The ConexED Blog

Case Management in Higher Ed: Boosting Graduation Rates and Student Success

Learn how case management in higher ed improves graduation rates by providing personalized student support, streamlining processes, and fostering student success.

Katie Bevilacqua

Enrollment, Recruitment, & Retention

Understanding the Enrollment Funnel: Stage 1 Awareness for Higher Education

Boost student enrollment by optimizing the awareness stage of the enrollment funnel. Learn strategies like web-integrated lead gen forms, targeted email campaigns, and automated text messaging to effectively capture and engage prospective students in higher education.

Gerald Mixon

Engagement

Student Engagement Platform for Higher Education

Discover how a student engagement platform like ConexED enhances student success and retention in higher education by simplifying communication, offering virtual engagement tools, and providing real-time data insights.

Brad Williams

Sr Marketing Manager

Enhancing Student Engagement for Directors, Coordinators, and Deans in Higher Education

Elevate student engagement and success with the ConexED platform, designed to foster meaningful campus connections. Discover how educational leaders can utilize ConexED to enrich the student experience through dynamic events, mentorship opportunities, and targeted communication.

Natalie Freese

Technology

4 Reasons ConexED is the Right CRM Pairing with Ellucian Banner

Discover how ConexED CRM integrates seamlessly with Ellucian Banner, providing real-time data synchronization, enhanced prospect management, and streamlined student engagement for community colleges.

Karen Cherrett

3 Ways to Reduce Your Colleges Administrative Burdens

Learn three effective ways to reduce administrative burdens in colleges using CRM solutions like ConexED. Discover strategies for automation, cross-department collaboration, and staff empowerment to create a more efficient and positive work environment.

Karen Cherrett

Technology

Selecting the Best Higher Education CRM for Your College

Find out how to choose the right Higher ED CRM solution for your college. Learn about defining functional requirements, managing costs, and the benefits of ConexED's efficient CRM approach for higher education.

Karen Cherrett

The Power of Hybrid Meetings to Better Serve Students

Explore how hybrid meetings using ConexED can enhance student engagement, accessibility, and personalized support in education. Learn how to create inclusive, flexible, and collaborative learning environments.

Abbe Breiter

Vice President, Partnerships

Enhancing Student Success: How ConexED Technology Boosts Enrollment, Persistence, and Completion Rates

Learn how ConexED technology enhances student success by improving enrollment, persistence, and completion rates in higher education. Discover tools for streamlined engagement and support.

Shane Bevilacqua

Technology

Identifying and Addressing Technology Challenges in Higher Education

Technology plays a central role in shaping higher education. While advancements in technology have introduced new possibilities for student engagement and institutional efficiency, they have also presented a host of challenges for colleges and universities.

Blake Johnson

CIO

Enrollment, Recruitment, & Retention

The Power of Versatility: Adapting to Change with Campus Anywhere

Adaptability in Higher Education has become more critical than ever. Institutions are confronted with a myriad of challenges, ranging from shifting demographics and evolving student preferences to unforeseen disruptions, such as the recent pandemic. To navigate these challenges successfully, institutions must embrace versatility and leverage innovative solutions.

Robert Brown

Top College Retention Strategies

College retention strategies can improve student success and graduation rates. Learn how virtual tools, data-driven insights, and streamlined processes can enhance student engagement and retention at your institution.

Gerald Mixon

Enrollment, Recruitment, & Retention

Outsmarting the Enrollment Cliff With Strategic Branding and Unprecedented Reach

The enrollment cliff has become a pressing concern for institutions across all of higher education. With its trackable ROI, 24/7 branding capabilities, and unmatched reach, Campus Anywhere is reshaping the landscape of student enrollment and retention in higher education.

Robert Brown

How Barstow Community College is Combating Food Insecurity Without Hiring More Staff

First the headlines: Food insecurity is becoming an epidemic for students struggling to make a better life by attending college In this new post-Covid world.

Katie Bevilacqua

Four Fast Facts About California’s New Basic Needs Program

After nearly 3 years of pandemic fallout, the Golden State of California has created the Basic Needs program which has the potential to serve struggling students in the most relevant way possible.

Katie Bevilacqua

Food Insecurity Crisis Being Combatted with Solutions from Ed Tech

There’s officially a crisis of food insecurity plaguing college students, and it’s on the rise nationally, with some 3 out of 5 students going hungry and being pushed closer to the dropout edge.

Katie Bevilacqua

Students get $130 million in Basic Needs boost from California Community Colleges

As the nation’s largest higher education system launches its new academic year, its millions of students and their families should know that the state of California and its partners have got their backs with a new and stronger safety net.

Tracy Gorham

How ConexED Helps Support College Food Pantries and CalFresh

Access to food pantries and CalFresh is essential for many California students and their families. Using ConexED, schools can manage CalFresh eligibility, food pantry pick-up schedules, and inventories all in one, easy-to-use platform.

Katie Bevilacqua

Educator, researcher, and writer based in Salt Lake City, UT

Instructional Strategies for Successful Virtual Lessons

Julie Stefan Lindsay

Enhancing Student Engagement for Directors, Coordinators, and Deans in Higher Education

Natalie Freese

3 Ways to Reduce Your Colleges Administrative Burdens

Karen Cherrett

How to Adapt Academic Advising to a Virtual Environment

Academic advisors adapt their approach based on the needs and strengths of individual students.

Abbe Breiter

10 Tips to Make Student Services More Visible, Flexible, & Accessible

A growing number of college students are working full time, caring for dependents, and taking classes online. And, in the era of COVID-19, they’re also dealing with anxiety about the future.

Katie Bevilacqua

Educator, researcher, and writer based in Salt Lake City, UT

Four More Instructional Strategies for Successful Virtual Lessons

In Part 1, we talked about four effective instructional strategies and ways to implement them in virtual settings.

Julie Stefan Lindsay

Educator, researcher, and writer based in Salt Lake City, UT

Five Tips for Hosting Effective Virtual Student Meetings

Virtual meetings provide a great opportunity to meet with students and diversify the circumstances in which to connect.

Julie Stefan Lindsay

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

WSU Tech Expands their Educational Equity Footprint by Purchasing Campus Anywhere Booths

Wichita State University – Campus of Applied Sciences and Technology has taken a big step towards addressing student equity on their campus.

Katie Bevilacqua

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Bringing Equity to HigherEd Through New ConexED Campus Anywhere

Discover how ConexED Campus Anywhere promotes equity in higher education by providing accessible digital tools and resources to support diverse student needs and enhance engagement.

Tracy Gorham

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Ensuring Educational Equity for LGBTQ+ Students

Nearly 50 years have passed since Congress signed Title IX into law prohibiting sex discrimination in federally-funded education programs. While steps toward inclusivity have improved dramatically since, members of the LGBTQ+ community continue to face challenges in education.

Katie Bevilacqua

What Is Student Retention and Why It Matters

What is student retention? Learn why it’s a vital metric for higher education, understand key challenges, and discover data-driven strategies that improve retention rates and support student success from admission to graduation

Tracy Gorham

ConexED awarded Best Educational Service in Utah!

The Best of State Awards were created to recognize outstanding individuals, organizations, and businesses throughout the state of Utah. This year, ConexED was recognized as the Best Educational Service!

Tracy Gorham

Addressing the Enrollment Cliff

Discover strategies for addressing the enrollment cliff, a projected decline in college enrollments by 2025, and explore actionable solutions to attract and retain students.

Katie Bevilacqua

Educator, researcher, and writer based in Salt Lake City, UT

Are Online Learning, Virtual Learning, E-Learning, Distance Learning, and Blended Learning the Same?

Learning online is a vast landscape. Most of us would describe learning online in one specific way: learning on a computer.

Julie Stefan Lindsay

Educator, researcher, and writer based in Salt Lake City, UT

Five Reasons Why FERPA is Important

Ensure FERPA compliance in your institution by understanding the importance of student privacy, secure data handling, and regulatory adherence. Learn how ConexED supports higher education with tools designed for FERPA-compliant communication and record-keeping.

Julie Stefan Lindsay

Special Programs & Services

Challenges of remote learning for students in special education

Established special education systems and language programs are mandatory on campuses nationwide, but the same level of support is not available online.

Abbe Breiter

Special Programs & Services

Supporting Students with Disabilities for Better Retention Rates

Discover proven strategies for improving student retention in higher education by supporting students with disabilities. Learn how accessibility fosters success!

Tracy Gorham

Case Management in Higher Ed: Boosting Graduation Rates and Student Success

Learn how case management in higher ed improves graduation rates by providing personalized student support, streamlining processes, and fostering student success.

Katie Bevilacqua

The Power of Hybrid Meetings to Better Serve Students

Abbe Breiter

Vice President, Partnerships

Enhancing Student Success: How ConexED Technology Boosts Enrollment, Persistence, and Completion Rates

Learn how ConexED technology enhances student success by improving enrollment, persistence, and completion rates in higher education. Discover tools for streamlined engagement and support.

Shane Bevilacqua

Top College Retention Strategies

Gerald Mixon

Caring Through Connection: How Institutions Can Build Meaningful Relationships with Students

Explore effective student engagement strategies using the ConexED platform. Learn how higher education institutions can build meaningful relationships with students through personalized support, seamless communication, and tailored engagement approaches.

Robert Brown

Putting Students First: Prioritizing Student Needs With Innovative Solutions

To truly address student needs, we must first recognize the challenges they commonly face. While every student is unique, three recurring needs emerge across higher education:

Robert Brown

The Importance of Human-Centered Technology in Higher Education

As technology continues to play a crucial role in higher education, it is imperative for college leaders to prioritize technology solutions that are centered around students and the human connection. Learn how ConexED's solutions are enhancing the human connection in education technology.

Robert Brown

Educator, researcher, and writer based in Salt Lake City, UT

Increasing Student Success through Social-Emotional Learning

Witnessing the value of social-emotional learning (SEL) over the course of the last decade, SEL has quickly become the topic of online education discussion groups, teaching manuals and scholastic articles the world over.

Julie Stefan Lindsay

7 Dos and Don’ts Student Success Tools for Post-Pandemic Teaching

A year after the worldwide spread of Covid-19, The Chronicle of Higher Education offers valuable insight on ways to improve the remote student experience.

Abbe Breiter

The impact of case management on graduation

Discover how case management in higher education enhances student success by improving graduation rates through personalized support, early alerts, and engagement strategies with ConexED's tools.

Katie Bevilacqua