Enrollment Planning Network
The Enrollment Planning Network (EPN) began in 2006 with a small group of private research universities exchanging best practices in university administration. Enrollment managers, admissions directors, and financial aid officers gathered again at the 2009 College Board Forum to create a governance structure, articulate organizational objectives, and recruit member universities.
The central activity of the Enrollment Planning Network is the Annual Meeting where participating schools exchange ideas and arrange panel discussions. A typical meeting includes speakers and roundtable panels with leaders in higher education from the One DuPont Circle offices, Capitol Hill, and the education press. Previous discussion topics have included College Fair recruitment, standardized testing, and the impact of intercollegiate athletics on admissions. Representatives from attending schools raise questions relevant to their own institution and hear colleagues from peer institutions offer thoughts and suggestions in an open forum discussion. Annual Meeting sessions are lively, direct, and relevant to the common problems facing enrollment-driven, private research universities and include a popular "round robin" event where each school updates colleagues about the most pressing problems on its campus from the previous year.
Sharing the information systematically according to common problems is highly valuable to those with responsibility for enrollment management. EPN helps analyze publicly available historical data from the Common Data Set, College Board profiles, and the national media with the calculation of benchmarks and strategic indices focused on enrollment management.
Small College Consortium
The Small College Consortium (SCC) began in 2015 with a small group of private small colleges exploring an exchange of historical data and best practices in enrollment management. The group first met during the 2015 College Board Forum in Washington, DC, and began completing surveys about benchmark statistics shortly after the conference. It is still recruiting members and beginning to establish an infrastructure to facilitate data exchanges, information sharing, conducting an annual meeting, and other collective activities.
The central activity of the Small College Consortium is an Annual Meeting where participating schools arrange panel discussion, speakers, presentations, and an exchange of best practices. SCC also conducts “Quick Surveys” about applications, deposits, admission rates, and yields. Sharing information systematically according to common definitions is highly valuable to those with responsibility for enrollment management.
The member schools in the Small College Consortium include Bennington, Centre College, Claremont McKenna, Colorado College, Denison, Franklin & Marshall, Gettysburg, Grinnell, Holy Cross, Kenyon, Lafayette, Lewis & Clark, Macalester, Muhlenberg, Occidental, Pitzer, Reed, Rhodes, Richmond, Rollins, Sarah Lawrence College, Sewanee, Skidmore, St. John's, St. Olaf, Trinity University, Union, Wofford, and W&L.