Assessments and Evaluations

Assessments and Evaluations of Higher Education Operations

An in-depth and professional assessment provides a benchmark as a starting point for further action.

An in-depth and professional assessments and evaluations of enrollment management, admissions, financial aid, registrar and student financial services operations provides a benchmark as a starting point for further action.  Associated findings and recommendation reports will offer a roadmap to successful and optimized processes in enrollment management, admissions, financial aid, registrar and student financial services.  It should be an institutional priority to conduct a professional assessment and evaluation of these core functions assessed by external consulting experts.  These are mission-critical functions of all higher education institutions.  An assessment by the trained and acclaimed leaders of focusEDU can provide the baseline standard for positive and productive change.

Consulting for Assessments and Evaluations

focusEDU has assisted many higher education institutions with productive and insightful assessments and evaluations of all aspects and elements needed to provide detailed reporting of findings. Associated prioritized recommendations from nationally acclaimed focusEDU consultants will provide the leadership of higher education with a mapped strategic plan for consideration of actions needed to improve:

• Organization reporting structure
• Communication with all constituents, including staff
• Improvement in leadership initiatives
• Assessment of the software environment and the software programs used to process work of the operation
• Relationships with students
• Student success programs and strategies
• Student program completion strategies
• Planning for financial obligations and managing payment obligations to the institution and lenders

focusEDU has the experience and expertise to conduct professional assessments and expertise of your enrollment management, admissions, registrar, financial aid, and student financial services areas. We want to discuss our commitment to assisting you with assessments and evaluations of core operation areas.

Positive Results to Help You Attain Your Goals

Our Consulting Directors are recognized leaders and will work with you to ensure enrollment management consulting and national searches success:

• Your admission outreach initiatives generate an enrolled entering class with the qualities, quantities and demographics you seek.
• That financial aid and scholarship packaging plays a positive role in student retention and does not become a factor in student attrition.
• The coordination with academic leadership so course availability for students establishes satisfactory progress toward students degree and program objectives.
• That enrollment management is strategically optimized for success.
• Advisement, counseling and needed support services will retain the students you recruited.
• Students will complete their degree/programs requirements in a timeframe that is acceptable to your students and the institution.
• Structures and programs for payments of tuition and fees that will meet an institution's revenue objectives without placing students and families into financial hardship.
• The outcomes and deliverables of our assessments and evaluations will strategically assist your institution for enrollment management success.