Continuous improvement and data-informed refinement of your academic operations are more critical than ever before. We understand how imperative it is to remain financially sustainable while advancing student success. To help, we’ve created the framework below to help you better manage your academic enterprise for completions, implement student success interventions, and measure progress.
Learn more about managing the academic enterprise from our founder and CEO, Tom Shaver, and Sarah Collins, Chief Strategy Officer. Then, discover actions you can implement today.
"We’ve been very focused for 25 years now on helping Chief Academic Officers and academic departments manage all the complexities of rolling out a schedule. What we’ve learned over the years is that it’s such a challenging problem that we needed to bring all the pieces together in an integrated, synergistic framework to help them with that problem."
-Tom Shaver, Founder and CEO at Ad Astra
Looking for solutions to help you achieve the pillars within the Managing the Academic Enterprise framework? We've got you covered. Learn more about each Ad Astra solution below, and understand which pillars they support by referring to the colored dots.
By analyzing leading indicators of graduation rates like pathway, program, department, and college data, institutions can uncover patterns of completion at current velocity while also discovering what changes can be implemented to increase student success.
Solutions to help you: Velocity, Impact, Momentum Year
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Ensure you remove the barriers to student progress by digitizing and assess your pathway structure. By leveraging data to understand your pathway courses' enrollment health, you’ll be able to model the impact of course sharing and course choice.
Solutions to help you: Cohort Enrollment Health and Pathways Design
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Are you rolling over your schedule term after term? There’s a better way. Collaborate with stakeholders and leverage course demand analytics to create student-aligned schedules.
Solutions that support schedule refinement: Astra Schedule, Monitor, Align, Predict, Structured Scheduling
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When institutions can holistically understand their instructional capacity, they’re better equipped to effectively allocate instructional resources to meet demand.
Solutions that support instructional capacity: Capacity Analysis, Strategic Scheduling Evaluation
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Managing the health of enrollment in the academic programs you offer will help you pinpoint how programs are fragmented and uncover opportunities to manage the tradeoff between variety and sustainability.
Solutions to help you: Cohort Enrollment Health
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Allocate revenue and expenses to courses based on students’ academic history and use insights to model ways to manage your gross contribution margin.
Solutions that support financial health: Academic Program Cost Analysis
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Reinforce best practices at your institution that support continuous improvement through integrated scheduling and calendaring solutions. These solutions will help you further define institutional policies and structural building blocks that support efficient and student-aligned resource allocation.
Solutions to help you: Astra Schedule, Strategic Scheduling Evaluation
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Ad Astra is higher education’s solution partner in managing the academic enterprise. Partnering with more than 500 colleges, universities, and systems nationwide, Ad Astra helps improve stewardship of instructional resources, streamline student access to courses, and accelerate student completions.