Insights & Perspectives from BPS
Explore the latest thinking from BPS on enrollment management, financial aid, institutional strategy, and the evolving challenges and opportunities facing higher education.
Beyond Compliance: Rethinking the Net Price Calculator as an Enrollment Strategy Tool
Net Price Calculators are designed to help students understand college affordability. But for institutions willing to think beyond compliance, they can also play a meaningful role in recruitment, engagement, and enrollment strategy.
BPS Introduces Custom Net Price Calculator Services for Colleges and Universities
New offering combines financial aid expertise, enrollment strategy, and Slate CRM capabilities to help institutions deliver a more effective affordability experience.
AACRAO SEM 2026 Conference Resources
AACRAO SEM continues to provide a valuable opportunity to exchange ideas, explore emerging challenges, and share strategies for advancing institutional success. From navigating shifting enrollment trends and financial pressures to strengthening campus collaboration and operational effectiveness, the conversations throughout the conference reinforced the importance of thoughtful, data-informed approaches to strategic enrollment management.
From Enrollment Goals to Institutional Action:
Why Successful SEM Requires Alignment Beyond Admissions
Enrollment success is a shared institutional responsibility. Achieving it requires more than ambitious recruitment goals—it demands alignment across strategy, resources, operations, and financial planning.
Report: Institutional Alignment for Enrollment and Fiscal Health Assessment
Sustainable enrollment and fiscal health cannot be achieved through recruitment strategy alone. They require an institution-wide operating model in which enrollment, revenue, academic priorities, student experience, marketing, financial aid, budgeting, and operations are aligned around shared goals and informed by market realities.
Best Practice Solutions Welcomes Dr. Boyd Bradshaw as Principal
Best Practice Solutions is pleased to announce that Dr. Boyd Bradshaw has joined the firm as a Principal. Boyd brings more than 30 years of leadership experience in strategic enrollment management, admissions, financial aid, enrollment marketing, organizational development, and student success.
The Admissions Directors Lunchcast
In this guest episode, BPS team and hosts explore what it means to empower a college’s internal enrollment management team by strengthening their ability to handle every aspect of the enrollment cycle with confidence.
Slate Summit 2026: Key Upgrades & New Features
Slate’s upcoming feature pipeline puts a strong emphasis on user experience, automation, and native AI to make everyday work simpler and more efficient. We’ve highlighted the updates we think will have the biggest impact on our teams.
Recap: 2026 BPS Enrollment Management Symposium
The Best Practice Solutions Enrollment Management Symposium brought together institutional leaders and practitioners to align strategy, operations, and execution across the enrollment lifecycle.