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Removing barriers to student re-enrollment

Posted: Sat Dec 21, 2024 4:30 am
by Aklima@41
The decline in enrollment is encouraging colleges and universities to look beyond the traditional pool of high school graduates. Where are they looking? The 36 million people who attended college but failed to earn a degree.

Stopouts—students who have dropped out of higher education—are a potential source of enrollment. But attracting this particular group to return to school isn’t without its challenges. Here’s how schools are welcoming students back to campus.

Demystifying the re-registration process
One of the most obvious, yet overlooked ways your school can increase re-enrollments is to make it look easy to do.

Another task on the calendar is a headache-inducing one, especially when you have no idea what you’re getting into. The Atlantic calls this administrative frustration the “ time tax .” And higher education institutions are big purveyors of it. As humans, we’ve become so accustomed to seemingly simple processes wasting our time and leading us into a nightmare of phone calls and paperwork. So when faced with a potential time drain, we take the easy way out: We do nothing at all.

It's a problem that top-performing colleges small business email list and universities are actively combating through automation.

How Digital Process Automation Increases Higher Education Efficiency
The best way to reduce the hidden “time tax” in your re-registration process is to refine your back-office processes.


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Slow and poorly managed tasks add to the mental gymnastics that students who drop out of school must perform to re-enroll. Automation for higher education can reduce the time investment barrier by making things faster to do.

Researchers at Ernst & Young found that workflow automation can reduce process touchpoints at a large university. This time savings trickles down to students, creating a more user-friendly experience for potential re-enrollees. You’ll find automation supporting campus-wide processes such as .