Research & White Papers

In June 2021, we conducted a nationwide survey of over 2,000 recent alumni and discovered valuable insights and opportunities. Findings offer current trends to engage recent alumni, including their expectations and preferences related to communications, event participation and giving. Some of our findings are summarized below.

Vincent Johnson, Former Vice President of Information Systems at Lancaster Bible College Explores Lessons Learned at this Thriving Institution.

Each year, Anthology analyzes data from its advancement customers to identify the latest industry trends, uncover strategic insights, and share success stories to help you refine online giving and engagement strategies.

This research began as a response to the enrollment challenges facing higher education and a desire to understand recent trends in the dispositions and attitudes of enrolled college students—in analyzing this large collection of responses both in aggregate and broken down by institution size and type, several trends initially stand out.

As more institutions migrate their core systems to the cloud, we are beginning to see best practices emerge for this pre-implementation stage, which help institutions ask the right questions and make more accurate assessments of their systems and needs. With this in mind, here are five critical steps your institution should consider before implementing in the cloud.

First-generation college students are an increasingly significant, yet under-studied, population in higher education. Any research that does exist generally focuses on their deficits rather than positive attributes. Using data from the Campus Labs Student Strengths Inventory™ (SSI), which measures students in six noncognitive skills (detailed below), we can compare first-generation college students and their non-first-generation peers for a more critical look at some common assumptions.