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2011 DIRECTORY OF HIGHER EDUCATION CONSULTANTS • Career advising and placement • Financial aid advising • Financial aid back ofﬁce services including veriﬁcation, packaging, auditing and compliance • Default prevention and management • Technical support • 24/7 student concierge • Consulting • Marketing assessments • Strategic planning We are proud to have served institutions serving traditional, non-traditional and online student populations, including Saint Leo University, University of Mississippi, University of Alabama, Regis University, Troy University, Texas Tech, Mass Bay Community College and Wayne State University. performance, apply insightful knowledge to sound decision making in the present, and attain future outcomes critical to the health and vitality of their institutions. Maguire Associates’ services include: • enrollment management consulting • market research • branding and image development • student retention/satisfaction consulting and research • strategic pricing and forecasting • strategic ﬁnancial aid modeling • strategic planning • alumni and development research. • Integrated Communications • Training and Workshops • On-site Management Miller/Cook & Associates, Inc. has provided services to over 300 colleges and universities in over 38 states, the District of Columbia and four international locations NSLP 1300 O Street Lincoln, NE 68508 800-735-8778 Overture Technologies 6900 Wisconsin Avenue, Suite 200 Bethesda, MD 20814 301-492-2140 ProEducation Solutions Miller/Cook & Associates, Inc. Higher One 25 Science Park New Haven, CT 05613 203-776-7776 Lisa Forte (x4426), Don Smith (x4115) www.higherone.com Founded in 2000, Higher One is a leading company focused on helping college business ofﬁces manage operations and provide enhanced service to students. Through a full array of services from refunds, payments, electronic billing, payment plans and more, Higher One works closely with colleges and universities to ensure students receive Financial Aid refunds quickly, can pay tuition and bills online, make on-campus and community purchases, and learn the basics of ﬁnancial management. Higher One provides its services to distinguished public and private higher education institutions throughout the country. 20 Marco Lake Drive, Suite 12 Marco Island, FL 34145 800-591-1141 (toll free) 239-394-5040 Fax 239-394-2652 catherine@millercook.com www.millercook.com 491 Partridge Circle Sarasota, FL 34236 941-373-9272 Miller/Cook & Associates, Inc. specializes in designing affordable and sustainable approaches to enrollment management that help colleges meet and exceed goals in admission, ﬁnancial aid, retention and net revenue. These results are achieved though a holistic approach to enrollment management that reﬂects each client’s mission and culture. In fact, we are the only enrollment management ﬁrm that can provide research support, strategic planning, and design services as well as operational support in both admissions and ﬁnancial aid. Our institution-speciﬁc assessment and design of enrollment management systems will support your strategic plan, maximize your net tuition-revenue, help you improve regulatory compliance, and provide you the processes and tools you need to build or shape your undergraduate, graduate, and adult student populations. Multiple-year as well as tactical models and assessment tools are an important part of all of our enrollment systems. Our clients beneﬁt from our team of experts in educational research, academic support, admissions and ﬁnancial aid. When you work with Miller/Cook you work with experts with extensive experience, not a team of part-time associates. Our services represent the combined experiences of all of our professionals in higher education with over 100 years of combined experiences and include: • Institutional and Enrollment Analysis • Strategic Positioning/Institutional Image • Enrollment Integration/Operation • Re-recruitment • Financial Aid Assessments including Compliance Reviews • Multiple Year Financial Aid Modeling Guided by data, driven by service Scannell & Kurz, Inc. 71-B Monroe Avenue Pittsford, NY 14534 585-381-1120 Fax 585-381-2383 info@scannellkurz.com www.scannellkurz.com Scannell & Kurz, Inc. specializes in developing customized, data-driven ﬁnancial aid, recruitment, and retention strategies for their higher education clients. Services include: • Organizational and operational reviews of enrollment-related ofﬁces • Strategic ﬁnancial aid analysis including recommendations for action • Recruitment “best practice” advice • Empirically based retention assessment and targeted intervention strategies • Management tools such as our Scannell & Kurz Online Reporting Environment (SKORE) and our Financial Aid Strategy Tool (FAST) We are dedicated to working in partnership with our clients, sharing our analytical techniques in order to develop our client’s knowledge base for addressing future enrollment challenges. The solutions recommended are unique to each client, based on a data-driven understanding of the institution’s particular market position and challenges. Special attention is paid to ensuring that the solutions are practical, detailed, and implementable. Outcomes include improved net tuition revenue, more effective management of institutional resources, and achievement of speciﬁc class proﬁle targets, all within the understanding of the necessary “tradeoffs” involved. A sample of recent clients include: Abilene Christian universitybusiness.com/consulting Maguire Associates, Inc. 555 Virginia Road, Suite 201 Concord, MA 01742 978-371-1775 Fax 978-371-1759 www.maguireassoc.com Maguire Associates is a comprehensive market research and consulting ﬁrm that serves educational institutions and associations. 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Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of University Business - July/August 2011

University Business - July/August 2011
Contents
Editor's Note
Ad Index
College Index
Behind the News
Sense of Place
Viewpoint
Financial Success
Money Matters
Community Colleges
Funding Capture
Models of Efficiency
Thwarting ID Thieves
Embezzlement Epidemic
What's New
End Note

University Business - July/August 2011