A few weeks ago, a user posted to the r/ApplyingToCollege subreddit asking fellow Redditors which schools’ application portals stood out, and the responses were exactly what you’d expect from Reddit: a blend of useful insights and brutal honesty, all seasoned with a heavy dose of attitude. (By the way, if you aren’t monitoring r/ApplyingToCollege, you’re…Read more
Tag: Enrollment Management
Virtual Research, Real-Life Meaning
As part of our continued research and discovery efforts, we’ve been holding virtual Circles of Influence for clients, via Zoom. Circles is a proprietary research method that is a variation on the idea of a focus group in which a pivotal student tells the story of their journey at a college or university through their…Read more
Rick Bailey Serves Love on Servant Marketer Podcast
On Dec. 9, 2020, RHB principal Rick Bailey joined Jenny Petty, Director of Enrollment Marketing at the University of Wyoming (soon to be Vice President for Marketing at the University of Montana) and host of The Servant Marketer podcast. In the Season One finale, Rick and Jenny discuss falling in love with our customers, delivering…Read more
Slate and the LEGO Rexplorer: The Art of the Expert Build
My seven-year-old put it on my desk just to the right of my laptop. It has been there for about two weeks—Rex’s Rexplorer—occupying a prominent spot on display and in my mind throughout my workday. If you don’t have young kids and you aren’t a kid at heart, Rex’s Rexplorer is a battle vehicle from…Read more
Transcript: Build a Better Instance with RHB: Configurable Joins “Setting the Foundation: Configurable Joins Concepts and Basics”
“Give yourself permission to experiment, to be patient, to take your time and to think about the same work you’ve been doing, but in a new way.” Sound like music to your overworked ears? That bit of wisdom comes from RHB Slate Integration Consultant John Michael Cuccia. He, along with RHB Senior Integration Consultants Megan…Read more
Build a Better Instance Part One: Configurable Joins Fundamentals
On February 2, 2021, nearly 450 members of the Slate user community joined team members Abraham Noel, Domenick Rozzi, John Michael Cuccia and Megan Miller for the first webinar in our new series, Build a Better Instance with RHB: Configurable Joins. In “Setting the Foundation: Configurable Joins Concepts and Basics”, the team walked through the…Read more
Why an Anthropologist Chose RHB
Why is there a linguistic anthropologist at RHB? Now that I have just about reached my one-year workaversary at RHB, I guess I have enough perspective on why I am here to answer that question from my position as said anthropologist. I have pursued a variety of professions that allowed me to learn about others’…Read more
An Upside to 2020: Greater Focus on Positionality
While the uncertainty of the year 2020 brought discomfort and grief, we gained the opportunity to think differently about our systems and our culture. As a former academic advisor, I welcome this challenge to stretch. I bring five years of professional and graduate higher education experience to my role as a Client Success Coordinator with…Read more
Personalize and Streamline Your Slate Communications with Deliver
RHB’s Senior Integration Consultant Megan Miller brings together her Slate expertise and experience as a university communications director to drop some great advice about using Deliver to make sending personalized, streamlined communications that are well received—and about making the process smoother for your whole team. As she says, “The fundamental truth is that we can’t…Read more
Seeking Seamless Modalities: Revisited in 2021
I originally formulated this post in–what will now be described as–better times in many ways. Of course, market forces were present at the time, the very ones that informed my perspective. I had returned from assignments on multiple campuses where the organizing principles were built and duplicated by delivery method. “Online” had its own organization,…Read more