Summer Workshops

OrACRAO hosts workshops every year for support staff. Sessions are typically held on two days in various locations around the state to encourage the widest audience possible.

Contact James Miller, (541) 737-9217, for additional information.

Tuesday, August 4, 2009

Linn-Benton Community College
Albany Campus
Alsea/Calapooia Room, College Center-Second Floor
Albany, OR
Directions: http://www.linnbenton.edu/go/campus-maps/driving-directions
9:30 – 10:00: Check-in
10:00 – 11:45: Welcome and morning session
11:45 – 12:15: Lunch and networking
12:15 – 2:00: Afternoon session and wrap-up

Using SEM Principles to Navigate Difficult Economic Waters
Alicia Moore, Dean of Student and Enrollment Services, COCC; Senior Consultant, AACRAO
Reid Kisling, Registrar, George Fox University; Senior Consultant, AACRAO

With higher education facing unprecedented financial challenges, the need for innovative approaches to institutional operations has never been greater. Strategic enrollment management (SEM) offers a unique conceptual framework for enabling institutions not just to survive – but to thrive – in the current and future environments. SEM is not new but institutions are seeking increasing clarity as they face the unprecedented changes part of higher education today.

By promoting clarity of institutional mission from the perspective of student access and success, SEM provides a paradigm for cutting through the clutter of competing priorities to focus on mission-critical, long-term, intentional planning. The resulting alignment of institutional mission, enrollment goals, targeted investments, and budget outcomes enables planning that is more strategic, in turn leading to improved outcomes for the entire institution.

This workshop will focus on the basic tenets of strategic enrollment management (SEM), including understanding SEM planning models and the SEM life cycle, initiating a SEM team and planning process, utilizing critical data elements to develop institution-wide enrollment goals, and setting up SEM for long-term success.  Workshop content is applicable to all institutional types, including two-year/ four-year and public/private institutions and will provide the information needed to initiate (or reinvigorate!) the SEM process on your campus.

Institutions are encouraged to bring teams.

Workshop materials:
OrACRAO 2009 SEM Summer Workshop
SEM Readiness Audit-AACRAO Consulting
SEM Case Studies

 

Previous Workshops:
Being the Frontline
Myers-Briggs: A Key to Workplace Relationships
Clackamas Community College
August 7, 2008

From Access to Success: Undocumented Students and Higher Education
Myers-Briggs: A Key to Workplace Relationships
Rogue Community College
August 6, 2008

You Want Me to Measure What? Outcomes and Assessment Planning for Admissions & Registrar Offices. 
Clackamas Community College
October 17, 2007