Position Your Institution to Lead in a Changing Landscape
Strategic Enrollment Management (SEM) has become essential as institutions navigate shifting demographics, evolving funding models, and increased expectations around student outcomes. However, many institutions begin SEM planning without the systems, data, or governance needed to support it, leading to delays, inefficiencies, and missed goals.
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AACRAO Consulting, in partnership with Education Strategy Group (ESG), helps institutions build a strong foundation for SEM through a comprehensive readiness assessment. This work bridges strategy and operations by combining ESG’s expertise in policy and workforce alignment with AACRAO’s deep experience in admissions, registrar services, and enrollment management.
The assessment focuses on identifying gaps, aligning stakeholders, and preparing institutions to move forward with confidence. It includes a review of current processes, systems, and structures, along with recommendations to strengthen coordination, improve data use, and support effective decision-making.
A strong SEM foundation helps institutions improve enrollment outcomes, reduce costly missteps, and better connect academic programs to workforce and student needs. It also ensures that future SEM planning efforts are more efficient, sustainable, and aligned with institutional goals.
Through this partnership, institutions receive a clear roadmap for building internal capacity, strengthening operations, and positioning themselves for long-term enrollment success.
Download the Rigorous SEM Readiness Assessment PDF
Testimonial
ACRAO Consultants bring a natural talent, skill and communication style that elicit trust. It’s obvious they know what they’re talking about. They helped us identify many gaps in our recruitment, admissions and yield processes in a way that was both respectful and straight-forward. The recommendations they provided were practical and implementable, which kept our staff from feeling overwhelmed.
—Mary Keenan, Associate Vice Chancellor of Enrollment Management, University of Minnesota, Duluth