Diversifying Revenue
Today, organizations of college are being motivated and pushed to think successfully about expanding and developing new income resources to support the their short-term and long-term goals. Keystone recruitment process has defined in its released reports how every traditional income stream for universities is experiencing some sort of stress.
Unfortunately, stress on all income resources and resources is the result of macro-level economic, technical and legal action changes, and these changes are mostly beyond the control of organizations.
The Sultry experts have informed that income resources will never flow as robustly as they did before 2008. It’s been stated the change will need a fundamental change in how universities operate; one that will need an ideal thinking.
In their research, keystone notices that universities will have to depend on ideal management that is willing to deal with these difficulties through the better use of technology to cut costs, create the performance in their functions, illustrate value, achieve out to untouched marketplaces, and focus on its programs. However, in doing so, many of these efforts may create disputes with faculty members or other institutional constituents, unless they are able to get the collective buy-in that has been the staple of higher education governance. But with goals being established and the evolution taking place as part of the process, hopefully, there will be a more widespread understanding on all sides.
Major revenue constraints can be attributed to larger changes in the economic landscape, including lower household incomes, changes and fluctuations in the economic and federal government picture, declines in the number of high school graduates, the emergence of new technologies, and a growing interest in getting the most out of a college education – particularly as it pertains to employment after graduation. A stable fiscal picture and outlook would require improved pricing power, a sustained and truly measured decrease in the unemployment rate, improvements in the housing market, and several years of consistent stock market returns.
The traditional higher education model has been disrupted by the ability of massive open online courses, particularly by the legitimization of online education and other technological innovations. In many ways, this has signaled a fundamental shift in strategy by industry leaders to embrace these technological changes that threaten to destabilize the residential college and university’s business model over the long run.
There are other related challenges facing higher education: the growing profile of student debt, which has topped $1 trillion nationally, and default rates, and pressure on politicians and accreditation agencies to ensure the value of degrees. In addition, an alarm continues to sound over a potential student loan bubble and the diminishing affordability of higher education.
One way for colleges and universities to get students, and their parents, to pay for higher tuition is by demonstrating that the outcomes – including their campus experience, postgraduate employment, graduate school enrollment, and long-term success and happiness – are well worth the tuition and future job pay.
Traditionally, colleges and universities address student recruitment and retention by increasing marketing efforts. This may be in the form of utilizing additional marketing channels, allocating additional budget for traditional and social media, and more. Schools may expand on their target audience, targeting prospects at work and at home, using direct marketing, phone calls, social media channels, print and online advertising, and devoting additional spend to lead aggregators. However, additional outreach doesn’t always equate to more leads. Rather, schools need to know more about the students they are targeting.