By Jeremy Tiers, Senior Director of Admissions Services 5 minute read Over the past two years, our ongoing survey research with students has revealed that a greater number are becoming comfortable receiving text messages from colleges and universities during their search. Let me give …
Time To Stop Doing These Two Things?
By Jeremy Tiers, Director of Admissions Services 3 minute read If you’re reading today’s article, connecting and engaging with teenagers and other young people is probably a core part of your job. Both can definitely be a challenge. A big reason why is the words and language that get …
Wow! Are Your Communications Making Them Feel Like This?
By Jeremy Tiers, Director of Admissions Services "I got through 10 lines of the handbook and just put it down because it became so frustrating and overwhelming at times.” That quote came from San Antonio Spurs forward DeMar DeRozan last week when he was asked about the 113-page health …
Stop Using These Phrases During Phone Calls (and in emails and texts)
By Jeremy Tiers, Director of Admissions Services Considering how hard it is to get and keep the attention of young people these days, it’s important to know which words and phrases to avoid. Over the past few years I’ve shared many of them with you, but there are two phrases that a …
Are Your Communications Wearing Them Out?
By Jeremy Tiers, Director of Admissions Services The world we live in is full of choices. We’re all getting marketed to daily from so many different directions that our brains quickly get tired. Add in the growth of social networking apps and the fact that just about everybody’s …
Avoid Saying This in Your Emails, Calls and Texts
By Jeremy Tiers, Director of Admissions Services Words matter. Words compel us to do things, and they also bore us to the point where we stop paying attention or listening. This is especially true for every prospective student that you’re trying to enroll right now…traditional undergrad or …