We help institutions improve recruiting, admissions, enrollment, and retention and enhance the student experience to fulfill their mission.
Never has competition for new students and retaining existing students been so critical to the viability of an institution. Changing influences in the world such as demographics, technology, industry and workforce needs, funding streams, competition, and the recent pandemic are forcing institutions to rethink and adapt enrollment and student experience services. Historically non-traditional student populations are rapidly becoming the new traditional student.
In response to the vast changes facing higher education, institutions must be more intentional and strategic in pursuits of enrollment and positive student experiences. All institutions need a comprehensive, multidimensional approach to defining and executing strategies on recruiting, admissions, enrollment and student experience services, and retention to address increased educational options, competition for students, and need for holistic support services.
We help institutions answer critical questions about enrollment and student experiences to identify each institution’s unfair advantage, define target student populations and services, understand students and their needs, and support student success.
TSI uses a variety of strategies to work with our clients to better identify, understand, and respond to their enrollment and student experience needs. These strategies include assessing and improving student life-cycle and enrollment services, evaluating services provided, leveraging and aligning data to impact enrollment management, assessing organizational culture, defining the student experience, and assessing and aligning services offered with student expectations.
Our team of expert consultants, who have experience studying, researching, and holding professional positions in higher education, are at your service to help target your university’s greatest needs, or even help assess what those needs might be. We strive to gain information about current and desired enrollment methods and processes and gather the experiences of both internal and external stakeholders and students. Our services target the entire enrollment life-cycle from recruitment, to admissions, financial aid, registration, and advising. Another approach is to help illuminate the student experience to focus operations and services about learning outcomes, curriculum design, student services and support, technology, university life, and the physical university environment to provide clarity about and improvements for how experiences are delivered.
Our team aims to help institutions determine their optimal target population, understand the experiences of their students (from recruitment through graduation), discover moments that matter to stakeholders, students, and staff, level set expectations for services and experiences, and uncover best practices for marketing to, attracting, and serving students. To do this, we will implement a variety of tools such as process improvement methodologies, change management, cultural change management, organizational and operational assessments, focus groups, constituent experience sessions, interviews, SWOT analysis, technology assessment, and institutional bench-marking among others.
The following are the most frequent service areas we employ to help our higher education Enrollment and Student Experience Constituents:
Our experienced consultants work to gain a clear understanding of your enrollment and student experience current state processes, organizational and departmental objectives and goals, and ideal future state. Using the information garnered, combined with our team’s expertise and the perspectives of key institutional subject matter experts, we develop a customized set of actionable recommendations to support the movement towards set goals.
We recognize that resources are limited and efforts for meeting departmental and institutional goals are immense. We will work with you to optimize a budget that accommodates your budgetary needs while allowing for thorough, high-quality services to meet your mission and goals.
Yes. In order to best meet your needs and ensure high-quality services, TSI uses methodologies that are flexible and customizable and can easily be implemented remotely.