A Customized Approach

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Studio Art Centers International (SACI) located in Florence, Italy operates as a U.S. non-profit educational institution for undergraduate and graduate university-level students seeking fully accredited studio art and liberal arts instruction in Italy. It is considered one of the world’s most venerable study-abroad programs for the arts.

SACI contracted with AACRAO Consulting to conduct an in-depth analysis of SACI’s U.S. enrollment service operations. Those operations include recruitment, marketing, admissions, registration, financial aid, and technology systems to support those functions. AACRAO Consulting’s analysis also included the logistical aspects of operating an office: personnel management and payroll, obtaining and maintaining office equipment, and leasing space.

The AACRAO Consulting team offered SACI a customized approach that was extensive in scope and which included a director-level AACRAO executive working for SACI for a three-month period. The interim director assisted SACI in refining business practices, hiring new staff, identifying and moving to new office space, developing new personnel policies, revising recruitment and marketing activities, and selecting a customer relationship management system.

The SACI executives were very pleased by the work conducted by AACRAO Consulting and by the outcome of the project. SACI executives give a great deal of credit to AACRAO Consulting for assisting the organization in analyzing, suggesting, and implementing improvements to its operations. “AACRAO consultants performed a comprehensive and thoroughly professional assessment of SACI’s U.S. operations which was of great value to our organization.”

–David Davidson, Dean of SACI, SACI Studio Arts Centers International

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Posted on January 25, 2008