Facing an Enrollment Challenge? We’re Here to Help.
Claim your complimentary working session with a member of Carnegie’s Enrollment Strategy team at this year’s UPCEA Annual Conference in New Orleans, Louisiana!
Sign up for a 30-minute personalized session with one of our experts to think through some of your most pressing online enrollment challenges:
- We’re launching new online programs and want to build a go-to-market plan that drives early momentum.
- Our existing programs have plateaued—how do we reignite growth and optimize performance?
- We’re managing a mix of high-performing and under-enrolled programs and need a data-driven strategy to prioritize investment.
- We have limited marketing capacity and want to better align content, creative, and budget for enrollment impact.
- We’re exploring how AI and automation could streamline recruitment and enhance student engagement.
- We’re unsure how to structure our team or partnerships for scalability—what should we insource, outsource, or automate?
- We’re seeing increased competition and need to strengthen differentiation in a crowded online market.
- We want to tighten collaboration between marketing, enrollment, and academics to accelerate growth.
After the meeting, you’ll receive a 1-page Enrollment Growth Snapshot summarizing key opportunities, insights, and recommended next steps tailored to your institution’s goals.
Where Else to Find the Carnegie Team at UPCEA
You can find the team all day at our booth. Follow us on LinkedIn to stay up to date! You can also catch our presentation:
From Motivation to Graduation: Scaling a Proactive, Personalized Online Student Journey
Location: Churchill A
When: Friday, April 17 at 10:00 AM
Online learners are more diverse than ever, with unique motivations, needs, and barriers to success. Yet institutions often approach recruitment and retention through fragmented systems or one-size-fits-all strategies. This joint session brings together national research and institutional practice to explore how data, design, and human connection can align to create a seamless, scalable online student experience—from the moment a learner inquires to the day they graduate. In the first half, Carnegie and St. Catherine University share results from a nationwide study capturing the voices of thousands of online learners, revealing where institutional assumptions and student expectations diverge—and how one mid-sized private university is using those insights to inform its own online strategy. In the second half, the University of Arizona Online offers a large-scale public perspective, showcasing a proactive, data-driven student success model supporting more than 10,000 learners. Together, these perspectives highlight what it takes to close the gap between motivation and graduation—and how institutions of any size can design systems that are both personal and scalable.
- Caleb Simmons, University of Arizona
- Jessica Salata, University of Arizona
- Dean Gething, Carnegie
- Lauran Hundshame, St. Catherine University
- Jaime Oleksik, Carnegie
Moderator: Paul Ballentine, Villanova University