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strategic enrollment management

Announcing Course Forecast

Announcing Course Forecast: an innovative tool that brings multi-year, scenario-based planning capabilities to course offerings. Designed to help institutions stay agile, Course Forecast provides key insights that support efficient, data-driven decisions in a dynamic enrolment landscape.

What Impact Does Course Compaction Have on Student Success?

We’ve been revisiting what we mean by course compaction, how to measure it, and evaluate whether courses are too compacted or not enough, and what student-success-sponsoring course compaction looks like.

Brace for Impact: Projecting International Enrolment Declines in Atlantic Canadian Universities

The ripple effects of international enrolment declines will be felt across budgets, programming, and staffing. Yet, hard times have often been the catalyst for strategic reinvention.

Is New Brunswick Being Shortchanged on International Student Allocation?

With major changes to Canada’s international student visa allocation rules beginning this year, it has been an exciting/nerve-wracking period for enrolment planning in Canada. This analysis suggests New Brunswick is being short-changed on allocations relative to their share of the population.

On the hot seat. Pitching Plaid Analytics.

Within Canadian higher education, everyone has heard about the international study permit changes. In the tech community, many have but they are less familiar with the impacts. Taking the time to explain it to an audience outside of higher ed has helped me think through the core message.

Own Your Decision-Making Flaws: Tips for SEM Leaders

Most leadership teams and planning committees are made up of the core data users. But leaders may not understand their own decision-making habits and are unable to describe their data needs. Leaders are better able to contribute to data strategy discussions when they know the underlying issues.

Understanding Institutional Micropolitics: Tips for SEM Leadership

Implementing strategic enrolment management at any institution is a political process. When institutions lean into, and explore this reality, they are quicker to garner support from employees and administrators for SEM, and are better prepared to implement a SEM framework.

A Tale of Two Provinces: Projecting Enrolment Impacts of Study Permit Changes in Alberta and British Columbia

It’s not too often that the federal government makes a policy that so directly benefits one province over most others (technically two provinces will have large growth: Alberta and Quebec, but we think the latter will struggle to hit their higher target near term).

Modelling Impacts of International Study Permit Changes in Canada

Since summer, the Canadian federal government has been musing about cutting back on new international student study permits. Well, it finally happened. This post discusses some of the potential impacts, and provides an forecast of how enrolments will change as a result of this new policy.

Beyond the Strategic Enrolment Plan: Examples of Target Setting Processes in the Frameworks

Aside from assessing the weight-bearing capacity of the framework, introducing a new process or task for strategic enrolment management differs between the four frameworks. In this post we’ll review how institutions who want to implement enrolment targets would do so in each of the frameworks.