by Bart Caylor | Dec 1, 2025 | Marketing Strategies, Marketing Trends, Featured, Ideas, Future of Higher Ed, Strategies, Generation Z, Leveraging AI
After much thought, I want to lay out what I believe to be the marketing trends in higher education that are happening right now as we go into 2026. It’s important for us to understand these trends in how students and their families think and behave. Why is it so...
by Bart Caylor | Oct 27, 2025 | Tools, Marketing Trends, Featured, Future of Higher Ed, Leveraging AI
The ROI of AI in higher ed marketing is one of the most misunderstood—and most overlooked—conversations happening on campuses today. It’s easy to get swept up in the novelty of AI tools or overwhelmed by the hype around automation and efficiency. But when you’re...
by Bart Caylor | Sep 22, 2025 | Marketing Strategies, Marketing Trends, Featured, Future of Higher Ed, Tools, Leveraging AI
Modern enrollment pressures are reshaping what it means to succeed in higher ed marketing—so what future-ready marketing skills will your team need to keep pace? If you lead a college or university marketing department today, you’re no stranger to pressure....
by Bart Caylor | Sep 15, 2025 | Leveraging AI, Marketing Strategies, content marketing, Marketing Trends, Featured, Strategies, Websites
If your college wants to stay visible on Google’s AI Search, you can no longer treat Google like it’s just a list of hyperlinks. Search is changing fast. Google’s new AI Mode is no longer just surfacing ranked pages. Instead, it’s delivering conversational answers...
by Bart Caylor | Sep 8, 2025 | Featured, Branding, Marketing Strategies, content marketing, Marketing Trends, Marketing Campaigns, Strategies, Generation Z
Every college needs a mission-fit student recruitment strategy—especially now, as enrollment pressures grow and student expectations shift. If you’re like many higher ed marketers I speak with, you’re feeling the strain. You’re juggling tighter...
by Bart Caylor | Aug 21, 2025 | Featured, Podcast, Tools, Leveraging AI, Marketing Trends
Every technological revolution, such as generative AI tools, takes some time to be accepted by the greater population. From the beginning of any new technology, early adopters jump on board and begin to experiment with how this innovation should be best applied for...
