Strategic Enrolment Management

Since the early 1990s, registrars, admissions officers and student affairs professionals (and now presidents, provosts and deans) from throughout Canada have embraced strategic enrolment management (SEM) as a new way of confronting the educational challenges that face so many of us in today's post-secondary educational climate. The SEM paradigm encourages us to move out of the comfort provided by our respective silos and toward the development of intra- and inter-institutional perspectives--all with a focus on enhancing the student experience.

In 2008, a group of Canadian enrolment management leaders gathered in Ottawa to discuss how we might best move the SEM agenda forward in Canada. We agreed to create a Web site to gather the Canadian enrolment management literature in order to develop further support for and discussion about SEM in Canada. We hope that you will refer to this Web site often and send us items that can be posted here.

As a way of continuing our dialogue, SEM leaders from across Canada meet annually at the Canadian SEM Summit. In recent years, we have met in Ottawa, Vancouver and Halifax.  Session documents for each of these Summits are available on-line.  Location and dates for the 2011 Summit will be announced soon.  We hope you can join us at the 2011 Canadian SEM Summit!

All the best,
 

Clayton Smith

Susan Gottheil