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The Alumni Program That Measured Joy

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Pulse Check: What Do We Really Need? — Pt 4

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Does AI Traffic Actually Convert Better in Higher Ed?

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Pulse Check: What Do We Really Need? — Pt 3

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Higher Ed Needs Leaders Who Are Used to Disruption

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Pulse Check: What Do We Really Need? — Pt 2

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Inside the Index Tracking 200K Student Prompts

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Pulse Check: What Do We Really Need? — Pt 1

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What Rising CMOs Are Rarely Taught

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Pulse Check: The Value of Higher Ed: Spoiler Alert, It's More than ROI — Pt 4

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Should Colleges Be on Snapchat?

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Pulse Check: The Value of Higher Ed: Spoiler Alert, It's More than ROI — Pt 3

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Pulse Check: Understanding The Modern Student Journey — Pt. 4

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How to Make the Case for Your Best Idea

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Pulse Check: The Value of Higher Ed: Spoiler Alert, It's More than ROI — Pt 2

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What Comes After CMO?

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Pulse Check: The Value of Higher Ed: Spoiler Alert, It's More than ROI — Pt 1

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How AI Decides Which University Has the Best Alumni Network

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Video Without a Plan Is Wasted Money

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Is Higher Ed Deploying AI Backwards?

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Pulse Check: Understanding The Modern Student Journey — Pt. 3

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What Your Chief of Staff Knows That You Don't

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Pulse Check: Understanding The Modern Student Journey — Pt. 2

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Higher Ed's Hero Cycle

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Pulse Check: Understanding The Modern Student Journey — Pt. 1

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Who Owns AI Search?

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Pulse Check: Funnel Vision: One Campus, Two Markets — Part 4

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The Dashboard is the Last Place Your Enrollment Problem Shows Up

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Pulse Check: Funnel Vision: One Campus, Two Markets — Part 3

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Higher Ed's Fundraising Model Is Broken

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The LinkedIn Double Standard Costing Higher Ed Its Best Marketers

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Pulse Check: Funnel Vision: One Campus, Two Markets — Part 2

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Live from Engage Summit 2026: Conference First Impressions from Carrie Phillips and Brian Piper

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The Real Reason Higher Ed Mergers Fail

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Pulse Check: Funnel Vision: One Campus, Two Markets — Part 1

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Reunited with Seth Odell

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Pulse Check: Your Guide to Engage Summit 2026

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The SUNY AI Mandate

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Google Search is AI Search: What May's I/O Announcement Means for Higher Ed

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Pulse Check: Tales from a Community College AI Think Tank — Part 3

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Before You Hire an AI Consultant, Do This

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Pulse Check: Tales from a Community College AI Think Tank — Part 2

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The 13 Milliseconds That Decide Your Enrollment Funnel

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Pulse Check: Tales from a Community College AI Think Tank — Part 1

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AI Faculty Avatars and a $10K MBA

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Pulse Check: High School to Higher Ed III (2026) — Part 4

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What Higher Ed Is Actually Hiring For

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Pulse Check: High School to Higher Ed III (2026) — Part 3

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From Brand Standards to Brand Systems: Kettering’s GPT Playbook

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Pulse Check: High School to Higher Ed III (2026) — Part 2

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Rethinking the Curriculum for an AI-Shaped World

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Pulse Check: High School to Higher Ed III (2026) — Part 1

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How AI Change Actually Happens on Campus

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Pulse Check: Helping Adult Learners Find the Right Program with AI [Lightning Session]

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The Higher Ed CMO Is Carrying a Broken System

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Pulse Check: Al For Application Fraud Detection [Lightning Session]

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What Campus Leaders Should Ask Before Renewal Season

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Pulse Check: How to Make AI Feel Human, Safe & Transparent [Lightning Session]

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Where Should You Spend Your Next Marketing Dollar?

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Pulse Check: Building AI-Powered Intelligence Briefs [Lightning Session]

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You’re Not Behind on Agentic AI

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Pulse Check: The Reputation Rethink — Pt. 5

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Career Progression in an AI-Shaped Job Market

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Pulse Check: The Reputation Rethink — Pt. 4

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Building AI Agents for Internal Teams

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Pulse Check: The Reputation Rethink — Pt. 3

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Graduating Into the AI Economy: A College Senior’s Perspective

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Pulse Check: The Reputation Rethink — Pt. 2

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Designing UGC as a Strategy

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Pulse Check: The Reputation Rethink — Pt. 1

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2026 Is the Breakout Year for Agentic AI

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Pulse Check: The Human Side: Managing Fear, Change, and Skepticism when it comes to AI — Part 5

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The Rise of the Fractional CMO

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Pulse Check: The Human Side: Managing Fear, Change, and Skepticism when it comes to AI — Part 4

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AI Won’t Save Higher Ed, Leadership Will

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Pulse Check: The Human Side: Managing Fear, Change, and Skepticism when it comes to AI — Part 3

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Not Every Game Is Winnable

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Pulse Check: The Human Side: Managing Fear, Change, and Skepticism when it comes to AI — Part 2

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Sora Is Good Enough to Be Dangerous

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Pulse Check: The Human Side: Managing Fear, Change, and Skepticism when it comes to AI — Part 1

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Everything AI Won’t Do For You in 2026

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The AI Conversations That Defined 2025

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Pulse Check: Building the Modern Campus - A Higher-Ed Project Management Playbook — Pt. 4

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Enabling the Longitudinal View: Rethinking Student Success in an AI Era

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Enrollify 2025 Hall of Fame: Harrison "Soup" Campbell

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Pulse Check: Building the Modern Campus - A Higher-Ed Project Management Playbook — Pt. 3

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Enrollify 2025 Hall of Fame: John Azoni

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AI According to an 8-Year-Old — Part 2

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Enrollify 2025 Hall of Fame: Marina Cooper

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Pulse Check: Building the Modern Campus - A Higher-Ed Project Management Playbook — Pt. 2

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Enrollify 2025 Hall of Fame: Sarah Russell

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AI According to an 8-Year-Old — Part 1

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Enrollify 2025 Hall of Fame: Carrie Pitts-Densmore

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Pulse Check: Building the Modern Campus - A Higher-Ed Project Management Playbook — Pt. 1

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Enrollify 2025 Hall of Fame: Faton Sopa

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The Enrollify Clubhouse: AMA’s Spiciest Panel

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If Broadway Can Do It, So Can You

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Pulse Check: First Movers — Part 3

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A Four-Step Framework for Testing Your College Website

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Pulse Check: First Movers — Part 2