2024-2025 SEM Program: Supporting the Student Journey

Overview

If your college is looking for ways to strengthen its strategic enrollment management efforts, this program is for you! With the new Vision 2030, recent legislative changes, Guided Pathways, equity planning, and the Student Centered Funding Formula, our approach to serving students throughout the student journey continues to evolve, presenting both challenges and exciting opportunities! The 2024-25 SEM Program seeks to build a structured community of practice where these challenges and opportunities are both examined and addressed. 

SEM Program participants will have the opportunity to:

  • Apply a holistic approach to SEM that focuses on the student journey with an emphasis on retention and completion.
  • Examine data to inform your SEM strategies.
  • Engage with other colleges on promising practices.
  • Develop and implement a SEM initiative at your college.
  • Work with a designated team of coaches who will support and provide guidance throughout the SEM program.
  • Access a wide-range of resources through the CCCCO’s Vision Resource Center.

Expected Engagement

This unique opportunity provides colleges with one year of continual engagement and support as they develop and implement a SEM project of their choice. The 2024-25 cohort will include 15 college teams of 10 people composed of cross-disciplinary groups of faculty, support staff, and administrators. 

College teams are expected to participate in the following five activities:

  1. In-person SEM Academy,  June 14-15, 2024 in Costa Mesa
  2. In-person Midpoint Convening, January 15-16, 2025 in San Jose
  3. In-person Final Convening, May 16, 2025 in San Francisco
  4. Scheduled monthly phone calls with the college team and SEM coaches
  5. Face-to-face campus visits with the college team and SEM coaches, once in the fall and once in the spring

Application to Participate

The window to submit your application to participate is February 13 - March 4, 2024. 

All colleges are eligible to participate even if your college has engaged in the SEM Program in a previous year!

If you would like to participate in the 2024-25 SEM Program: Supporting the Student Journey, you will need to identify a cross-functional team composed of representatives from multiple constituent groups on campus, i.e., instructional and non-instructional faculty, support services staff, and administrators. You will then submit the online application linked below and provide details on the SEM project your college wishes to focus on for the year, as well as the composition of your college SEM project team.

Applications will be reviewed by the SEM leadership team.  Colleges will be pre-selected according to relevance, focus, scope, and feasibility of the project; benefits to students; and the composition of their college’s SEM project team. Once pre-selected, the college team will meet with members from the SEM leadership team in March 2024 to discuss their proposed project, including the expected outcomes, conditions for developing and implementing the project, and support for it by the college leadership.
Once accepted into the SEM Program, colleges will spend time at the SEM Academy from June 14-15, 2024, with a designated team of SEM coaches and work to clarify their project goals, key activities, and a detailed implementation plan for the year.

Steps for Submitting an Application to Participate

  1. Preview the SEM Application Worksheet and review sample SEM topics and projects before submitting your application: 
  2. Register and attend the SEM Application webinar on February 13, 2024 
  3. Attend an application office hour session if you have additional questions. Email Michelle White (mwhite@rpgroup.org) for more information regarding office hour dates and times.
  4. Submit your application between February 13 - March 4, 2024

SEM Resources

SEM Resources can be found in the CoP Strategic Enrollment Management section of the Vision Resource Center. (To access the Vision Resource Center, a login is required and can be easily set up for all community college faculty, staff, and administrators) 

If you have any questions about the SEM Program, please contact Michelle White (mwhite@rpgroup.org) or Michelle Barton (mbarton@rpgroup.org).