Last month, we offered the first six tips from a Top 12 list of tips and action items to help you enhance your HR practices this summer. We'll present the final six this month before taking a break for the summer.

Your campus may seem quiet during the summer months, when your students and faculty are away; however, your Admission Office is probably looking to fill those last few seats for the fall. That means summer admission and campus visits. If you have a summer program, your campus will have some activity, but it's not what goes on during the school year. Here are some tips to prepare your campus for summer visits that will give your prospective families an idea of what they will experience when school is in session!

The term "assistant" logically denotes "aide." Your Assistant Head can take the pressure off you by tackling some of the many—and growing—demands on your time. Unfortunately, the role of the Assistant Head is often somewhat nebulous which hampers success.

Cross-channel marketing (or integrated marketing) is a core principle in today's marketing. There are simply more ways to reach your target audience than there were a decade ago. However, more channels of communication doesn't necessarily mean more reach to potential students. With more ways to communicate with families, it's essential that your school's message stays consistent across mediums. Seems like it would be easy enough to post the same message in the same tone on different platforms, but even large marketing firms struggle with cross-channel marketing.

It's true: the economy is making a slow recovery—a very slow recovery. Analysts' predictions are all over the place, but if you take everything they're saying and find a happy medium, it's safe to say the U.S. is on a track to recovery—it is just going to take longer than some of us (most of us) had hoped. As the economy takes its' time recovering, international students trying to cover new university costs are struggling to find work opportunities.

Here we are at the end of the school year, and for those who conduct an end-of-year fund-raising phonathon, the question is: Do you call parents who may have had a less-than-perfect experience with your school this year? One answer is no. After all, you will have a volunteer calling the disgruntled parent who will probably be more than willing to "dish the dirt." And the volunteer will have no knowledge of the issue at hand, and will be unable to help. Your volunteers are people who are dedicated to the school and you want them to have a pleasant experience interacting with the people they are calling.

Q: I am looking at taking an intro to grant writing Webinar. Are there any Webinars on the topic that you can recommend?

If part of your job includes the duties of a Facilities Manager, then you're probably aware of the challenges of space. You need fields for your sports teams, labs for your science students, updated math facilities to meet the technological advances, and perhaps even space for a community garden. Yet, your geography could have your plans for progress at a stand-still. You can't move the whole school!

Now that the season is finally in transition, images of grilled organic vegetables might be dancing in your head. Of course, what goes better with spring and summer than backyard grilling and picnics? Barbecue grills can even be an ecofriendly option for you and your family, so if the mere thought of grilled food makes your mouth water, it's time to treat yourself to delicious and healthy meals.

Hot off the presses on May 19 was the news that enrollment in health saving accounts linked to high-deductible insurance plans (they must be linked by law) had grown to 10 million people. Since 2004, when a law added Medicare's prescription drug benefits to health saving accounts (HSA), enrollment has been steadily increasing. (It's almost a new trend in the insurance world!) And, there are no signs that enrollments will slow down or start to plateau looking ahead.