Solutions for Your Institution’s Biggest Challenges Delivered by Higher Education Pros
Ensure financial and enrollment success with thought partnership from higher education consultants who deliver the custom solutions your institution needs to survive and thrive.
Featured Solutions
Whether it's adapting your budget model, updating your growth strategy, or developing a strategic plan, here are ways our team can support you:
Grow Enrollment
Kennedy & Company higher education consulting solutions focus on growth by helping you assess student pipelines, reach enrollment goals, offer the right mix of degrees, and improve processes.
Develop a Strategic Plan
Align your institution’s mission with actionable strategic goals as Kennedy & Company leads your stakeholders through highly participatory and engaging planning. Determine the feasibility of new colleges, programs, and long-term strategies.
Leverage Enrollment Technology
Delight students with enrollment technology tools and processes that reduce barriers, and harness the power of AI across the admissions and enrollment cycle.
Build an Online Enterprise
Increase your team’s internal capacity to grow enrollment by offering in-demand online degrees and tailored student recruitment strategies. We’ll help you model the best structure, improve prospect conversion, tailor faculty development, and design effective online student support systems.
Achieve Financial Sustainability
Identify creative options for improving revenues and reducing expenses with Kennedy & Company’s help in cost analysis, new budget methodology, tuition price assessment and tuition resets.
Get a Better Net Price Calculator
Give families and future students the right cost of attendance information at the best time in their college search with Kennedy & Company’s 1stAid - a net price calculator that does so much more. Our professionals support your Student Financial Aid team on an ongoing basis, and the lead generation tool built into the NPC gives your Admissions team invaluable information.
Interim Staffing Solutions
As you face ever-changing challenges that demand adaptable staffing solutions and efficient operations, turn to Kennedy & Company for interim staffing and strategic outsourcing services. We help you fill leadership gaps, manage hiring freezes, optimize workflows, and drive institutional success.
Administration | Financial Forecasting & Budget Strategy | Fractional Marketing Director | Enrollment Forecasting | Advancement & Alumni Relations | Data Analysis
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"Kennedy & Company demonstrated not only deep expertise in Salesforce but also a remarkable understanding of the unique operational and student engagement needs of community colleges. Their strategic approach went beyond technical implementation. They worked closely with our colleges and system leadership to build a shared CRM framework that supports critical lifecycle functions like recruiting, enrolling, and paying. The result was a scalable, flexible model that respects local autonomy while delivering enterprise value. Their ability to translate business needs into actionable, student-centered solutions made them an invaluable partner in our transformation. We continue to benefit from the foundation K&Co helped us establish."
"FDU has engaged Kennedy and Company for financial aid leveraging, predictive modeling, and enrollment forecasting over the last few years. The work with them has allowed us to feel more confident in our projections and has streamlined the processes that previously relied on manually updated Excel spreadsheets. Kennedy and Company continues to demonstrate a willingness to work with our priorities in this dynamic higher education environment."
“Our collaboration with Kennedy & Company has been nothing short of transformative. Through their expert guidance and strategic implementation of Salesforce Education Cloud, Spartanburg Community College has elevated its marketing, communication, and student engagement efforts to an entirely new level. The result is a sophisticated, data-driven CRM ecosystem that not only enhances operational efficiency but also empowers our teams to support student success in more meaningful and measurable ways. Kennedy & Company has proven to be an invaluable partner in our digital evolution.”
“Kennedy & Company was helpful and responsive from our initial contact with them in creating an appropriate scope of work that fit our needs, all the way through to developing the Slate Reader and Application for our over 140 graduate programs with several hundred users. Even with a decentralized admission model and with so many users involved, we were focused on creating a single solution that would be malleable for all. They helped us create a solution that fit the needs of many and were diligent and tireless in responding to our trouble-shooting questions and quest for continuous improvement. We wouldn't hesitate to recommend them and look forward to continued work on other projects.”
“Kennedy and Company’s expertise in strategic planning has been transformative for the College of Engineering. Their productive conversations brought clarity to our vision and enabled us to identify common themes that will shape the future of the College. With their guidance and ongoing support, we have crafted a clear, actionable 10-year roadmap that perfectly aligns with our goals and with Villanova’s mission, confidently positioning us for continued innovation and growth.”
“I am sincerely grateful for our partnership with Kennedy & Company. Their team has played many instrumental roles helping Palmetto College plan and execute on our growth strategies. Palmetto College is a complex organization that includes four two-year institutions located throughout the state, as well as an online degree completion programs. Kennedy & Company has helped us both transform our enrollment plans and strategies, and also translated them into actionable tasks for our teams within the Salesforce CRM. This effort has improved our adoption of the CRM and enabled our teams to better engage students throughout their time with us.”
“Kennedy and Company quickly established themselves as a critical companion when it comes to both thought partnership and modeling the implications of complex challenges/solutions. With such a broad range of support their team can provide, they have helped Mason tackle some of its most important questions facing the institution as we both develop offerings for new markets and improve student outcomes.”
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