Alumni Engagement After Cardinal Stritch University closed in 2023, a sizable network of alumni, former students, and former employees remains. This presents an opportunity to offer continuing education, credentials, and career services to that audience, leveraging the existing marketing tech stack to reach them while aligning with Franciscan values.

Enrollment Pressure Media coverage confirms severe enrollment declines and financial hardships at Stritch, underscoring a market need for enrollment management, financial operations optimization, and revenue diversification that could be offered to similar midsize private institutions.

Asset Disposition The 2023 campus sale and related awards indicate demand for campus real estate and asset disposition services. There is potential to provide campus decommissioning, auction, and property management capabilities to buyers, adjacent institutions, or private operators.

Tech Enablement Stritch’s marketing and operations stack includes The Trade Desk, Facebook Pixel, Adobe Experience Cloud, Kentico, WordPress, and Atlassian, signalling readiness for sophisticated digital marketing and content delivery. This creates opportunities to offer managed services, stack optimization, migration, or training to other higher education clients.

Regional Partnerships Located in Milwaukee with peer institutions in Wisconsin and the Midwest, there is potential to pursue regional partnerships for shared services such as continuing education programs, marketing optimization, IT and HR outsourcing, or alumni networking platforms to improve scale and reduce costs for small to midsize colleges.