Strengthening Yield Communications to Prevent Summer Melt Webcast Recording

Last updated August 15, 2016

Strengthening Yield Communications to Prevent Summer Melt Webcast Recording

Last updated August 15, 2016

Overview

Learn fresh ideas for how you can communicate with deposited students to prevent summer melt and increase yield at your institution. During the webcast, you will learn how to:

  • Make your yield communications more successful
  • Use print, digital, and social media channels as tools to prevent summer melt
  • Educate and mobilize cross-campus partners to create a more seamless strategy

Throughout this training, you will see numerous examples of effective yield communications. These examples, combined with a practically-focused presentation, will help you apply what you learn to your own institutional context.

Who should attend?

Enrollment Management, Admissions, Enrollment Marketing, and Orientation and Transition professionals who oversee planning for anti-summer melt communications between the Deposit and Enrollment stages will benefit from this webcast.

Agenda

  • Anti-Summer Melt Communication Strategy: An Overview
    • Auditing your summer-melt strategy
    • Managing summer melt based on student profile: how institutions differ
    • Identifying common stop-out points and hurdles in the student journey
    • Coordinating with and educating cross-campus partners
    • Learning from research-based best practices
  • Communications, Channels, and Institutional Examples
    • Techniques for targeting highest-risk populations
    • The role of predictive analytics
    • Texting
    • Email
    • Social media
    • The role of orientation events
    • Institutional examples