ISPD is your Catholic School Enrollment Solution for maintaining and/or increasing the quantity, quality, or diversity of your elementary or secondary Catholic school enrollment.  Leading our team is John Cooper who has worked as an enrollment management specialist with over 200 Catholic schools.  Our new enrollment division offers you exciting and proven practical processes on how to bring more students into your Catholic school. Through both workshops and on-site consulting with individual schools and dioceses, ISPD emphasizes a variety of important focus areas – all intended to bring about immediate results. 

ISPD Catholic School Enrollment Solutions

You have a need for a vibrant and healthy enrollment at your Catholic School. ISPD offers enrollment solutions that work.  Let us show you how to succeed and grow!

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Enrollment Workshops

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Results Report as of October 2008

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“Enrollment Talk”, ISPD’s monthly online newsletter

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Contact an Enrollment Specialist

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These areas are:

 

Enrollment Assessment & Present Situation Analysis with Strategies for Moving Forward

  • One or two day site visit that reviews every aspect of a school’s enrollment program from your enrollment plan and operation to your engagement with students until they graduate.  From the site visit, you receive a detailed report identifying next steps. 

Enrollment Market Study

  • Two-month engagement where your school’s internal and external markets are identified, surveyed, and analyzed to determine strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. 

Engaging & Training Staff, Faculty, & Volunteers for a Relational Enrollment Program

  • One or two day training that focuses on engaging and training staff, faculty, and volunteers in the following relational initiatives…
  • How to create a great experience during Open Houses & campus visits
  • Writing testimonials and text for direct marketing promotional materials
  • How to tele-counsel prospective students and parents
  • How to create web based communication with prospective students and parents using staff, faculty, & volunteers 

Internet Strategies for Recruitment

  • Re-design web site navigation for all audiences, particularly your prospective students/families
  • Create web pages for prospective students/families
  • Re-write web copy for prospective students/families and enhance interactivity of web site
  • Design and implement targeted email campaigns 

Direct Marketing Strategies & Techniques

  • Plan a direct mail campaign including the identification of target markets
  • Assist you in purchasing good address lists that reach your targeted market
  • Help you design, write, and edit content for campaign 

Turning Inquiries/Prospects into Enrolled Students

  • Design, write, and edit 9 follow-up contacts for every inquiry, 6 contacts for every applicant, and 5 contacts for every accepted and/or enrolled student
  • Work with you to launch a follow-up system in either your existing database or in ACT Business Solutions Software 

Creating Quality Promotional Materials

  • Work with your graphic designer to design, re-design, write, and/or edit all promotional materials for prospective student audience 

Retention:  From Student to Alum

  • Identify issues involving student retention and establish retention benchmarks.  Create an action plan for increasing retention 

 

 

Complete Enrollment Plans Are Available

Designed to Address Both Short & Long Term Goals

 

6 Month Engagement
  • Enrollment Assessment & Present Situation Analysis with Strategies for Moving Forward
  • Engaging & Training Staff, Faculty, & Volunteers in a Relational Enrollment Program
  • Internet Strategies for Recruitment
  • Direct Marketing Strategies & Techniques
  • Turning Inquiries/Prospects into Enrolled Students
  • Creating Quality Promotional Materials 
10 Month Engagement

All of the above plus…

  • Enrollment Market Study
  • Retention:  From Student to Alum

 

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