7:30am - 9:00am   Registration & Coffee

9:00am - 9:15am   Welcome

9:15am - 10:00am   Decoding Deliver
Speakers:  
Gina Kane, Director of Marketing, Hobart and William Smith Colleges
Craig Meyers, Associate Director of Communications, Hobart and William Smith College

Hobart and William Smith Colleges director of Marketing, Gina Kane, and Associate Director of Admissions Communications, Craig Meyers, will showcase how to harness the power of Deliver to create hyper-personalized messaging for prospective students. This interactive presentation will cover the use of liquid markup, snippets, conditional logic, basic HTML editing, and reporting. They will share what they learned this enrollment cycle from experimenting with several variables and how they plan to use Slate's reporting features to improve their strategy for recruiting the classes of 2025.

10:15am - 11:00am   Inbox and Processing Efficiencies
Speakers: 
Will Cummins, Associate Dean of Admission, Amherst College
Kenzie Bruso, Assistant Director of Admission and Financial Aid Information Systems, Amherst College 

This session will explain why our office chose to implement Inbox and the efficiencies we have gained through implementation.  We will also discuss how the use of Inbox has helped us identify additional areas in which we could streamline processing and the tools we used (e.g. forms, liquid mark-up, snippets, portals) to create further efficiencies.

11:00am - 11:15am   Morning Break

11:15am - 12:00pm   The Power of Portals: Maximizing the Slate Reader
Speaker:  Aaron Watts, Admissions Counselor, Tufts University 

This presentation will cover the process of implementing a dashboard reader portal. This is a case study that will examine motivations for moving to a portal dashboard, the planning process, portal development and construction, and common implementation hurdles. The audience will gain an understanding of the increased flexibility and power of a portal dashboard over a PDF dashboard in the application review process. This presentation will empower other institutions to incorporate this new tool into their processes to make them more sustainable and to better utilize their data.

12:00pm - 1:00pm   Lunch

1:00pm - 2:00pm    Getting the Most from Slate in Two Examples: Front Rush/Slate Integration and Streamlining Transfer Credit Evaluations
Speaker:  Mark Phalen, Director of Admissions Information Systems, St. Lawrence University

We will present two real-world examples of how we have utilized the features in Slate to enhance our inner office efficiencies and communications with our applicants.

First Topic: Front Rush/Slate Integration – We will be exploring the standard setup, decision data flow, and a new way to receive transcript review requests in Slate.

Second Topic: We will outline how we collaborate with our Registrar’s Office to process transfer credit evaluations within a Slate workflow. In addition, we will discuss how we automatically present this information to the student.

2:15pm - 3:00pm   Leveraging Slate Beyond Admissions
Speakers:  
Carrie Kell, Associate Director for Strategic Enrollment Initiatives, Rhode Island School of Design 
Jessica Meers, Lead Application Specialist, Rhode Island School of Design  

Finding a system that can meet the needs across an institution can be challenging and sharing such a system can be even more complicated. This session will review how Rhode Island School of Design leverages Slate beyond admissions with a single instance. When other systems were not up to par, departments such as Continuing Education and Global Studies have been able to use Slate for their non-degree programs and individualized needs. 

3:00pm   End