SEM Award of Excellence
Sponsored by Education Systems, Inc.
Deadline for submissions: July 31, 2009
The SEM Award of Excellence (SAE) is a peer-review awards program that recognizes outstanding achievement and visionary leadership in strategic enrollment management.
Information About the Award
- Nomination Forms
- Introduction
- Eligibility
- Nomination Process
- Selection Criteria
- Deadline
- Sponsor
- Questions?
Introduction
The purposes of the SAE Awards are to:
- Provide formal recognition to exemplary SEM professionals.
- Establish benchmarks and models for SEM practice.
- Promote the core values of student access and success within SEM.
- Contribute to the ongoing development of the SEM profession.
One SAE will be awarded each year to three SEM professionals representing:
- A two-year institution in the U.S.
- A four-year institution in the U.S.
- A Canadian institution
Recipients will be presented with the distinguished SAE plaque and a $1,000 cash award at AACRAO's Strategic Enrollment Management (SEM) Conference.
Eligibility
Eligibility for the SEM Award of Excellence will include persons currently or previously employed in enrollment positions at a postsecondary institution.
Nomination Process
All nomination materials can be mailed to:
American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers
Attention: Nicole Spero
One Dupont Circle, NW Suite 520
Washington, DC 20036
or submitted by email to speron@aacrao.org. Please include cover letters with all submission materials.
Required nomination materials will include:
- Enrollment statistics for a period of 5-to-10 years documenting institutional enrollment goals and performance in relation to those goals. Statistics will include, at minimum, annual numbers for total FTE and headcount enrollment, the number of new students, and first-to-second year retention rates, with these data stratified according to any profile goals maintained by the institution.
- Graduation rates
- Two-year schools: AA/AS completion and transfer rates.
- Four-year schools: 4-, 5-, and 6-year BA/BS completion rates.
- Graduate/professional schools: comparable evidence of program completion.
- Descriptions of new recruitment and retention programs or initiatives that generated more favorable enrollment outcomes. Descriptions should be limited to 100 words for each program or initiative.
- Three letters of reference from: the nominee's President/Chancellor, the nominee's immediate supervisor (if not the President/Chancellor), and a SEM professional from outside the nominee's institution. If the President/Chancellor is the immediate supervisor, a second letter should be provided from an institutional colleague.
Letters should speak to the nominee's success in:
- Meeting or exceeding the institution's enrollment goals, whether that involved increasing enrollment numbers or altering the student profile.
- Ability to engage a campus-wide effort to enhance enrollment.
- Increasing student access and success.
Selection Criteria
SAE recipients will be selected on these criteria:
- Magnitude of change from prior enrollment results to improved results, based on the institution's goals, including improvement in both recruitment and retention numbers.
- Degree of campus-wide engagement.
- Contributions to SEM literature and other professional development.
Deadline
Deadline for submissions: July 31, 2009. Recipients will be notified by August 31, 2009.
Sponsorship
The SEM Award of Excellence is jointly sponsored by AACRAO and Education Systems, Inc.
ESI Education Systems, Inc. (ESI) is a leading provider of customizable, solution-oriented, higher education enrollment management software and "best practices" consultative services. For more than ten years, ESI has been solely focused on providing universities, colleges, and community colleges with enrollment management opportunities. ESI systems have been carefully refined by leading education and educational-software development professionals, and are based on direct consulting experience with more than 500 colleges and university enrollment teams. ESI is uniquely focused on promoting the success of the enrollment management professional, as the ESI board of development and trustees is made up entirely of higher education client customer colleagues.
Questions?
If you have questions please contact Nicole Spero, Associate Director, AACRAO Consulting at 202-355-1056 or speron@aacrao.org.