Delivered at the 2018 Strategic Enrolment Marketing & Management Forum in Toronto, Ontario on November 21st, 2018.
Session description:
Student Journey Mapping has been a topic of discussion and the focus of many multi-year projects across higher education over the last few years. How far have we come? How has our sector, as a whole, accepted this process and where have we implemented it?
In an effort to advance the collective knowledge of Post-Secondary Education in the area of student-centric decision making, JP Rains will cover a variety of ways in which his colleagues have leveraged student journey mapping and share what type of results they have found. Sharing successes and failures, both his own and from others, he will aim to give an assessment of how Student Journey Mapping has influenced our space. This process has been used in a variety of ways; from building new websites, to social media strategy, and to redefining a student admissions experience
Each of these ways advances the positive influence we can have on those who matter most – our students. Having personally interviewed half a dozen veterans of Student Journey Mapping (and having delivered the “how to Journey Map” presentation last year at SEMM 2017), his aim is to deliver key takeaways for conference attendees. His hope is to deliver this talk and move the needle on student-centric decision making, arming our attendees to better understand their students, and almost more importantly, help their executives better understand their core audience.