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What Drives Student Choices? Applying Behavioral Economics to Higher Education

Senior Research Associate Roland Stark and Senior Vice President Tara Scholder examine methods of evaluating student priorities in the college [...]

College Decision Impact Survey: Students’ College Preferences and Plans in the 2011 Admissions Cycle

Maguire Associates and Fastweb announced the findings of the College Decision Impact Survey:  Students’ College Preferences and Plans in the 2011 [...]

The Second Wave of Consumer Transparency in Higher Education

Sarah Parrott, Senior Consultant, and Jessica McWade, Executive Vice President, discuss how colleges and universities can use the Net Price Calculator (NPC) for their [...]

Is Retention Really a Top Priority at Our Colleges and Universities? Summary of Results from the 2010 Leadership Retention Survey

Maguire Associates released the final results of the national survey administered to college and university leaders to learn how institutions [...]

Transforming Internal Identity in Challenging Times: Implications for External Image Building

Jessica McWade, Senior Vice President of Strategy, Communication & Development at Maguire Associates, examines how tough times can become an [...]

Student Experience Assessment

Linda Cox Maguire, Executive Vice President at Maguire Associates, and Tara Scholder, Senior Vice President for Research Operations, discuss best [...]

College and University Enrollment Officials: Experiences and Attitudes

Maguire Associates conducted a landmark study of college and university enrollment managers that was the basis of a series of [...]

Tuition Discounting Goes Global

Sarah Parrott, Senior Consultant at Maguire Associates, discusses tuition discounting and its applicability to non-US institutions in a paper prepared [...]

College and University Governing Board Members: Experiences and Attitudes

Maguire Associates conducted a landmark study of college and university trustees which was the basis of a series of articles [...]

High School Teachers’ and College Faculty Members’ Perceptions of Students’ Preparedness for College

Maguire Associates conducted a study of high school teachers and college and university faculty members to assess the preparedness of [...]

Applying the Power of Video Publishing in the Recruitment Cycle

Kathy Dawley, President of Maguire Associates, and coauthors, Mary Pat Nolan, Director of Admissions at Saint Mary’ College, and Ken [...]

The Burden of Financing College – A Family Affair

How students and their parents distribute the responsibility for financing college and how this impacts their willingness to pay for [...]

How Candidates for Admission Would Select Themselves. If They Could…

Maguire Associates and NRCCUA examine the high school student perspective on what dimensions should receive the most weight in college [...]

Latest & Greatest

  • Linda Cox Maguire, Vice Chair of Maguire Associates, brings an American perspective to a discussion of the latest developments in higher education in the United Kingdom.  She weighs in on the debate over tuition fees and value in the Times Higher Education article, “A weather eye on the US storm.”

  • email hidden; JavaScript is required of our most recent compendium, Insights for a Changing Economy; Vol. 3 (’10-’11).   This edition includes the complete Five Dysfunctions of Enrollment Management series.

  •  Jack Maguire, Chairman of Maguire Associates, discusses “best practices” for boosting student satisfaction and improving retention in a recent online seminar entitled Improve Student Retention with Data-Driven Decisions.  He is joined by John Rome from Arizona State University.  Click here to listen to the webinar.