Entries Tagged as '2006 - Volume II - Issue I'

Sunday, January 1st, 2006

House Defeats HHS-Spending Bill; University Still Receives Funding

Louis Dupart
Partner
Fleishman and Walsh, LLP
“In a stunning setback for House GOP leaders, a $142.5 billion FY06 Labor-HHS appropriations bill went down to a 224-209 defeat this afternoon,” reported the National Journal in the November 17, 2005 issue of Congress Daily. 
The Labor-HHS Bill is the principal bill […]

Sunday, January 1st, 2006

Leveraging and Predictive Modeling in Financial Aid

Dr. Scott D. Miller
President
Wesley College
Leveraging formulas and predictive modeling programs have become popular in recent years. Using historic trends, tracking individual characteristics of aid recipients and calculating conversions and yields can be useful. College and university administrators should be cautious, however, when purchasing such services.
Financial aid […]

Sunday, January 1st, 2006

Advertising Versus Direct Marketing for Recruitment

Douglas E. Clark
Vice President of Enrollment Management
Ferrum College
Enrollment managers are, with the possible exception of those with unlimited budgets, confronted with the need to make choices about how their marketing dollars are spent. When resources are scarce, it is important to maximize the results from every marketing dollar. 
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