The Enrollment Management Learning Collaborative can help you to:
- Develop a retention strategy to drive student success
- Implement data-driven early warning systems to reliably identify at-risk students
- Establish short-term and long-term strategies for improving retention among key student populations
- Generate buy-in from faculty and administrators who are crucial to successful retention initiatives
- Build new recruiting markets
- Identify new regions where you can leverage your institutional brand to attract new students
- Implement best practices for cultivating relationships with guidance counselors
- Understand how to best position your institution to compete for students in new markets
- Allocate resources to improve your EM operation's productivity
- Benchmark your EM budget, technology, and staffing against peers and national trends
- Make a more effective case for staffing and budgetary resources
- Enhance return on marketing and recruiting investments
- Understand where and how prospects are searching for colleges and how to most effectively communicate with target audiences
- Analyze the factors driving application and enrollment decisions to hone your recruiting strategies
- Train your admissions staff to reach target populations more effectively
- Cost Effective: The membership model allows members to access Eduventures' expert analysts and a peer network for a fraction of the cost of proprietary consulting. We save institutions time, money, and resources by utilizing our research and industry expertise to inform decisions and offer strategic solutions.
- 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 in 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 for increased institutional efficiency and effectiveness.
- 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 for our Annual Member Meeting and also participate in regular phone and web meetings and discussions about current issues.
- Members have online access to all research reports completed for the program. This rich archive provides just-in-time information to answer pressing questions or spawn a future custom study.
Customized Support
- You can consider Eduventures' expert analysts as an extension of your team. Analysts provide strategic brainstorming sessions, insights, and delivery of quick analysis and recommendations to members.
- Each member can commission customized research projects throughout the year. Eduventures' analysts work directly with members to design the investigation, deliver the analysis, and guide decision-making based on the results.
- Members can request strategy sessions with our expert advisors - we can work with your staff during a strategic planning retreat on campus or conduct the session via webinar. You can customize this benefit to best meet your institution's needs.
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"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
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