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Ad Astra Consulting

 

Ad Astra Consulting 

Enhance Student Success
and Financial Sustainability

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Ad Astra consultants are on a mission to help colleges and universities better manage the academic enterprise. We're ready to help you build action strategies to improve Degree Velocity™ while maximizing instructional resources. Keep reading to learn how we're providing top-notch data insights.

Data-Driven Consulting that Makes an Impact

institution iconBenchmarking Hundreds of Institutions
Discover how you measure up across key performance metrics for student success and financial sustainability against peer institutions nationwide. 

strategies iconEnable Best Practices and Strategies
Contextualize current performance by creating a story with your data. Build and implement change management based on prioritized efforts.

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Advance your goals after the project is complete by creating a plan during the engagement that will guide you and your team for the future.

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"Leveraging analytical tools has significantly improved how we plan and implement our semester schedules. It has reduced the number of students who finish registration without full schedules as well as reduced both section wait-lists and course cancellations. We have also been able to eliminate budget shortfalls in our adjunct budget."

Richard Sheldon
Associate Vice President for Academic Administration
at Marymount Manhattan College

Explore Our Consulting Services

We know that one solution doesn't fit every institution's need. That's why we've created a variety of consulting services to meet you where you're at. Discover our services below by clicking the plus icon.

Key service offerings include:

  • Analyze current scheduling policies, enrollment trends, and classroom inventory
  • Review strategies impacting space utilization like prime-time usage, off-grid scheduling, and low enrolled sections
  • Examine course enrollment versus classroom capacity for opportunity
  • Build an adoption plan that implements space utilization best practices

Key service offerings include:

  • A revenue and margin analysis for each academic program, derived by analyzing student academic history
  • Program, course, and section level breakdowns to aid in pinpointing efficiency opportunities and best practice
  • An implementation strategy for cost-management recommendations that align with institutional goals of student success and graduation
  • A compilation of instructional cost analyses, reports, and collateral to aid in implementation

Key service offerings include:

  • Benchmark student momentum metrics:
    • Core English
    • Core math
    • Nine credits in the student’s academic focus area
    • Thirty credits in their first year
  • Compare metrics across an institution, department, program, and pathway
  • Student-centric data on at-risk students to tailor communications
  • Intervention strategies that ensure students stay on track

Key service offerings include:

  • Facilitated focus groups and interviews with key stakeholders to understand strengths and opportunities around your course scheduling infrastructure. Including course scheduling process, policies, procedures, and more
  • Objective analysis of existing systems that influence the scheduling process
  • Recommendations to improve course scheduling infrastructure and practices
  • Create a change management framework for prioritizing strategies and implementation of next steps

Key service offerings include:

  • A comprehensive view of your academic programs and the ways in which students are taking courses to complete their pathway requirements
  • Analyze the impact of course and pathway scheduling options such as location, modality, and accelerated terms on enrollment health
  • Ensure alignment between your pathways, completion tracks, and the completion promises made to your students

Key service offerings include:

  • Analyze your scheduling patterns and quantify the potential impact
  • Benchmark your meeting pattern against peers
  • View patterns by room type
  • Analysis of weekly contact hours distributed by meeting type

Key service offerings include:

  • Use data to design and implement pathways for each degree program offered
  • Analyze pathway data to provide guidance on refinement and impact on degree velocity
  • Use data to align the course schedule to pathways
  • Create a plan that ensures continuous improvement on pathways

Key service offerings include: 

  • Peer benchmarking to understand how your institution stacks up across 17 course scheduling and space capacity variables
  • Recommendations highlighting course offering opportunities that better align to your students' needs and uncover space bottlenecks that are impacting instructional capacity
  • Create an action plan that aligns with institutional goals

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