Higher Education is Facing Substantial Challenges.

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Education is your business. And it’s ours too. Emerge Education is a national education services leader focused on end-to-end workforce development solutions. Through our innovative Workforce NavigatorTM, you’ll connect today’s education to tomorrow’s workforce demand.
With 100+ years of higher education experience among our employees, we help you to:
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Online Certificate Programs

Transform your regional workforce through the Emerge Education Workforce Navigator, featuring an extensive customizable catalog of 100% online entry-level and job-growth certificate programs from top industry experts. Let our team help you with program selection in sought-after fields like healthcare, information technology and professional development that build upon your current programs, which opens a pathway for students to further their education through associate degrees at your institution.

Cultivate high-performance results with customized solutions that fit your exact needs:
Advance Professional Development

Help students acquire skills and knowledge that are directly applicable to their professional goals through expert-created certificate programs.

Meet Market Demands

Meet the demands of the regional job market and adapt to changing industry needs by offering certificate programs. In addition, offering specific programs related to your local market can attract a diverse student population.

Increased Enrollment
Attract new students who may not otherwise have considered your institution by offering in-demand, 100% online certificate courses. Certificate courses are an attractive alternative for students who want to gain skills that directly transfer to a career.
Re-engage Students

Let our team of workforce development specialists provide enrollment support services to bring potential-registrants to the finish line. Through research-backed, personalized outreach efforts, students who have fallen off throughout the process will be re-engaged multiple times. 

Relieve Staffing Shortages

Mitigate staffing shortages by utilizing our specialized expertise in admissions processes, which include data analytics, marketing and recruitment strategies. Our expert staff offer a full array of benefits that help you reach a wider pool of potential students and increase enrollment.

Advance Professional Development

Help students acquire skills and knowledge that are directly applicable to their professional goals through expert-created certificate programs.

Meet Market Demands

Meet the demands of the regional job market and adapt to changing industry needs by offering certificate programs. Offering strategic certificate programs related to your local market can attract a diverse student population.

Increased Enrollment

Attract new students who may not have otherwise considered your institution by offering in-demand, 100% online certificate courses. Certificate courses are an attractive alternative to students who want to gain skills that directly transfer to a career.

Re-engage Students

Let our team of workforce development specialists provide enrollment support services to bring applicants to the finish line. Through research-backed, personalized outreach efforts, students who fell off at some point in their journey are often re-engaged and enroll in their chosen program.

Relieve Staffing Shortages

Mitigate staffing shortages by utilizing our specialized expertise in admissions processes, which include data analytics, marketing and recruitment strategies. Our expert staff offer a full array of benefits that help you reach a wider pool of potential students and increase enrollment.

For a full list of available programs and to see a demo, schedule an appointment with Lauren Holubec, Ed.D SVP, Business & Workforce Development,
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Certificate Program Portal

Meet your community workforce development goals through Workforce Navigator with a recommended program mix and branded website that we build and manage for you to handle auto-enrollment so students can register for online certificate programs seamlessly. Students are set up for success with dedicated workforce development specialists and success coaches to assist them every step of the way. Some of the critical services we can provide include: 

  • Education consultation for program selection and customized solutions

  • Client branded portal

  • E-commerce management

  • Workforce training specialist

  • Student success coaching

  • Internal marketing support including emails, branded website and other supporting materials

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Additional Higher Education Services

Completely customizable services for your needs

Colleges and universities are experiencing staff shortages, and Emerge can fill those key roles. Let us become your off-site team of experts or equip your personnel with adept expertise with our training and consulting services. We offer our full-suite of services or individualized services to fulfill your needs. 

We’ll take the reins on your staff training. We offer our expert, customized training solutions for new and/or existing staff to make sure they’re ready to help your students in every step of the enrollment process.

  • Strategic Enrollment Planning
  • Integrated Recruitment Strategy 
  • Student re-engagement
  • Academic Innovation
  • Enrollment Reporting and Analysis
  • And more!

Your school’s success hinges on an experienced IT team. Our IT team excels at creating user-friendly, conversion-based websites and understands the importance of keeping students’ private information secure.

Our vast experience in website development has given us a solid understanding of how to build websites that encapsulate the needs of the institution while still being user-friendly. We optimize your website for your top-priority conversions – like RFI completions, applications received and campus visits – through strategic user experience, journey mapping and mobile optimization.

We provide end-to-end data security consultation and recommendations for your network based on the current higher education regulations, ensuring that all student data is secure and encrypted.

The structural foundation of your CRM is essential to effectively managing lead and student data. Our experts will work with you to identify customized optimizations to your current architecture or determine if a complete re-architecture is needed. 

 

In addition to being a Salesforce Partner, we also have vast experience with other CRMs and understand how each one’s individual intricacies would interact with and benefit your organization

Meet enrollment goals by getting your programs in front of prospective students. Research and data-driven marketing strategies produce quality leads that turn into enrolled students.

Our expert team develops conversion-focused minisites that work to establish your brand, build credibility and trust, and give prospective students the exact information they need to feel compelled to reach out. From website design and content hierarchy to accessibility and user-experience, we’ll work with your team to ensure we seamlessly represent your institution while providing prospective leads with the information they need to get on the path to enrollment.

Our strategic, branded content tactics include a mix of blogs and articles, whitepapers, video, and video transcription, and more — all written using up-to-date research and information that has immediate value to prospective leads. Couple that with incredible attention to detail, high-quality search engine optimization (SEO) tactics, and powerful calls-to-action and you’ve got content generation and optimization for every part of the funnel that forms the backbone of your enrollment strategy.

Combined with smart retargeting, our data-driven experts generate results and continually optimize performance metrics through paid search networks like Google and Bing. As a long-term Google partner, we have perfected search techniques and the Google Display Network to find both students who are just beginning their educational search to those who know exactly where they want to go.

Through the use of paid and content-based social media advertising, we’ll put your brand and your strategic, optimized content at the fingertips of your prospective leads. Through smart retargeting, we’ll follow-up with users who have visited the enrollment-focused site and provide them with the additional information and encouragement they need to convert quality leads into students. into leads.

Form an early connection with prospective students. Let our expert team’s personalized approach build trust and motivation to empower students through from application to graduation.

Our highly personalized approach to student recruitment focuses on relationship-building, institutional and programmatic expertise, and experiential marketing. We get to the root of why a student wants to return to school, then work with them to eliminate obstacles and give them the tools and confidence to reach their goals.

The Keys to Graduation: Connection, Motivation, Empowerment

The relationship between our Student Success coaches and their students begins the very moment they are congratulated on their acceptance to your institution. The connection is made, establishing a motivating, empowering environment in which students know they are both supported and capable of success. Their coach also builds a relationship with the faculty, ensuring that students have a full understanding of, and connection to, their path to graduation.

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Recruitment Training and Consulting

With more than 100 years of combined recruiting experience, our recruitment experts exponentially change the current state of your organization’s recruitment.

Our experts help to unlock your recruitment potential and achieve your organization’s ultimate enrollment goals.

Learn more by visiting our recruitment consulting page.

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Accreditation Consulting

Accreditation is key to a university’s reputation. Both Accreditation and Reaffirmation put a lot of work onto the shoulders of already burdened higher education professors and administration.

We’re here to help guide you through that process.

Learn more by visiting our accreditation consulting page.

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International

Our international team focuses on delivering key integrated services that drive international results. We help you mobilize your international efforts by providing the marketing and recruitment solutions to bring in a diverse population of students.

For more specifics, visit our international page.

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Marketing

Our marketing team handles everything from landing and web page design and content marketing to email and social media marketing. We’re experts in SEO and the user experience and craft our specific message wholly based on your brand and our experience.

For more specifics, visit our marketing services page.

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Call Center and Recruitment

Our Call Center and Recruitment Specialists nurture prospective students through the funnel to enrollment. They work tirelessly to connect with each individual and build relationships that lead to successful enrollment.

“With the support of our amazing Recruitment Specialists, Emerge makes contact and is actively engaging with prospective students in less than 4 days.”

For more specifics, visit our recruitment services page.

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Retention

Our retention team leads students from enrollment through graduation. We’re experts at connecting with students and keeping them engaged with their coursework.

“According to the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center, the average university student retention rate for community college students is only 61.5%. In 2022, Emerge helped partners maintain an average of 86.4% of their students for the life of their education.”

For more specifics, visit our retention services page.

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IT Services

Your school’s success hinges on an experienced IT team. Our IT team excels at creating user-friendly, conversion-based websites and understands the importance of keeping students’ private information secure.

We help you build an infrastructure that grows and advances with the changing technological landscape. For more specifics, visit our IT services page.

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Research

We pay close attention to the critical data points that may impact strategy including market demand, competitive analysis and speed-to-completion. No organization is the same as another; through our research practices, we develop customized strategies tailored to your organization.

For more specifics, visit our research services page.

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JOIN US IN SHAPING THE FUTURE OF HIGHER EDUCATION​

Together, we can make a lasting impact in your community. Empower your college or educational institution to become a key player in closing your region’s skills gap. ​

Lauren Holubec, Ed.D
SVP, Business and Workforce Development
717.725.8687
lholubec@emergeedu.com

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