Strategic Enrollment Management: Building Institutional Vitality

Strategic enrollment management. This three-word phrase is increasingly used as colleges and universities search for effective responses to today’s enrollment and financial challenges. Strategic enrollment management, or SEM, was originally conceived as institutions struggled to cope with declining demographics. More recently it has gained prominence in response to increased institutional accountability and constrained resources. Implementation […]

Gauging Your Institution’s Enrollment Management Condition

How Is Our Institution Doing?
Even the most casual observer of American higher education has noted the continued turbulent environment. In the short-term, the uncertain economy has contributed mightily to operating deficits, forcing many schools to respond with personnel reductions and sizable increases in tuition and fees.