Thread by @JonBoeckenstedt

Thread: The numbers.

I've never received so many emails about my writing in CHE as I have for the most recent one about "The Number."

But here's a little insight into that.

Sunday morning, I logged in and checked our Tuition Deposits for Fall first-year students.

By Sunday evening (12 hours later) that number had gone up by 3.7%.

By this morning, it had gone up another 3.2% over that.

Expressed another way, 6.5% of all deposits we currently have came in during the last 24 hours. And we still have a day to go...the day that is traditionally the biggest, or at least one of the biggest.

I've had years when that big day did not materialize. This includes going back to the days when we'd all wait for someone to come back from the mail room to see how big the day's bin was. Now we watch them roll in in real time.

So, fingers crossed for us and for all our colleagues who are hoping for that big day today. Or who had it yesterday. Or who will be open for admission all summer.

Or who have to worry about summer melt.

Please, if you're a vendor and read that last tweet, don't send me your solution about stopping summer melt.

Thanks in advance.

Here's the CHE article in case your friendly neighborhood VP EM hasn't already sent it to you.

Hug that person--unless it's me...please don't hug me--today.

chronicle.com/article/ive-wo…

Oh, and #EMTalk