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About Us

We're a full-service consulting group with a singular focus.

Helping you achieve success with change-effecting enrollment management and marketing—that's our center of attention.

Founded by Dr. Jim Black, SEM WORKS is grounded in a long history of serving higher education clients through consulting and professional development. Altogether, we've worked with more than 300 college and university clients from five countries. No matter what your institution's culture or enrollment challenges may be, we're confident we can help you break through. 

We give you experience.

The SEM WORKS team brings a strong foundation to the table. Our extensive background includes experience and partnerships with community colleges, four-year public and private institutions, graduate and professional schools, proprietary schools, nonprofit and for-profit organizations, in addition to college and university systems.

We give you our greatest strengths.

While our core business is consulting, we also provide a host of other valuable opportunities to reinvent your enrollment business.

• The best conferences and on-site training opportunities in the industry.
• Creative approaches that command attention and response.
• Turnkey solutions for essential recruitment tools like e-mail customization and portal content management.

All of SEM WORKS' recommendations are designed to improve enrollment outcomes without overtaxing institutional resources such as budgets, staffing and IT support. We'll show you how to best combine the latest technology with the fundamental tenets of higher education's best practices, and put them to work for you. 

We give you our word.

SEM WORKS is a true partner in your success. You can count on us to provide objective insight, the best customized training, and the tools you need. Our team has the knowledge and capability to execute a variety of meaningful consulting projects, including enrollment management audits, facilitation of enrollment management planning, communications audits, image studies, brand strategy development, financial aid & scholarship analysis, student services delivery and process reengineering.

Learn more from the institutions who've already experienced SUCCESS with SEM WORKS.

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