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Marketing Strategies

Have you taken the opportunity to learn and review the various marketing strategies of your institution?

Career Placement

Are you allowed to share information with students concerning job opening information that you have that may not be listed or available at the Career Placement Department? Would this be in compliance with Fair Consumer Practices?

Paper vs Digital

I know it is very important to keep a physical student file for each student but is there any software that anyone can recommend for keeping the student's information easily accessible by many employees without having to fight over the student file? My school is fairly new so we have not yet purchased any software and wanted to know which could be good for a small school starting out that is not extremely pricey?

Agent

I was not aware how influential the agent was during the admissions process. I found the information very interesting.

Definition terms: Application Process

In our institution we refer to the application process as not just the legal act of entering into a contract with the school. This action includes the fulfillment of other required legal documents such as Proof of High School, personal ID or drivers license and the payment of the registration/application fee. At this time other forms are filled that protect both the student and the institution as well.

Rules and Regs

What advice would you give on keeping up with the Florida Statutes and Rules and Regs for the whole state? It's so much information and I have no clue how to keep up with it if they update it :/

Transfer of Credits

I find this section very helpful. Especially when dealling with transfer of credits. It does help to see that each school is responsible for what credits are transferable or not. It is a great idea to have a section in the cataloge that highlights what each course it worth but ultimately it us up to each insitution to decide what can and cannot be accepted.

Getting to know your institution

Our staff makes it part of our training and a routine to visit with all the directors and instructors to get to know each others jobs and to know how the company funtions. This allows for greater communication and understanding in the company. It also allows us to relay accurate inforation to our prospective students.

Admissions Process/Manual

I have found it very helpful to put together an admissions manual with the course catalog, enrollment agreements, DOE rules all together in a binder for future reference. This helps me refer to it when any questions are asked by potential students.

Terms and Definitions

This is a great idea to have a list of terms and definitions as well as a resource book. It is great to review from time to time. This will help to stay up to date on the rules and regulations.

Rules and Regulations

These are definitely the most important topics of my reading and I will ensure that my coworkers are as well versed in this are as possible.

Definition

Definitions are of the utmost importance when working with Florida Statutes, Administrative code, Commission Rules and the Commission for Independent Education. Definitions of many words and Terms were clearly defined for me and will be very helpful in the future. Why are definitions so important when working with Florida Statues?

Resouce Notebook

One of our most difficult tasks is to maintain our course catalog since we teach in three different countries. We are currently attempting to maintain a faculty and staff version, updated quarterly, on a cloud. Has anyone else had experience with this way to maintain institution documents?

fees

all fees must be paid before start date.

diploma

can they start if they r working on getting ged.

Workforce information for the prospect student

It is extremely important to have current information regarding the employment possibilities a student has after graduation if they enroll in a given program. Our institution has a document that gathers retention and placement, among information for every program to inform students, prospects and the general public, so I think we are on the right track. In the admissions office we need to be aware that we need to give this information to the prospective student every time to help them make an informed decision.

Understanding your Institution

Understanding your institution is going to help you in many ways. it will help you to understand your position as well as others and help your admissions process will be delievered more effeciently.

The Admissions Process.

This process is very vital and can make or break the overall presentation as well as structure of the school.

The Resource Notebook

I think this is a really great and effective way to keep all resources on hand and together. I t is also a great refresher. I have printed all resourceful documents for my Resource Notebook.

Staying up to date!

I think staying up to date is important. Our corporat office created an intranet so that we can stay up to date on all current and ne information.