Admissions Operations Audit

Is your Admissions Office operating at maximum efficiency? Many institutions have improved their enrollment outcomes by improving business practices in Admissions, enabling them to provide the just-in-time services today’s students demand. An admissions operations audit by AACRAO Consulting will:
• Analyze admissions office procedures.
• Evaluate organizational structure, staff utilization, and technology.
• Provide action-oriented recommendations for improving service and […]

The Right Choice for Your Institutional Needs

In terms of selecting a consulting firm, AACRAO sets the standard for the profession. The organization has a great deal of credibility and is an objective resource. AACRAO Consulting recruits consultants that are at the top of their game.

AACRAO Consulting and SPSS Webinar Series: Proactively Identifying At-Risk Students Using Predictive Analytics

Please join AACRAO Consulting and SPSS for a special Webinar Series on At-Risk Students. This Webinar series is for college and university staff officers who are interested in learning strategies for proactively identifying and retaining at-risk students, and for those seeking methods for preventing the attrition of good students. The two part series […]

Gauge the Effectiveness of Your Financial Aid Planning Services

AACRAO Consulting offers a full range of financial aid services, delivered by experts with demonstrated knowledge of leading practices in financial aid packaging and funding strategies, business practices, and compliance. Best of all, our consultants bring a strategic enrollment perspective, ensuring integration of financial aid outcomes with the institution’s overall enrollment plan.

Senior AACRAO Consultant Stanley Henderson Receives AACRAO’s Founders Award for Leadership

AACRAO Senior Consultant Stanley Henderson was presented the Founders Award for Leadership at the 94th AACRAO Annual Meeting. The award is presented for vision, leadership, and longevity of service to the profession. This award is named in honor of those who founded AACRAO to meet the needs of the profession.

Senior AACRAO Consultant Wayne Sigler Receives APEX Award

Wayne Sigler, Director of Admissions at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities and Senior AACRAO Consultant, received the 2008 AACRAO APEX award at the 94th AACRAO Annual Meeting in Orlando, Florida. The award recognizes individuals for enhancing the administration and delivery of higher education through the effective management and use of information resources, namely […]

AACRAO 2008 Annual Meeting

AACRAO Consulting will exhibit at AACRAO’s 94th Annual Meeting. Please stop by and see us at booth #614.
Annual Meeting participants represent a range of professional roles from every sector of higher education, and from countries around the world including enrollment managers, admissions professionals, academic advisors, presidents, provosts, registrars, deans and faculty, student service professionals, […]

AC Launches Two New Service Areas Registrar’s Office Audit

Drawing from AACRAO’s status as the leading purveyor of enrollment services, our consultants conduct expert analysis of existing Registrar Office processes and make recommendations for achieving best-practice improvements. A registrar’s office audit by AACRAO Consulting will:
• Analyze registration and records processes.
• Evaluate organizational structure, staff utilization, and technology.
• Provide action-oriented recommendations for improving service and efficiency.
Contact us to […]

Financial Aid Planning

AACRAO Consulting offers a full range of financial aid services, delivered by experts with demonstrated knowledge of leading practices in financial aid packaging and funding strategies, business practices, and compliance. Best of all, our consultants bring a strategic enrollment perspective, ensuring integration of financial aid outcomes with the institution’s overall enrollment plan.
Specific consulting services include:

A Customized Approach

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 […]

Managing For Outcomes Featured in AACRAO’s College & University Journal

Dr. Wayne Sigler’s publication Managing for Outcomes: Shifting from Process-Centric to Results-Oriented Operations is featured in the latest issue of AACRAO’s College & University journal. Managing for Outcomes transforms process-oriented managers into successful outcomes-oriented leaders.

Enrollment or Enrolment: Implementing SEM in Canada

Join us for a specialized Webinar exploring the emergence of strategic enrolment management (SEM) in Canada and how its application has both replicated and differed from practices in U.S.-based institutions. The Webinar is aimed at both new and seasoned Canadian practitioners.

Organizational Models for Enrollment Management at Small Colleges

Small private colleges that are heavily tuition dependent are challenged each year to maintain and grow student enrollments. This longitudinal study investigates how certain colleges have structured enrollment management efforts in response. The results indicate that over the last several years there has been a significant migration to the enrollment management division model.

Bob Bontrager, Director of AACRAO Consulting, Participates in International Forum in Mongolia

Bob Bontrager, Director of AACRAO Consulting, was invited to participate in an international forum on vocational education held October 3-6, 2007 in the Bayankhongor province of Mongolia. Bontrager was invited by Yura Jigi, Head of the Association of Mongolian Technical and Professional Schools, and an attendee at last year’s Strategic Enrollment Management (SEM) Conference.

Planting the Seeds: A Community College Reaches out to Middle Schools

Enrollment management efforts should include short-term and long-range strategies. Those of us who spend our days engaged in various aspects of enrollment management can appreciate the balancing act this implies.
Short-term strategies can include developing programs for immediate job skill training related to local business and industry workforce needs, creating a new tuition payment plan […]

AC Director Bob Bontrager interviewed in the AACRAO MemberLink

Bob Bontrager is Director of AACRAO’s Strategic Enrollment Management (SEM) Conference and AACRAO Consulting.
In this interview, he talks about his roles within AACRAO, the SEM Conference coming in October, and some of the latest trends in Strategic Enrollment Management.

Back from the Brink: Bringing Graduate Admissions into the 21st Century

The traditional work of strategic enrollment management (SEM) has long focused on undergraduate recruitment, admission, enrollment, retention and graduation. A strategic approach to the recruitment and enrollment of graduate students is the exception, not the rule. Most enrollment managers are responsible only for undergraduate enrollment. And happily so—undergraduate enrollment management is exciting. It gives us […]

Managing for Outcomes: Shifting from Process-Centric to Results-Oriented Operations

Managing for Outcomes transforms process-oriented managers into successful outcomes-oriented leaders. Author Wayne Sigler, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, builds on his years of experience in higher education management to present the Outcome-Oriented Operations (Tri-O) Management System and its seven powerful components.