College and university student unions all face similar challenges. Academica Group works with student councils and umbrella associations to conduct focused research, develop communication strategies and create cost-effective, dynamic e-communities.
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Student Unions
At Academica Group, our goal is to utilize our knowledge and expertise in the Higher Education market to help key stakeholders understand their clients. Student Unions are no exception.
Our interests and experience in this market focus on the most important and prevalent issues:
- Early Student Outreach
- National Partnership and Alliance Studies
- Student Engagement
- Student Union Web Communication Solutions
Student Union representatives very often only have a year to change their union for the better, which means they need results fast. Academica Group has developed a wide variety of solutions that quickly find out what students think and then organize these thoughts into a viable strategy.
See some of our package solutions below or contact our CEO, Rod Skinkle, to discuss custom solutions.
Basic Solutions
- Student Connection Solution
- Full circle communications audit
- Website audit
- Short online survey
- Report based on research findings
- Website Redesign/build
- Attractive
- Interactive
Advanced Solutions
- Student Communications Solution
- Extended communications audit
- Website audit
- Extended online survey
- Report and strategy based on survey findings
- Website Redesign/build
- Attractive
- E-community
- E-commerce and other service applications online
Cutting Edge Solutions
- Student Engagement & Communications Solution
- Extended communications audit
- Website audit
- Extended online survey
- Report based on survey findings
- Website Redesign/build
- Attractive
- E-community
- E-commerce and other service applications online
- Website promotion strategy starting with O-Week
- SU print and media advertisement strategy and design
- 3-phase research process starting with executive interviews with Student Union staff, student focus groups and an on-line student survey of all students
- Research report of survey findings including service recommendations
- Communication strategy based on results
- Ability to design a questionnaire, launch the survey the same day and within a week have the results fully analyzed and ready to report