabar senior executives Jeff Elliott, Carina Ganias, and Meghan Turjanica to discuss what colleges and universities can do today to survive tomorrow. 

Listen to this episode of the Jenzabar Podcast to hear how institutions can address their questions regarding digital transformation.

How can new technologies empower students?

How should institutions balance the return to normal with the need for digital transformation?

How can schools leverage data to better understand the pandemic’s short-term and long-term impact?

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How can institutions apply lessons learned from the pandemic to their digital transformation initiatives?

Led by industry expert Casey Green, our inaugural podcast features Jenzabar experts and dives into key themes featured at the EDUCAUSE 2021 conference.