Strategic Enrollment Planning

Strategic Enrollment Planning (SEP) is a collaborative, comprehensive, data-driven process through which EIU will develop strategies to enable it to set and meet its enrollment goals. The SEP initiative is led by a Steering Committee which reports to President Perry, and it is supported by a Planning Council that includes broad representation from each vice presidential area and key governance groups.

In Phase I, SEP will focus on developing strategies to improve traditional undergraduate student enrollments; subsequent phases will focus on graduate and nontraditional student enrollments. The long-term Strategic Enrollment Plan that results from this process will form an integral portion of Envision EIU, the University's larger Strategic Plan, which set the stage for SEP with its goal to "Maintain stable enrollments consistent with previous studies on institutional capacity (11,600 to 11,800 headcount)."

Strategic Enrollment Process

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Where we are now

In July, members of the Steering Committee met with the Noel-Levitz consultant to define the scope and expectations of SEP and to identify the performance indicators on which decision-making would be based. In September, the Steering Committee reviewed and refined these indicators and related data, while Planning Council subcommittees drafted “SWOT” statements and identified additional data and research needs. In November, members convened to share constituents' feedback on the SWOT statements, review the results of the research projects, develop situation analyses that “flesh out” the SWOTs, and begin crafting goals and strategies. Subsequent to a campus forum on SEP in January, the Steering Committee and team leaders from the Planning Council met to refine the list of over one hundred strategies. The current draft, "SEP Strategies (4-23-13)," is available in the "Documents" folder (see the link at the top of this page).

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Where we’re going next

We held our second SEP Forum on April 23rd. You can access our presentation, "SEP Forum #2," in the Documents folder. Our most recent SEP visit occurred May 6-7, when we continued to craft detailed action plans designed to help us implement the strategies we've developed. (See the May SEP report in the documents folder.) Our goal is to complete the undergraduate Strategic Enrollment Plan by August 2013, and to share it with the campus community in the fall semester.

Questions?

Feel free to contact our committee members.