Laura Podeschi, Author at R&Y Network

Accept/Decline

What Is the Accept/Decline Survey? Each year, we survey all students admitted to the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, including both first-year and transfer students who have accepted or declined their offer of admission. The survey gathers insights on how students discovered the university, their reasons for choosing or not choosing Illinois, and other factors that influenced their decision. How Can My Unit Use the Data Collected? This is our most comprehensive survey, and the data we collect provides valuable insights into a wide range of questions from admitted students. You can filter the data by academic and demographic subgroups [...]

Laura Podeschi2025-01-15T10:29:47-06:00Analysis|

Unit Presentations

Learn more about the organizational structures, biggest challenges, most successful outcomes, and more of each of our undergraduate academic communities through these presentations, given in summer 2023. College of Agricultural, Consumer, & Environmental Sciences View ACES presentation slides (pptx) College of Applied Health Sciences View AHS presentation slides (pptx) College of Education View EDU presentation slides (pptx) College of Fine & Applied Arts View FAA presentation slides (pptx coming soon) College of Liberal Arts & Sciences View LAS presentation slides (pdf) College of Media Division of General Studies [...]

Laura Podeschi2023-08-07T09:48:02-05:00Analysis|

Email Policy

All emails to OUA audiences are created in Litmus and sent via Slate in coordination with Enrollment Management. This ensures that emails are templated and accessible, student statuses are accurate, and more. Audience Before creating an email, please review our audience policy to ensure you can communicate with your intended audience. Content As you're creating an email, make sure you adhere to the following standards: 1. Stay relevant to your unit. Emails from an academic unit must be about that unit, its subject area, relevant interests, or majors. Broad campus topics such as application dates and deadlines, visiting (in general), living [...]

Laura Podeschi2025-01-15T13:22:19-06:00Policies, Training|

Audience Policy

Academic units can communicate with students at the inquiry, admitted, and accepted stages: Inquiries - Students who have expressed an interest in Illinois and your college's interest area Admits - Students who have been admitted into your college/major at Illinois but haven't yet accepted their offer to attend Accepts - Students within your college/major who have accepted their offer to attend Illinois Prospects We cannot process any college emails to prospects (students who haven't expressed an interest in Illinois). The Office of Undergraduate Admissions does manage a communications plan to encourage prospects to add us to their college list and provide [...]

Laura Podeschi2023-05-22T16:43:06-05:00Policies|

Forms Policy

In many cases, forms need to be created in Slate. Below are our general policies as to when and why Slate forms are required. To learn how to create a form in Slate, check out our Slate form training. To view this training, you must log into Google through your illinois.edu email address. Prospective Student Forms If your form is for prospective students, it needs to be in Slate. This ensures that we are able to collect and store student information in one place. Admitted Student Forms If your form is for admitted students, it only needs to be in Slate [...]

Laura Podeschi2023-05-24T14:48:05-05:00Policies|

New to R&Y?

Welcome to the R&Y Network! This page is your starting point to learn more and explore training opportunities. Access Join the R&Y Network The R&Y Network is a collaborative community of University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign faculty and staff dedicated to supporting undergraduate recruitment and yield efforts. Through shared resources, training opportunities, and open communication, the network fosters transparency, inclusivity, and teamwork to enhance the university’s enrollment strategies and ensure student success. Request to join the network. Slate Slate is the Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system used for undergraduate recruitment and enrollment at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. It manages all communications [...]

Laura Podeschi2025-01-15T10:16:53-06:00About R&Y, Training|

How to Submit a Request

Requests must be submitted by a communications, marketing, or admissions representative within your college. Generally, we do not process requests from individual departments; instead, those should be routed through the college staff members authorized to submit requests. Email Send Requests Before submitting your email send request, review our email policy, audience policy, and blackout dates to ensure we can accommodate your request. Once your email is created and in Slate, submit a request to notify the Enrollment Management team that it is ready to be sent. Please note that any email whose audience is a specific list of students must include [...]

Laura Podeschi2025-01-15T10:42:59-06:00How-tos, Training|

Training Overview

Trainings by Tool Below are the key tools we use to support colleges and units in their recruitment and yield efforts, along with training resources for each. Learn how to request access to these tools and keep in mind that access privileges may vary. Slate Slate is a Customer Relationship Management (CRM) tool used across the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign campus. It centralizes student records and allows us to manage event registrations, email communications, track interactions, store important student data, and more. Slate is essential for collecting and managing prospective student data, including contact information. If your role involves communicating with [...]

Laura Podeschi2025-01-15T10:54:12-06:00How-tos, Policies, Training|

Blackout Dates Policy

During certain key periods of the admissions calendar (particularly when data is changing rapidly), the Office of Enrollment Management are unable to fulfill email, text, or data requests. These dates are as follows: Two days before, on, and three days after early action decision release Two days before, on, and three days after regular action decision release One day before, on, and one day after application open One day before, on, and one day after application deadlines One day before, on, and one day after accept deadline These blackout dates are limited and exist to make sure students receive the correct [...]

Laura Podeschi2024-05-14T11:54:55-05:00Policies|

Post-May 1 Communication Policy

Overview May 1 is the national accept deadline. All admitted students must accept their offer of admission by this date, at which point they can claim their NetId and have their illinois.edu email address. May 1 will therefore serve as a transition date for units to start communicating with incoming students using their illinois.edu email address. At this point in the cycle, units will create and send emails to incoming students through Webtools, or any other way that you use to communicate with current students. If you wish to communicate with prospective students, units should continue to send those via Slate [...]

Laura Podeschi2025-05-02T07:15:32-05:00Policies|

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