CASE STUDY
APPROACH
As students enter NWTC college for the first time, it’s critical that they have a smooth and informational onboarding experience. Swim immediately started by getting a firm understanding of NWTC, their data, and their students. This was done through comprehensive deep dive sessions and internal research. Early on, Swim realized that NWTC required a strong Customer Relationship Management system (CRM) to support current student communications. Students were either receiving little to no communication or an abundance of communications from multiple departments, causing students to ignore outreach efforts.
CHALLENGE
Northeast Wisconsin Technical College (NWTC) has long been acknowledged as one of the leading technical institutions in the Midwest due to their strong brand and community reputation. NWTC needed to ensure they remained on the forefront of service delivery across their main and satellite campuses.
NWTC engaged Swim Digital Group (Swim) to assist with communicating to prospective students from the inquiry to enrollment phase and existing students for re-enrollment retention efforts. NWTC had already purchased a CRM, but wanted to ensure that the processes and communications that they used during the implementation ensured that their students received the most effective and streamlined communications in the most timely, relevant, and personalized manner.
SOLUTION
After conducting a thorough analysis on their student life cycle, Swim proposed opportunities for improvement within the institution. Swim proposed and implemented an all-inclusive onboarding strategy with both time and trigger-based flows of communication that occur once a student has enrolled. The services Swim provided are outlined as followed:
RESULTS
NWTC trusted Swim to conduct intensive deep dives and processing mapping strategies in support of their student onboarding and retention initiatives. Since our partnership, NWTC has celebrated enrollment growth, healthy retention growth, and a very clear ability to identify challenges in enrollment gaps to solve them immediately.