Strategic enrollment management

• Students are faced with a variety of new options, different from their parents’ dorm rooms.
• Previous research has found a lack of student socialization spaces negatively affects students’ academic performance and well-being.

Space affects academic performance and well-being

• Firstly, students’ proximity to campus matters for developing positive relations with faculty and with the campus community.
• Paradoxically, both universities with private partners and private developers alone are marketing increased privacy in student accommodations, in response to perceived demand.
• Many privacy-oriented apartments house only one or two students, but privacy is a questionable benefit for students.

Measuring privacy

• To study students’ experience of privacy and socialization, we developed a scale of six levels, called the Hierarchy of Isolation and Privacy in Architecture Tool (HIPAT).
• In a second study we created a taxonomy to classify students’ rooms and living facilities defined by their lived experience, called Housing Unit Classification (HUC).

Inhibiting resilient networks

• Over half the residences (23) were selected for more detailed study of privacy and socialization opportunities, and how they changed over time.
• Describing the privacy and socialization spaces of each residence permits us to classify how much the built space of residences enable students to socialize with new people and create resilient networks.


Reports on student housing construction show that there is a trend towards building more suites and apartments. These are not built with the common spaces of traditional residences that have historically facilitated socialization and been positively associated with higher GPA and well-being.

Privacy is not a luxury

• Student residences built in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom over the past 20 years prioritize privacy and risk isolation to accommodate perceived student preferences.
• This trend is to the detriment of students’ social spaces, and should be questioned.
• Universities and developers need to focus on building student housing that fosters community building in order for socialization and new relationships to occur.

• SchoolMint, the leading provider of online student enrollment platforms for K-12 districts and charter management organizations, today announced the release of SchoolMint Enroll 2.0.
• This major software update introduces a host of new features and enhancements that solidify SchoolMint Enroll's position as the premier online enrollment system in K-12.
• With more than three million student applications processed and trusted by the majority of U.S. charter management organizations, SchoolMint Enroll has become synonymous with excellence in enrollment management.
• Now, with version 2.0, SchoolMint Enroll takes enrollment management to new heights, offering functionalities that no other system can match.

• The solutions aim to change how institutions meet enrollment goals and support students’ success throughout their learning journeys.
• By combining Jenzabar’s award-winning solutions with Spark451’s strategic marketing services, the Strategic Enrollment and Student Retention Suites enable institutions to take a multipronged approach to getting and keeping more students on their physical and digital campuses.
• The Strategic Enrollment and Student Retention Suites are designed to help colleges and universities respond to the impending enrollment cliff by helping them find, attract, enroll, and retain more right-fit learners.
• As a part of the Strategic Enrollment Suite, institutions can utilize Spark451’s strategic marketing services to identify potential students and drive engagement through target marketing campaigns.

• MONTREAL, Nov. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Alithya Group inc. (TSX: ALYA) (NASDAQ: ALYA) ("Alithya") is pleased to announce its participation in the 2022 American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers (AACRAO) Strategic Enrollment Management (SEM) Conference in Toronto, Ontario, on November 13-16, 2022.
• The conference helps attendees from the office of the registrar, academic advisors, enrollment managers, admissions, financial aid, student services and more gain knowledge to improve student success through creative recruitment and retention strategies.
• Quote by Damien Dumas, Alithya's Higher Education Practice Lead:
  "Helping Higher Education institutions deliver a positive student experience is our number one priority.
• We've partnered with Frequency Foundry to change the traditional mindset towards CRM and elevate it to an Institutional Student Data Platform."