Understanding Millennials: Where to find them and how to reach them

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“Where to Find Them and How to Reach Them” will examine the congregating places for millennial students and how best to attract their attention. We will also be releasing the results of our Millennial Website Review and Social Footprint Analysis case studies in the near future.* Where do millennials spend time? * How can you best attract their attention? * What do millennials think of our institutional websites? * Where in the electronic social world are our schools being talked about? * Best practices * Factors to consider * Conclusions

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Millennials & Neo-Millennials: THE

WEBINAR SERIES Presented by the Imagine America Foundation and ED MAP.

About the Imagine America Foundation

The Imagine America Foundation (IAF), established in 1982, is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to providing scholarship, research and training support for the career college sector.

To date through the Imagine America® programs, the Foundation has presented over $40 million in scholarships and awards to students enrolling at career colleges and universities all across the Unites States and Puerto Rico. For more information, please visit www.imagine-america.org.

The Imagine America Foundation (IAF), established in 1982, is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to providing scholarship, research and training support for the career college sector.

To date through the Imagine America® programs, the Foundation has presented over $40 million in scholarships and awards to students enrolling at career colleges and universities all across the Unites States and Puerto Rico. For more information, please visit www.imagine-america.org.

About the Imagine America Foundation

● Imagine America Scholarship and Award Programs● Imagine America High School Scholarship

Imagine America Promise Scholarship Program

● Military Award Program (MAP)LDRSHIP Award

● Adult Skills Education Program (ASEP)

● Imagine America Scholarship and Award Programs● Imagine America High School Scholarship

Imagine America Promise Scholarship Program

● Military Award Program (MAP)LDRSHIP Award

● Adult Skills Education Program (ASEP)

About the Imagine America Foundation

● Research● Fact Book 2009: A Profile of Career Colleges and

Universities● Filling America's Skilled Worker Shortage: The

Role of Career Colleges (2008)● In Service to America: Celebrating 165 Years of

Career and Professional Education (2007)

● Upcoming Research● Postsecondary Graduation Rates Study (Fall

2009)● ROI for Faculty Development (Fall 2009)

● Research● Fact Book 2009: A Profile of Career Colleges and

Universities● Filling America's Skilled Worker Shortage: The

Role of Career Colleges (2008)● In Service to America: Celebrating 165 Years of

Career and Professional Education (2007)

● Upcoming Research● Postsecondary Graduation Rates Study (Fall

2009)● ROI for Faculty Development (Fall 2009)

About ED MAP, Inc.

● ED MAP is a content management company dedicated to delivering innovation for our partners.  We create, get, store, deliver and monetize content for the educational markets. We have extensive relationships with academic publishers and educational institutions.  We are the only company flexible enough to meet their diverse content advisory, editorial, production, logistics, and customization needs.  

● We create value and equity for our partners in two ways.  For academic institutions and their faculty and students, over the long-term we lower the cost of scholarship, offer choices of content tailored to specific needs, and offer cost recovery or profit models for content distribution and management.  For publishers of learning materials, we enable them to get a content strategy directionally correct, and remain flexible enough to adapt their offerings as the market changes. 

● Our clients include proprietary and career colleges, K-12 online programs and institutions, multi-campus systems, traditional campuses, continuing education and professional associations. Additional information can be found at our company website:  www.edmap.biz

● ED MAP is a content management company dedicated to delivering innovation for our partners.  We create, get, store, deliver and monetize content for the educational markets. We have extensive relationships with academic publishers and educational institutions.  We are the only company flexible enough to meet their diverse content advisory, editorial, production, logistics, and customization needs.  

● We create value and equity for our partners in two ways.  For academic institutions and their faculty and students, over the long-term we lower the cost of scholarship, offer choices of content tailored to specific needs, and offer cost recovery or profit models for content distribution and management.  For publishers of learning materials, we enable them to get a content strategy directionally correct, and remain flexible enough to adapt their offerings as the market changes. 

● Our clients include proprietary and career colleges, K-12 online programs and institutions, multi-campus systems, traditional campuses, continuing education and professional associations. Additional information can be found at our company website:  www.edmap.biz

ED MAP Labs Millennial Review

● EML Millennial Review is a robust tool that, in a controlled environment, offers an online, asynchronous review of all aspects of the student experience. It enables schools to gain feedback from current students, potential students and targeted demographics. Three participants in today’s webinar will be selected to receive a free Millennial Website Review and the results will be shared anonymously in the fourth webinar.

● EML Millennial Review is a robust tool that, in a controlled environment, offers an online, asynchronous review of all aspects of the student experience. It enables schools to gain feedback from current students, potential students and targeted demographics. Three participants in today’s webinar will be selected to receive a free Millennial Website Review and the results will be shared anonymously in the fourth webinar.

Rebekah RichardsChief Academic Officer & School Principal

The American Academy

theamericanacademy.com

Session Four:Where to Find Them and How to

Reach Them

Today’s Session

● Introductions

● Who are the Millennials?

● Where can you find them?

● Are you ready for them?

● TAA’s Millennials Strategy

● Introductions

● Who are the Millennials?

● Where can you find them?

● Are you ready for them?

● TAA’s Millennials Strategy

Who are the Millennials?

Who are the Millennials?

A Generational Timeline

From the Outside In

● Entitled● Center of the Universe:

“It’s all about me.”● “Trophy Kids”● Motivated by money and

fame

● Entitled● Center of the Universe:

“It’s all about me.”● “Trophy Kids”● Motivated by money and

fame

Self-Reflection

● Entitled Empowered● Center of the Universe Self-Actualized● “Trophy Kids” Life on their own terms● Motivated by money, fame … and world

peace.

● Entitled Empowered● Center of the Universe Self-Actualized● “Trophy Kids” Life on their own terms● Motivated by money, fame … and world

peace.

Where can you find

Millennials?

Where can you find

Millennials?

Are you Millennial ready?

Are you Millennial ready?

Rebekah’s Keys for Reaching Millennials

Be…● Transparent● Authentic● Flexible● Community-Moderated

Be…● Transparent● Authentic● Flexible● Community-Moderated

TAA’s Millennials Strategy

YouTube - Recruiting

YouTube – Academic Program

Facebook Apps – TAA Rater

Facebook Apps – TAA Rater

Facebook Apps – TAA Rater

Facebook Apps – CourseFeed

Facebook Apps – CourseFeed

Facebook Apps – StudyworX

Facebook Apps – StudyworX

Website Content – Course Ratings

Website Content – Course Ratings

Website Content – Blogs

Website Content – SMS Alerts and Notifications

Website Content – Diploma Calculator

Questions?

● Imagine America Foundation● Bob Martin: President, Imagine America Foundation

Email: bobm@imagine-america.org ● Jenny Faubert: Manager of Marketing and Project Development

Email: jennyf@imagine-america.org ● ED MAP

● Isaac Mowder: VP Product and Market Development

Email: imowder@edmap.biz ● Chris Carroll: Director of Learning Services

Email: ccarroll@edmap.biz ● The American Academy

● Rebekah Richards – rebekah.richards@taaschools.net

● Imagine America Foundation● Bob Martin: President, Imagine America Foundation

Email: bobm@imagine-america.org ● Jenny Faubert: Manager of Marketing and Project Development

Email: jennyf@imagine-america.org ● ED MAP

● Isaac Mowder: VP Product and Market Development

Email: imowder@edmap.biz ● Chris Carroll: Director of Learning Services

Email: ccarroll@edmap.biz ● The American Academy

● Rebekah Richards – rebekah.richards@taaschools.net