Cultivating Advising Success: A Strategic Approach to the Advising Review
Taking the time to do an advising review is key to both determining how much of a restructure is necessary, and to determine what kind of model to restructure to.
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Cultivating Advising Success: Structural Models
Many post-secondary institutions have a mandate to serve their local community as well as international students, so the advising approach must be designed to meet the needs of both groups. Many institutions practicing strategic enrolment management choose to go with a hybrid model for this reason.
Cultivating Advising Success: Theoretical Approaches
Academic advising has gone through three main theoretical evolutions: Problem-based, Prescriptive-based, and Developmental advising. Best practices for advising may differ depending on the educational offerings and community they services, many institutions are moving to a Developmental approach.
Cultivating Advising Success: Should You Restructure Your Advising?
The solution to a struggling advising unit is not always a redesign; while restructuring can be an obvious way to show students you as an institution are addressing the challenges, it can be less effective than taking a more strategic, holistic approach to understanding the units’ challenges.
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.
Beyond the Strategic Enrolment Plan: Indicators of a Resilient Framework
The more highly structured a framework, the more decision-approval and accountability is transparent, and data is evident in proposal development and assessment. An institution with a SEM plan can be responsive regardless of framework.
Beyond the Strategic Enrolment Plan: Framework Challenges & Knowing when to Restructure
When SEM becomes a struggle beyond a single process, or when multiple targets seem unachievable, the framework may no longer be able to bear the weight the institution requires.
Beyond the Strategic Enrolment Plan: Uniting Academics and Administration in SEM Frameworks
Many post-secondary institutions struggle with bridging communication and decision-making between the Academic Units and Financial or Administrative perspectives. SEM plans are tools to align perspectives and priorities, and frameworks provide the structure for building together.
Beyond the Strategic Enrolment Plan: An Introduction to SEM Frameworks & Why They Matter
As the car picked up speed and passed the other, I couldn’t help but see the parallels with Strategic Enrolment Management planning and structure theory in higher education. A SEM plan is built appropriately for its frame, supported by an effective pit crew, and steered by a skilled driver.
Enrolment Forecasting in Support of SEM
SEM prompts consideration of the many variables, both academic and administrative, that impact a student’s experience, progress, and future enrolment. Data, or the lack thereof, influences an institution's ability to define what future student populations may look like.