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FORT SMITH -- Brooke Magallanes started last week as the new associate vice chancellor for enrollment management at the University of Arkansas at Fort Smith with plans to increase the schools enrollment, especially in the Hispanic community.

FORT SMITH -- Brooke Magallanes started last week as the new associate vice chancellor for enrollment management at the University of Arkansas at Fort Smith with plans to increase the schools enrollment, especially in the Hispanic community.

Despite the headwinds facing higher education, fall enrollment is up 3% from this time last year across the University of Arkansas System.

Despite the headwinds facing higher education, fall enrollment is up 3% from this time last year across the University of Arkansas System.

FORT SMITH -- The University of Arkansas at Fort Smith reported seeing a 6.8% increase in its enrollment of first-year entering students this academic year compared to last year, along with a growth in overall enrollment.

FORT SMITH -- The University of Arkansas at Fort Smith is moving toward implementing its plan for what it hopes to accomplish during the next five years.

Listen   For years, higher education institutions across the nation have been turning to analytics to manage unpredictable enrollment and rising recruitment costs. According to a report by the EDUCAUSE Center for Applied Research, 69 percent of post-secondary schools were already using some form of data analytics as early as 2012. Although graduate enrollment increased by 4.3% compared to spring 2020, the pandemic and a constrained federal budget have introduced new uncertainties for univers...