The Eduventures Enrollment Management Learning Collaborative (EM-LC) brings enrollment management executives together with their peers from other institutions to exchange best practices and to find solutions for shared challenges such as marketing, recruitment, financial aid, and retention processes.
The Enrollment Management Learning Collaborative can help you to:
Recruit students effectively by surveying prospective students, evaluating existing marketing materials, and sharing peer best practices
Save money and increase efficiency by benchmarking peer spending, resource allocation, and operational design
Retain current students by assessing current campus climate, surveying students, and identifying retention risk factors on your campus
Identify best practices for leveraging financial aid during an economic downturn
Kim Reid explores the significant role that parents play in their children's college search process.
Cost Effective: The membership model allows members to access Eduventures' expert analysts and peer network for a fraction of the cost of proprietary consulting.
Increased Efficiency: By learning from peers, members reduce the risk of reinventing the wheel when addressing challenges or launching new initiatives. Additionally, Eduventures' analysts conduct thorough preliminary research for members to help them allocate limited resources effectively. Finally, our team can help university leaders to decipher and analyze the wealth of data that often exists in house, but is not fully used due to resource constraints.
Wisdom of Experience: Eduventures focuses exclusively on higher education, making our team of analysts and practitioners some of the country's leading experts on the sector. (See where our experts have been quoted.) Additionally, through our membership programs, we are in regular contact with thousands of practitioners in the field to ensure the relevance and timeliness of our analysis.
Multi-layered Support: We know that campus leaders have a diverse set of challenges, be they recruiting and retaining students, launching new degree programs, or securing resources. Our peer network, broad research into shared challenges, institution-specific analysis, and one-on-one guidance offer members a complex system of support to meet any challenge effectively.
Collaboration With Peers
Each member is immediately linked into a dynamic peer network to exchange best practices and share solutions to common challenges.
Members set a research agenda for Eduventures' expert analysts to carry out. We conduct 2-3 membershipwide research projects each year to delve deeply into the most pressing challenges our members face.
Members come together in person once a year and participate in regular phone and web meetings and discussions about current issues.
Members have online access to all research reports completed for the program.
Customized Support
You can consider Eduventures' expert analysts as an extension of your team. They are always available by phone to brainstorm, provide insight, and deliver quick analysis and recommendations to members.
Each member can commission customized research projects at any time. Eduventures' analysts work directly with members to design the investigation, deliver the analysis, and guide decision-making based on the results.
Our expert advisors visit each of our members once a year to provide in-person guidance -- whether working with staff during a strategic planning retreat or presenting market research results and recommendations to institutional leaders. Our campus visits are one of the most popular and valuable components of membership.
Interested in becoming a member of the Enrollment Management Learning Collaborative? Contact us to get started.
Program Director Kim Reid discusses the work of the Enrollment Management Learning Collaborative
"I have been very pleased with how Eduventures has jumped in to help institutions deal with the economic downturn and budgets. We have involved someone in every offering you have from the roundtables to the research and have found all the activities very valuable."
Brenda Thompson
Assistant Vice President for Enrollment Management
West Virginia University
