The answer is yes, according to First Lady Michelle Obama and members of Mission: Readiness.
Mrs. Obama is using the bully pulpit to raise awareness of the obesity issue and the epidemic’s impact on all aspects of society. As she pointed out during the launch of her awareness program on February 9, obesity is seen as [...]
My book on higher ed branding – The Real U: Building Brands that Resonate with Students, Faculty, Staff, and Donors – is being published later this month by CASE. Buy one now!
The Real U represents the first book-length manuscript I’ve written since completing my doctoral program, which was largely focused on modern and contemporary American [...]
Amid Facebook fan pages and Twitter posts, colleges and universities appear to be embracing a new social media trend to include in their marketing and communications strategies – “LipDub.” Part virtual campus tour and part music video, “LipDub” is a style of video that aims to showcase a college’s campus and student life in a [...]
University of Miami School of Law has launched its newly re-skinned website. The project, completed with help from Lipman Hearne’s interactive team, brings a fresh new look and engaging animation to the home page, which emphasizes the School’s advantageous location in a world-class city at the crossroads of the Americas.
The launch caps a great year [...]
Lipman Hearne’s new website, launched earlier this week, gives visitors a fresh look at the firm and its work.
Central to the site is Lipman Hearne’s best asset: the staff. Visitors can browse staff stories in the People section, hear staff members’ voices through quotes that float throughout the site, and catch glimpses of them as [...]
Ted Long, President of Elizabethtown College, and Tim Westerbeck, Managing Director & Principal of Lipman Hearne, presented a case study on the rebranding of Elizabethtown College at the AMA Symposium for Higher Education last week. The presentation showcased how Elizabethtown used transformative marketing techniques to recognize and embrace its true identity and distinctive market positioning.
Here is [...]
I work with and study a lot of business schools and no doubt this article on M.B.A.’s and social change identifies a real trend toward students wanting to explore issues of sustainability, corporate social responsibility, “green” enterprises and other social entrepreneurship concepts. These are, not surprisingly, subjects with tremendous natural appeal in today’s environment.
One can [...]
When Princeton University announced in 2001 that it would replace all student loans with grants, a chain reaction was set in action, slowly but surely. Students weren’t so much being enticed to choose Princeton—an attractive enough option on its own—as they were being lured away from Princeton’s nearest competitors.
It wasn’t just that Princeton had found [...]
Upon reading Premchand Palety’s article on India’s B-schools in the Wall Street Journal, I could not help but agree that growth of the management education industry in India has no doubt outpaced the growth in quality. Clearly, more regulation of the sector is in order.
However, let’s be sure to give great credit to the many [...]
The University of Texas at Arlington had the opportunity for great visibility in the new palace of American sports – Cowboys Stadium, just down the road from UTA’s campus. The challenge was to develop creative across different formats that reinforced the University’s core messages, generated excitement and awareness among stadium attendees, and provided iconic imagery [...]