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Accreditation

Accreditation is very important in order to gain employment after completing a program.

Promotional material

How much should be given out?

Facebook

Is a facebook page a risk for an admissions rep?

Catalogs

How important is it to cover every detail in catalog?

Rep behavior

Should we intervene when we see another rep acting inappropriately with a student?

Compliance And Your Institution

What can you do when even though you're trying to do the right thing, and stick with compliance, others at your place of employment do not, and you're left feeling alone and like the "bad guy" with students?

Follow the regulations as outlined

By following exactly what you are required and supposed to do prior to enrolling a student, you do not have to worry whether or not you are misleading a prospective student.

New to the Industry

I am very new to this industry! what is the most challanging part?

Departmenatal Finance Training

What training or practices has your educational institutional implemented to ensure Admissions Personnel have an understanding of Federal Financial Aid programs, and how does the institution facilitate interdepartmental connectivity between the Financial Aid and Admissions departments?

Earning Credits vs. Transferring Credits

The school that I work for is a work-from-home art program in which the students can earn college credits. The problem that we run into is that parents want to know how many credits will they earn for completing our program. We tell them that it is recommended for "up to 24". Since it is up to the college or university that they will later be attending, we can't answer know for sure. Also, if they go and ask that college or university, well, what do you expect them to say? "Sure, go ahead and take that course instead of ours and when you're finished, we would love to give away our credits instead of you earning them here." Not likely. I understand that we are a different program than most, so this is a unique situation. However, we can't really "encourage" them to go around and ask colleges and universities about credits because no one in their right mind would tell them to take our course first.

Staying up to date.

Like I stated before we use the intranet to keep up to date on our school as well as accreditation. Company wide emails are also sent of anything that cause company changes.

Knowing your school

We use an intranet to help keep us up to date on what is happening with our school as well as sister schools.

enrollment agreement

It is always important to review the enrollment agreement with students.

I understand how I need to do my job

I understand how I need to do my job now and how to do it correctly.

Understanding

I feel I have a better understanding of the way Miami-Jacobs works.

Admission Process PaperWork

Hello, I enjoyed going over the admission process. Thank you for all the information.

Compliance

Compliance is an important topic because it can effect the school's accreditation and create problems down the line.

Compliance

Being compliant is very neccessary. You need to disclose all the information to all the parties available.

Communication is Key to a well functioning school

It is important to keep in direct contact with all departments from admissions, financial aid, career services and educators as well. By keeping lines of communication clear through all departments, each department is easily able to go to another department for assistance. By doing this, the school offers the best opportunities for it's students by having everyone within the school on the same page.

It os vital for the schools to keep the agents update

In an continuing effort to provide our students with the utmost customer service there has to be current and consistant disimulation of correct information.