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Hi class,

I'm the director of the Senate Office and the head of the academic governance staff for the University of BC. I spend a lot of my time drafting, reviewing, advising, and interpreting academic policies and regulations and know a lot about that.

I would like to learn more about finance and budget in higher education. UBC has the traditional Board/Senate university divide and so this is the side of the house I haven't had to care much about yet in my work except at a very high (institutional) and very low (my own unit) level.

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Welcome everyone! I'm currently the manager of admissions and enrolment services at RRU, and used to be involved in marketing, recruitment, and program administration. I feel I have a fairly good understanding of some aspects of SEM, or at least I hope so as it seems to account for a lot of my time :)

Having only worked at RRU during my HE career, I'm interested in learning about the 'business' side of HE as it's evolving - everything from varying practices and organisational designs, to unique challenges institutions are facing and the innovative ways they are responding to the ever-shifting landscape, including the increasing focus on internationalisation.

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Hello everyone,

My name is Tomi  Idowu and I am new to this class and to padlet. I have been living and working as a teacher in Asia for the last 7 years. I am currently working in China as a high school teacher and vice principal and taught in South Korea for three years.

My main goal in this course is to learn more about international education, student recruitment and the business side of running an international institution. I hope to learn from everyone as I am a high school teacher who is taking an interest in learning the business side of international student recruitment and education.

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Hi!
I'm enjoying the last few days in sunny hot Jamaica. I'm not looking forward to returning to the cold.

I’ve been working as career practitioner/educator since 2009. In 2015, I began working as a faculty member in the Co-op and Career Development Centre at Langara College. I enjoy teaching international students how to navigate through Canada’s career landscape.

I would like to learn more about the administrative side to higher education. I am fairly new to the world of higher education and how to navigate through the at times “political” landscape.
In addition, our collective agreement is up for bargaining next year, so I anticipate there will be a lot to learn leading up to bargaining.

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Hello again everyone.

I currently work in the institutional research department at Mount Royal University. I'm a numbers monkey, the black-box from where institutional scorecards come from.

Something I think I can bring to the course is insight into the somewhat nebulous nature of evaluating SEM. How do you measure success? How can it be measured it in real time? How is this stuff even tracked?

What I'm hoping to get out of this course is a better understanding of how SEM processes get planned and why they get launched. I'm used to hearing a lot about the outcomes of these processes, but I very seldom hear how they get developped.

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Hi everyone,

My name is Madeline and I am the Project Management Lead at the Grande Prairie Regional College. Right now I am the Project Manager on four different software implementations.

Something I know quite a bit about is residence and housing, as I previously worked in residence operations. Our residence played an important role in recruiting students and also creating revenue for our school so I would be happy to share any knowledge I can about that. Unrelated to higher education, I know  a lot about Ontario's woodland animals (from working at a conversation area during my undergrad), so if you're looking for fun facts about animals in Ontario, let me know ;).

Something I hope to learn about is strategic enrolment management as I don't think I've really worked with this in my experience. But since GPRC is working towards degree granting status I am interested to learn more on this topic.

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Hello all!  I work in an interdisciplinary research centre at UBC in Vancouver. In my role, I spend much of my time working with stakeholder groups such as research faculty, trainees, the health authority, granting agencies and commercial partners. Financial sustainability is a consistent concern as an unfunded unit so I have a lot of experience in business activities related to revenue generation that I am happy to share with the class. The areas that I am keen to understand better are  related to educational delivery and broader institutional goals - ways and means. Working in the research enterprise means I am typically quite disconnected from the larger mission of the university and I find it a limiting perspective when I an considering our internal operating model.

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Hi everyone, I am excited to be back after a long break! I work in the VP Academic office as the Office Coordinator at Vancouver Community College in B.C. The last few months I have been engrossed with ensuring the College is ready for a ministry quality assurance process audit. Planning, follow through, measuring success and identifying areas for improvement either in policy or department practices are areas I am comfortable with.
We are in the process of identifying short and long term SEM goals for the College. I am really interested in learning how others are handling SEM as SEM involves everyone and could be challenging to manage.
Thank you.

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Hi all from sunny Germany (sorry Edmontonians)!
I currently lead the Undergradute Student Services team in the Faculty of ALES at the U of A. I have been in my role for four years. Throughout this time it has become evident to me that the U of A caters their degree programs to traditional students. However, student demographics are shifting and the institution does not seem to be keeping up with this trend. To remain competitive and equally accessible to a broad range of students, new delivery models must be explored. I look forward to learning how institutions can bridge this gap.

I think I can share my experience and knowledge during unit 6, as I have been exposed to the enrolment and recruitment process in my current position.

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Like Sarah, I too am well-versed in managing curly hair...

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Like Sarah, I too am well-versed in managing curly hair...

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Hi all,
I'm a Program Manager in our Continuing Education dept at Mohawk College. I was an instructor for 5 years at Niagara College and have also spent outside of the HE sector (private and non-profit sectors).

Working in CE, we're consistently pushing boundaries with new academic and partnership models. I think I can contribute most to our learning during unit 2 (new models), and hope to glean knowledge and experience from our group during unit 6 (SEM).

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Hello all! I've been working with Weill Cornell University-Qatar for about 2.5 as an Academic Advisor. Most of my career has been in Student Services/Student Affairs so I think that is one area I can talk about. Since I work in a branch campus of a US private medical college, I am happy to shed some light on this unique experience.

Some of the areas I hope to learn about strategic enrolment management, enrolment planning, recruitment, and the business side of higher education.

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A sunshiny yellow hello to all of my fellow classmates and Roberta!

I have been employed at Grande Prairie Regional College since 2000.  I have held various roles in our Student Services department - most recently the role of Financial Aid Coordinator for the past ten years.

Although my title includes the word "finance", I really only deal with students' finances: scholarships, loans, grants, awards, etc.  I have a lot to learn about the "financial" side of running an institution and I am very much looking forward to expanding my knowledge in that area.

I feel I have quite an extensive knowledge of Student Services including processes for inquiries, admission, registration, advising, student records, financial aid, accessibility and disability services and timetabling.  Two weeks ago I also learned the telltale signs of appendicitis and subsequent appendectomy!  Good times, good times!

I'm excited to dig into a new course and continue learning and building relationships with all of you!

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Well hello everyone,

Many of you know me but for those don't, I work at Red Deer College and am coming up on my 13th year there! I am an Advising & Recruiting Specialist for the School of Arts & Sciences (fancy word for enrolment management), and I feel I'll be able to share a lot of good information as we get near the end of the course as Units 5-7 are part of my daily life of advising, recruiting, and retaining students. So just as you all are getting tired from all the work, I'm there to carry you through!

I love learning about strategic enrolment management (big fan of Ruffalo-Levitz), so looking forward to learning even more about that.

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I'm definitely glad that I didn't post first because my initial inclination was to say that I know a lot about (1) managing curly hair (it's even harder than it looks); (2) running half marathons slowly (I've run 27 but have only ever broken 2 hours once); etc.  However, you have all taken a more serious approach, so I will do that too.

I know quite about about the operation of the Office of the Registrar.  Currently I am Associate Registrar Enrolment Services, with specialization in admissions and SEM.  There is a lot in this course that resonates with my day to day life, and, like Sue H (welcome Sue!), I am especially interested in labour relations and the function of our collective agreeements.

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In my nine years at RDC, I have worked in the School of Continuing Education in 3 different roles. As we are a cost recovery department, I have a strong working knowledge of administration from a non-credit perspective and how and why that looks different from credit programing.

I am interesting in learning about new alternatives to higher education and what this will mean for how programming is delivered in the future.  I am always curious to learn more about how technology can support the work we do each day and how it continually pushes us to change.

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I have worked for Durham College, an Ontario community college, for the last 17 years. The wealth of my experience has been in our Strategic Enrolment department working with prospective students. The last three and half years, my role has been to coordinate a Ministry funded program that assists at-risk high school students with their transition to post-secondary education. My previous roles have provided me with a strong working knowledge of recruitment strategies, strategic enrolment, and the delivery and importance of student services.

In Ontario, our college system recently went through a lengthy faculty labour disruption, and as of April 1st, the ‘Equal Pay for Equal Work’, Bill 148 has come into affect.  This legislation will increase the wages of Part-time & Sessional faculty dramatically!  As well, as of March 1st I have accepted a management role with the department. In light of these recent events, I am very interested in learning more about labour relations and institutional financial viability.

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Since I have been involved with students most of my career (over 12 years in HE), I know a lot about student development and teaching.

What I would like to learn in the course (and the MAHEAL program in general) is the administrative and business side of HE; all of that is new to me and there is so much to learn!

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Some things I’m well aware of? Private institution regulations in BC and student satisfaction through delivery of student services (especially career services). Also because I’m in a small institution and have owned a school previous, I naturally take on a cross-department role, being the person who tries to connect things together and mitigate risk and negative impacts to students and staff.

What am I wanting to learn from others? Throughout the program, I’ve really enjoyed learning about the complexity of everyone’s worlds. I’m looking forward to the SEM portion of this course in particular and hearing from others’ experiences. As well as the collective bargaining topics.

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I am a First Nations person from Saskatchewan.  I work with the First Nations University of Canada.  My position is the Registrar and I have been in this position since 2013.  I have been at the institution since 1993 and have worked my way up to this position through the my continued years of service.

I think I know a lot about First Nations desires in education and roles of the Registrar's Office.  I've always worked in the area of student services and registration.

I want to learn more about institutional planning, institutional viability, and SEM planning.

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I have been in a variety of positions at NAIT, instructional, program leadership and 6 years in management of 2 different schools. I think I have a fairly good handle on the administration of academics both program and school level. Saying that there is plenty to learn.

the enrollment management is one part of the business that I have not spent much time working in so I look forward to learning more there