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Strategic Enrollment Planning

  • Preparatory Meeting

    • Defined the scope and expectations of SEP.
    • Defined the SEP process, objectives, and timelines.
    • Aligned the SEP process with UM’s other strategic planning processes.
    • Identified those who will participate in the initial stages of the SEP process.
    • Identified preliminary planning assumptions, key performance indicators (KPIs), and data needs.
    • Working groups participated in a conference-style launch of the SEP process.
    • Working groups identified strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats in their respective focus areas and prepared for the development of situation analyses.
    • Revised the necessary data needs based on the working groups’ discussions.
    • Discussed each working groups’ situation analysis.
    • Identified potential SEP strategies.
    • Identified additional data needs.
    • Reviewed the action planning process and tools.
    • Incorporated enrollment-related PFAs into the SEP framework.
    • Solidified the alignment of academic planning and decision-making with the SEP process.
    • Identified the strategies to move forward to SEP action planning.
    • Identified the strategy action planning teams.
    • Equipped faculty and staff to utilize the SEP action planning tools.

  • Reviewed and sharpened the first set of SEP strategy action plans.

    • Reviewed and sharpened the second set of SEP strategy action plans.
    • Considered revisions to the first set of SEP strategy action plans.
    • Reviewed and considered the third set of SEP strategy action plans.
    • Considered revisions to the first and second set of SEP strategy action plans.
    • Preliminary prioritization of SEP strategies.
    • Considered revisions to all SEP strategy action plans.
    • Prioritized the strategies to recommend to leadership for implementation.
    • Discussed the transition from planning to implementation.
    • Leadership considered the strategies and the steering committee’s recommendations.
    • Leadership determines what strategies will move forward to implementation.