Canada Presentations

Western sought to build an innovative digital admissions service with the primary aim of facilitating how we, as a community, could efficiently receive applications from prospective graduate students. In April 2011, Western began the active engagement of the community in order to determine how an admissions process could best meet our administrative needs and the interests of our applicants. After a two and a half year process of consultation and development, our new admissions system was released on October 7, 2013.
This session will review the Graduate Admissions project from initial consultation to release to process improvements, and lessons learned. It will review how Western leveraged the delivered AAWS framework and where customizations were required. It will present how Western currently manages applications from guest user registration up to application submission.

Details concerning the assessment of applications will be covered in the “Using WorkCenters to Manage Graduate Applications” session.