How to Empower Directors & Faculty to Market Their Programs in a Decentralized Graduate Admissions Model

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About the Episode

This week, we sat down with Walt Bieschke, Assistant Director at Vanderbilt University's Graduate School, to discuss his role as a catalyst for disseminating marketing best-practices to Directors of Graduate Studies. Walt's admissions tips email series keep decentralized enrollment marketing teams at his school up to date on technologies, strategies, and low time commitment yet high return tips to increase enrollment numbers across programs. From Walt's perspective, a solid knowledge of target market, competitors, and your own program's selling points is a key foundation to any successful enrollment marketing strategy.

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Host

Seth Odell

Seth Odell is Founder and CEO of Kanahoma, the fastest growing digital marketing agency in higher education, and host of The Higher Ed Pulse.

Mallory Willsea

Mallory Willsea is a strategist and consultant working at the intersection of higher education.

Interviewee

Walt Bieschke

My passion is providing new ideas to improve business processes, especially in areas of higher-education management and systems training program development. I incorporate technology tools and market research to improve outcomes for recruiting and enrollment. I develop systems training programs in plain language, so that users understand the system instead of learning rote tasks. Advanced business writing and speaking skills enable me to create targeted communication and recruitment plans for specific audiences. Innovation in higher-education management, process development, and client training and relations are my primary interests.

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