Announcing the launch of our newest academic program, Climate Tech, designed to be offered as a minor or concentration that pairs with business, technology, and engineering degrees.

Discover the benefits of launching AI academic programs for colleges with Rize, offering innovative solutions to prepare students for the AI-driven world.

Explore how Rize's career navigation courses in Business Analytics, Computer Science, Cybersecurity, and Digital Marketing prepare students for the job market.

Discover 6 proven enrollment marketing yield strategies for small colleges in 2024 to boost conversions with effective communication.

This month's release notes highlight the ability for our partners to add their own custom course codes to the platform and a preview of our new Climate Tech program.

Why are 50% of business grads underemployed? We dive into the data to uncover surprising observations paired with recommendations that every campus can use to better support students.

Learn about our consortium model of program sharing with enrollment marketing and student support services to significantly reduce costs and risk of academic program development.

Discover Rize’s framework for course design in online learning. Elevate clarity, outcomes, and engagement to ensure effective online students.

In this blog, we detail the tech tools that enable us to identify students at risk and provide in the moment support through a variety of channels.

So, what are career navigation courses? Discover how to improve career navigation at colleges to better prepare students to enter the workforce.

We’re excited to launch this series as a dedicated resource for keeping you informed about the latest advancements in the Rize platform.

“Education is not just complicated but complex. It is an interlocking system of learners, educators, technologies, and broader social contexts, with all kinds of invisible linkages."

We’re excited to announce that our first AI course and career navigation courses are now available for fall registrations.

Not all program sharing is created equal. Learn about how to realize maximum return on investment when selecting a program sharing provider for your college.

After considerable market analysis and consultation with subject market experts, we are thrilled to announce two new academic programs: Applied AI and AI Literacy.

This research focuses on the shared journey between college students and their institutions toward achieving successful student outcomes.

We explore the growing interest in online education among 18-24 year olds and how serving students and employers can lead to better outcomes.

Three pieces of advice we learned from excellent podcasts on how to level up that will continue to influence us in 2024.

In 2023, we grew enrollment for our partners, added new programs to meet demand, and increased the size of our team to support success.

Compare OPMs with course sharing and program sharing when evaluating options for online or hybrid academic program development.

With the Rize drop date in the rearview mirror, we are excited to share a few stats on the Fall 2023 semester.

This simple, but impactful advice for busy higher ed leaders is helping small colleges prioritize.

We use a data-driven approach to ensure that every student receives the support needed to thrive.

Enlightened hospitality help reframe the way colleges and universities can use data to turn transactional interactions into personalized, meaningful experiences.

After setting the foundation in 2020 and 2021, the Rize team was able to build world-class programs and drive measurable impact for our partners.

For many colleges, the thought of adding new programs can be daunting. Adding new programs is expensive, time-consuming, and risky. With those obstacles in mind, is there ever an ideal time to launch new undergraduate degree programs? Yes, and that time is now. 

The decision to start new majors every year seems like it should be simple: according to sources like the Lumina Foundation, 93% of students list “available majors” as one of the most important reasons they choose a college (or don’t!). 

Every week, my inbox fills with annual reports and surveys offering insight into the latest trends in higher ed. Public sentiment surveys, provost or CFO surveys, campus attitudes toward technology, fastest-growing majors.

Rize Education is excited to partner with Forage to enhance career readiness opportunities at over 80 independent colleges in the Lower Cost Models Consortium. The partnership will give thousands of students across the country the ability to participate in free virtual job simulations with companies like Mastercard, KPMG, and Lululemon.

Last year, I met with the team at Gray Associates to learn about their program evaluation tools and consulting services. I was really impressed by how much insight I pulled out of a handful of interactions.

92% of students found courses to be as good or better than other online courses they have taken. 55% of students rated their course strictly better than other online courses...

Within the Rize Slack channels, Freakonomics Radio is a commonly shared podcast. So when Freakonomics recently announced a series on college, including what the future of college may look like, many of us eagerly listened in...

Faced with demographic changes, rising costs and competition from nontraditional providers, many private colleges must overcome significant headwinds to grow enrollment...

A hybrid campus is a university that provides student services most notably courses, but also career services, wellness, etc. using a blend of online and face-to-face delivery...

Introducing The College of the Future: Lowering Costs for Students by Fixing the Business Model of Higher Education, written by co-authors Kevin Harrington and Dr. Jeffrey R. Docking...

In the fall of 2021, a small team at Rize started The Rize Foundation to support our mission of reducing tuition while providing LCMC students with better pathways to rewarding careers...

At a high level, enrollment marketing services are a combination of content and strategies that help institutions market academic programs to prospective students. The goal of those strategies is to drive more applications and campus tours that will lead to increased enrollment...

From 2021 to 2022 we saw significant growth in LCMC members, shared program adoption, and student enrollment in consortium courses. The LCMC grew from 87 to 121 members, the number of collaborative programs approved by LCMC members more than doubled from 91 to 230 during 2021...