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The article discusses the strengths and weaknesses of both the traditional and the innovative approach models of student affairs practices. According to Kathleen Manning, a professor of higher education at the University of Vermont, the models of student affairs practice should depend on the institution's mission and population. Moreover, after she identified and classified the models during her research on the campuses for her project, the Documenting Effective Educational Practices (DEEP), she stated that these models are unique, they have their own advantages and drawbacks.

Forecasts the changes that will affect higher education enrollment in the U.S. Estimated number of student enrollment by 2012; Forecasted states where higher education enrollment will increase; Increase in the number of Hispanic and Asian students; Decrease in the number of white students; Decrease in federal and state government funding for higher education; Use of student retention as a gauge for evaluating colleges and universities; Decrease in international student enrollment due to the September 11, 2001 tragedy.

The article explores the findings of the "Class Difference$: Online Education in the United States, 2010," report of The Babson Survey Research Group and The Sloan Consortium. It cites that an increasing number of institutions considers online education critical to their long-term strategy. It explores the increase of online enrollments compared to the higher education population. It further notes that the future growth of online education will come from institutions having online offerings.

The article discusses the move of black college Arkansas Baptist College to implement a five-step approach to expand enrollment. It reports that the college has to contend with the other colleges and universities as it exhibited fewer than 200 students and risky financial stability in May 2006. It enumerates that the expanded strategy includes recruitment, restoration, remediation, retention, and responsibility. It notes that the college has decided to further its enrollment by concentrating to the populations that have been found unrecruited by area colleges. An overview of the five-step approach for replicating student population is also discussed.

The article focuses on the 25 essential questions for enrollment managers, that can help institutions create enrollment management programs that suit its specific needs. According to Marguerite Dennis, vice president of enrollment and international programs at Suffolk University in Boston, colleges and universities cannot take a cookie-cutter approach to building an enrollment management program. During an online seminar, Dennis said that no one has established with absolute certainty why students select to enroll at a particular college or why they leave. Of the 25 essential questions it include what enrollment problems has the school had in the past, how did the school respond to the problem, and what was the result.

Several charts are presented that list the amount needed to pay the instructor or other course designer in developing a course according to the enrollment level of the school, type of school, and availability of off-campus or on-campus students.

The article presents the insights of EducationDynamics senior vice president of market research services Carol Aslanian regarding the groups that higher education institutions should know in order to market at the 25 years and above population for the 2011 enrollment in the U.S. Aslanian imparts that asking current students of what brought them to the institution is important for it provides hints on how to become marketable. She notes that competitors are also a better source of information.

The article offers news briefs related to the school industry. The Community College Research Center at Columbia University (CCRC) has released findings from its study on how students experience student success courses. According to the U.S. Education Department's released projections of education statistics, enrollment at a degree-granting institutions of higher education will increase to more than 20 million by 2017. A new College Access & Opportunity Guide is college guidebook aimed at traditionally underrepresented and underserved populations. It features more than 225 colleges and universities that provide access and retention programs for first-generation, low-income, and minoriy college-bound students.

The article discusses the report from "Baltimore Sun" on its June 22 issue that mentions that changes in enrollment strategies of Maryland's private four-year colleges are related to economic conditions. It mentions that one of the strategy of the college is to release more applicants from waiting lists to increase application numbers without lowering perceptions of institutional selectivity. It sites an example for Goucher College that aims to enroll sixty students from approximately 70 students from its waiting list.

The article presents the college paper "Student Mobility & Credit Transfer: A National and Global Survey," published by the Educational Policy Institute. It mentions that the paper discusses how postsecondary credit is a form of knowledge currency. It explains how it affects students mobility and enrollment decisions. The paper focuses on education in Canada. The article also mentions that the paper includes information on student mobility and credit transfer systems in the Great Britain, Australia, New Zealand and the U.S.

The article reports on the study conducted by Heather Ranck of U.S. Commercial Service Education, which aims to rank variety of non-U.S. countries according to market indicators of readiness to partner in a distance learning behavior. After considering several market indicators such as English speaking population and demand for distance education, Ranck has come up with top ten countries that are most receptive to distance education partnership, including Canada, Great Britain, and Australia.

The article offers news related to higher education in the U.S. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan wanted to increase interest among and matriculation of women but wanted to avoid obvious segment-driven marketing, avoid making a diversity initiative where the targeted constituency can often feel talked down to. According to the Community College Research Center at Columbia University, there are more than 10 million community college students currently enrolled in the country and just under 50 percent of all credit-earning undergraduates are in community colleges.

The article reports on a survey about the biggest challenges that affect collegiate enrollment managers. It was conducted by Eduventures, a research and consulting firm. According to the results of the survey, the greatest challenges are affordability, diversity and enrollment strategy. Concerns of public and private research universities, who responded to this survey, were making certain the affordability and managing tuition costs, attaining diversity goals for students and establishing an institutional "brand." The author shares that the responses interprets a change in focus from tactical bread-and-butter enrollment issues to finances and strategy.

Examines the impact of excluding race as a factor in college admission decisions on school enrollment in California, Florida and Texas. End of the affirmative action in the states higher education admissions programs; Decrease in the African-American applications by 40 percent; Decline of 45 percent in black enrollment.