Posted by admin on February 24, 2009 Comments Off

The Connections SEM Conference

The Connections Strategic Enrolment Management (SEM) Conference was held on June 4 & 5, 2008 and focused on one of the biggest opportunities facing Ontario’s colleges - improving enrolment from non-direct entrants.
The conference materials below provide ideas and best practices explored during the event.

Conference Materials Click on the links below to download session materials.

Committee of Presidents’ Project

  • A Review of Recruitment & Admissions Processes
  • Recruitment & Admissions Practices: Top 10 Barriers
Gen Xers Return to College

  • Enrolment Strategies for a Maturing Population
The Second Career Initiative

  • Second Career Strategy
Career Exploration as an Outreach Strategy for Non-Direct Entrants

  • Rethinking Outreach: The Role of Career Exploration for Non-Direct Entrants
  • Planes, Trains and Automobiles: a Go to College Community Outreach Strategy
Private Colleges: What Do They Offer Non-Direct Entrants?

  • Private Colleges: What Do They Offer Non-Direct Entrants?
  • Ontario Colleges Competitive Capability Grid
  • Ontario’s Private Career Colleges – Links to More Information
Data Matters

  • A Profile of Non-Direct Entrants to Ontario Colleges (presentation)
  • A Profile of Non-Direct Entrants to Ontario Colleges (report)
  • The New OCAS Data Warehouse
  • OCAS Data Warehouse – Reporting and Analytics Terms
  • System Counts by Enrolment Stages
  • Program Grouping Reports
  • OCAS Enrolment Cycle
Responsive Programming

  • Responsive Programming
  • Ontario CAATs Responding to the Needs of Non-Direct Students
  • Responsive Programming for Non-Direct Students
  • Creating Responsive Programs
Segmented Communications Management

  • Targeting Your Message to Non-Direct Entrants
  • 0207 Number management
Is Your Institution Adult-Learner Friendly (ALFI)?

  • The ALFI strategy: enabling growth
  • ALFI: Overview
  • From my point of view…
  • ALFICan Guiding Principles
Understanding and Engaging Non-Direct Entrant Prospects

  • Understanding and Engaging Non-Direct Applicants
Organizational Change to Meet the Needs of Non-Direct Entrants

  • Organizational Change to Meet the Needs of Non-Direct Entrants

Resource Materials

Strategic Enrolment

  • Connecting Enrollment and Fiscal Management
  • How to Use Pertinent Decision Data in your Admissions Office to Enroll the Students You Want
  • Job Connect
  • Maximizing College Connections to Recruit Non-Direct Students College Upgrading
  • Sample report, College Literacy and Basic Skills and Academic Upgrading Programs
  • SEM Self-Assessment: Non-Direct Entrants
  • Perfecting Enrollment Strategies
Data & Research

  • Brief Summaries of Research Relevant to a Better Understanding of Non-Direct College Entrants
  • Environics Analytics, Post–Secondary Institution Uses PRIZM to Optimize Recruitment Efforts
Bringing Down the Barriers: Make the Connection

  • Colleges Integrating Immigrants to Employment (CIITE) Phase 3.1 Information
  • External Awards Listing for Non-direct Applicants
  • Invisible Barriers
Competitors & Responsive Programming

  • What Do We Know About Private Career Colleges?
Communications & Marketing

  • Government Relations and Non-Direct Entrants Project