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Recent Articles & Press Coverage

thelantern.com
March 1, 2010 Easycolumbus.com: Guide to "everything" off-campus

knightfoundation.org

August 8, 2009 New Knight-funded Study Reveals 1 in 4 Tallahassee Graduates Stay in Region

fsunews.com

August 3, 2009 Group shows students life beyond Tennessee Street

Akron Beacon Journal

February 16, 2009 Web site attempts to retain graduates: Trumpeting area's virtues may prompt them to stay

Cleveland.com
February 14, 2009
Cleveland Plus using pluscollege.com Web site to keep college students in region


Columbus Business First

May 14, 2008 CompeteColumbus looks for ways to retain college students

The Columbus Dispatch
May 15, 2008 City Aims to halt grad's exodus

Massachusetts sees a decline in foreign students
Study fuels concerns of engineer shortage
The Boston Globe - July 11, 2007
Philadelphia Sales Job
Wall Street Journal – April 2, 2007

 

* Growing and Keeping Your Region’s College-Educated Workers
Economic Development America – Winter 2007

Collegia’s work has also been featured in the following publications:

NATIONAL MEDIA

Admissions Marketing Report
* October, 2000 – Don’t Underestimate the Value of the Visit

Arthur Frommer’s Budget Travel
• March, 2004 – Campus Visits: Here’s how to do it affordably

Associated Press
• October 8, 2001 – Philly colleges, tourism team up to get students
• April 23, 2000 – Philly colleges want to be like Boston

Better Home & Gardens
• May 2004 – Taking the College Tour

Chronicle of Higher Education
• July 14, 2006 – The University as Economic Savior
• Sept. 7, 2001 – Company Helps Colleges Increase Applications …

Economic Development America
* Winter 2007 – Growing and Keeping Your Region’s College-Educated Workers

Regional Review (Pennsylvania Economy League)
• Spring, 2003 – Driving the Region’s Economic Competitiveness

HSMAI Marketing
* Winter 2002/2003 – Colleges: A Tourism Goldmine

Newsweek-Kaplan Guide to Colleges
* 2003, 2004, 2005 – Don’t Flunk the Campus Visit

NACE Journal (National Association of Colleges and Employers)
• Summer 2005 – Turning Brain Drain into Brain Gain

NABUCO Business Officer
• September, 2005 – Putting Their Towns on the Map

National Geographic Traveler
• May 2005 – Campus Touring 101

USA Today
• August 28, 2003 – Consultant throws the town into the mix
• April 23, 2003 – Come for a Diploma, Stay for Life

US Airways ATTACHE Magazine
• March, 2004 – Knowledge is Power

Wall Street Journal
• April 2, 2007 – Philadelphia Sales Job
• June 15, 2004 – Cities Launch Programs to Lure College Graduates

 

LOCAL MEDIA

Akron Beacon Journal
• Sept. 29, 2005– Tribe boss pitches initiative
• July 18, 2005 – Northeast Ohio’s braining rights
• May 18, 2005 – Colleges to tackle area ‘brain drain,’ too

Boston Business Journal
• June 23, 2006 – The Bay State’s brain drain
• August 29, 2005 – Hub commencements: Squandered opportunity
* March 5, 2004 – Four days vs. four years: Luring the right visitors
• May 24, 1999 – Bonding with Beantown
• August 30, 2002 – Is our cathedral of higher education crumbling?

Boston Globe
• Oct. 12, 2005 – A Group is Sought to Save Dominance of Local Colleges
• Sept. 9, 1999 – How to balance when it’s family

Cleveland Plain Dealer
• May 19, 2006 – Answers here for inquiring minds
• May 19, 2006 – They’re talented well-educated; don’t let ‘em go
• May 17, 2006 – Keeping talent on home team
• Sept. 29, 2005 – Location, location, location: How to keep grads in NE Ohio
• Sept. 1, 2005 – Looking for ways to plug the infamous brain drain
• May 11, 2005 – Area colleges set out to teach Stay Here 101
• May 11, 2005 – College 360 needs hustle, 24/7 (Editorial)
• May 7, 2005 – Colleges announce plan to keep students in NE Ohio
• April 29, 2004 – Group wants to attract, then retain college students

Crain’s Cleveland Business
• May 9, 2005 – Colleges, biz team to tackle brain drain with $5M initiative

Daily Pennsylvanian
• May 25, 2006 – Study shows that city initiative to retain area students is working

Los Angeles Times
• October 8, 2006 – Planning a college tour? Choose your moment carefully

Miami Herald
• May 5, 2003 – Education Destination

New York Times
• March 10, 2002 – A Lesson in Economics

Northeast Ohio Inside Business Magazine
• December 2005 – Losing our Minds

Philadelphia Business Journal
• Sept. 8, 2006 – College Students’ Economic Impact
• May 26, 2006 – Youth Effort is Succeeding
• January 10, 2003 – Effort to Keep Brainpower Here Right on the Mark (Editorial)
• March 9, 2001 – Student recruits get red carpet

Philadelphia CityPaper
• Sept. 15, 2004 – Don’t Leave Us This Way

Philadelphia Daily News
• April 4, 2003 – City decides to go all the way with collegians
• Nov. 7, 2002 – Let’s Get Growing: We Need to Sell Our City
• March 13, 2001 – Luring grads to stay here
• June 10, 2000 – Philly 2 cool to B 4gotten by co-eds
• Sept. 29, 1998 – How Boston Built A Better Student Magnet

Philadelphia Inquirer
• Oct. 23, 2006 – Philly must fight – or grads take flight
• Nov. 2, 2005 – Looking Abroad for New Students
• June 11, 2004 – Brain Drain? Not so Fast.
• April 6, 2003 – The Brain Drain (Inquirer Magazine feature story)
• July 14, 2002 – Not a tough sell: Graduates need to know about Philadelphia (Editorial)
• Sept. 2, 2001 – Hey Kids: Give the City a Look
• April 22, 2000 – A promotional campaign aims to bill Phila as a college town

Philadelphia Magazine
• May 2004 – Beantown Envy

Philadelphia METRO
• October 17, 2006 – Stopping the Brain Drain
• September 14, 2005 – In Philly: Learn then Leave

Philadelphia Weekly
• November 17, 1999 – In Search of Student Bodies

Pittsburgh Post Gazette
• Sept. 19, 2002 – Program launched to woo, keep college students here

San Antonio Express-News
• Aug. 1, 2004 – More than 90,000 students, yet S.A. is not the traditional college town

Washington Post
• January 9, 2006 – Urban Colleges Learn to Be Good Neighbors
• April 2, 2004 – Philadelphia Aims to Reverse Brain Drain

 

NATIONAL RADIO AND TV

ABC News
CBS
CNN
Comcast CN8 Newsmakers
Family Travel Network
MSNBC
National Public Radio
Smart City Radio: Collegia on the Air.
The Travel Channel

 

INTERNATIONAL MEDIA

Asahi Shimbun News (Japan)
Nihon Kyoiku Shimbun (Japan)
Chosun Ilbo Day News (Korea)

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