Strategic Enrolment Management
Colleges and universities 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.
Since 2008, a group of Canadian enrolment management leaders have gathered 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, Halifax and Quebec City. Session documents for each of these Summits are available on-line. We hope you can join us at the 2012 Canadian SEM Summit. The next Summit is planned for April 22-24, 2012 in Vancouver, where we will focus on SEM & Internationalization: Enhancing the International Student Experience. Click here for more details.
All the best,
SEM Summit 2011 - Comments
"The summit provides a valuable opportunity to connect with others and to hear some of the interesting initiatives they are involved with on their campus. You then have the opportunity to follow up with these individuals later. I particularly enjoy the wide mix of individuals in attendance this year as most areas of ps were represented." - Alice MacKichan, Mt. Royal University
"The advantage of the Summit experience is that our discussions are at a relatively high level and focus on issues that are made in Canada. We're talking with each other on topics that almost always matter to all of us." - Peter Dueck, University of Manitoba
"My first time! A great experience." - Julie Ross, Université du Québec