• Welcome to the Stockade Group Education Services
    Education Services

    The Stockade Group provides an array of services to higher education institutions. Seeking to enhance your enrollment management program? We are excited to offer our cutting edge, web-based Enhanced Search Power (ESP) service that utilizes email and a customized admission portal to attract, interact and deliver information to an unlimited pool of candidates. Or use our teleservices team to execute a targeted calling campaign in order to amplify interest among your prospective students. For development and alumni programs we are the leader in phonathons and other alumni outreach initiatives. Take advantage of our incomparable staff or utilize your own students or alumni via our Staff Integration service.

     

     

     









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    "Making the switch to the Stockade Group was the best decision we made this fall. We were able to cut our phonathon expenses by more than half and are very happy with the results achieved to date. We are particularly pleased with their attentiveness to our needs, guidance through the process and quick response to our questions."

    Rachael Hunsinger, Director
    Albany Law School Fund
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  • Enrollment Management
    Enrollment Management

    The Stockade Group is at the forefront of the dramatic changes occurring in higher educational admissions. Trends today clearly show that traditional snail mail methods of recruiting are not as effective as they once were. The traditional recruitment funnel no longer applies as prospective students demand a dynamic, interactive and instantaneous experience with prospective institutions. We offer services to meet these demands and ensure that you maximize your efforts to reach the broadest and most well suited pool of candidates for matriculation. Our Admissions Survey and Enhanced Search Power (ESP) services provide a cost effective, targeted method of cultivating a student prospect base in today's ultra competitive environment.

    Enrollment Management Services:

    • Admissions Surveys

    Through telephone surveys, our staff does more than just talk to prospective students, they serve as ambassadors of your institution and focus on developing relationships. Depending on your goals they will ascertain and enhance interest in your school, set follow up appointments for your admissions staff, and gather or convey any other information you desire.

     

     

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    • Enhanced Search Power
    ESP is an interactive web-based tool that merges recruitment with the ever more important issue of financial aid. It's the newest innovation in technology and electronic messaging that will dramatically improve your response rate and resulting student yield.

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    "With a recruiting staff of one, the Stockade Group has enabled CMC to work more efficiently and effectively. Their responsiveness to our needs and the students they are calling is excellent. It is like having an extension of my staff."
    Bill Sommers
    Dean of Enrollment
    Colorado Mountain College
    "We have doubled the accepted students and more than doubled the applications we had in our previous record year; thanks in large part to the leads your folks are giving us. Also, we are right on target with our budget, which is good news because I thought we were a little over. The campaign has exceeded my expectations tremendously!"
    David McFarland
    Director of Admissions
    La Roche College
  • Development
    Development

    As a boutique calling center, The Stockade Group is the leader in customized solutions for higher education phonathons, from annual funds to alumni membership drives and surveys. Our expertise in coordinating prudently managed, cost-effective campaigns has achieved unparalleled success for our clients.

     

    Whether you want to optimize the results of your own student conducted phonathon utilizing our Staff Integration platform or take advantage of our full-service call center, we have the answers for you. We recognize that every client is different and our consultative approach tailors a solution to satisfy every set of circumstances.

    Development Services:

    • - Annual Phonathons
    • - Alumni Membership Drives
    • - Alumni Surveys
    • - Staff Integration (a service enabling you to conduct your own on-campus student phonathon using our technology and/or consultative services)
    • - Future-Donor Advanced Survey Track (FAST)
      - Institutional Research

     










    "Drexel University has enjoyed a four-year relationship with the principals of The Stockade Group. As we continue to interact with them they have proven to be a company we can trust. Their attentiveness to detail and responsiveness to any issue, large or small, is the same – quick and thorough. I would recommend to anyone that wants experienced professionals behind their campaigns to ask for a proposal. Their pricing is reasonable and their results have been equal to or exceeded expectations. I would highly recommend them!"
    Sylvia Purnell Muldrow, M.A.
    Director, The Annual Fund
    Drexel University



    "Eckerd College is very satisfied with the results and professionalism provided by The Stockade Group. We will continue to utilize their unique services for the foreseeable future as the investment has proven beneficial year after year. In addition to the positive results, all of my dealings with the staff at Stockade were positive; they have become a real hands-on partner working with us to adjust our programs as necessary to provide the most cost-effective and informative results. Definitely worth the investment!"
    Erik C. Oliver
    Director of Annual Giving
    Eckerd College
    "Buffalo State, State University of New York, has the largest enrollment of SUNY's comprehensive colleges, and presents unique challenges for running our annual phonathon campaign. Partnering with The Stockade Group resulted in our non-donor participation rate more than doubling over previous year's efforts. I can attribute these results to their consultative approach, eagerness to promote on the fly script changes and overall, high quality telephone staff. I would recommend them to anyone! "
    Louis J. Noce
    Annual Fund Officer
    Buffalo State College
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    Staff Integration

    The Stockade Group recognizes that some institutions prefer to use their own students to reach out to alumni and/or prospective students. Our Staff Integration service provides the perfect platform to fortify your on-campus call center. Whether just getting started or seeking to improve the results of an existing program, we can provide the expertise, technology and resources to optimize your efforts. Our leadership team has decades of higher education call center experience and Staff Integration service allows you to leverage their wisdom at a reasonable cost.

    A few of the benefits:

    • - Improve overall results using your own students or alumni.
    • - Enhanced training, coaching and ongoing monitoring capabilities.
    • - Instantaneous, sophisticated reporting.
    • - Drastically improve the efficiency of institutional staff and resources.
    • - State of the art automated calling system, without a major capital investment.