ARUCC Canadian SEM Summit
ARUCC Canadian SEM Summit
ARUCC Canadian SEM Summit
Focused dialogue. Collective experience. Shared solutions.
In alternating years of the ARUCC-PCCAT conference, ARUCC hosts the ARUCC Canadian Strategic Enrolment Management (SEM) Summit, an intensive gathering designed to support and advance the SEM profession in Canada.
Unlike a traditional conference with multiple concurrent sessions, the Summit brings approximately 100 participants together in the same space for a day and a half of concentrated discussion and facilitated dialogue.
Under an overarching theme, facilitators introduce topics and frameworks to guide conversation. Participants then draw on their collective experience to explore challenges, exchange perspectives and seek solutions relevant to the Canadian post-secondary environment.
Everyone participates. Everyone contributes.
The result is a highly collaborative experience designed for meaningful dialogue among professionals working with strategic enrolment management across Canada.
A Canadian SEM Tradition
The Canadian SEM Summit began in 2008, when founders and co-conveners Susan Gottheil and Clayton Smith brought together enrolment managers and thought leaders from across Canada for concentrated dialogue on contemporary post-secondary enrolment challenges.
The Summit met annually until 2019. Following a disruption during the COVID-19 pandemic, it returned in 2022 in conjunction with the AACRAO SEM Conference in Toronto.
In 2025, the Canadian SEM Summit entered its next chapter under ARUCC and is now offered biennially, alternating with the ARUCC PCCAT Conference.
The ARUCC Canadian SEM Summit is planned and organized by a volunteer group of senior leaders representing Canadian public post-secondary institutions, with representation and support from the ARUCC Board of Directors and ARUCC’s partner organization, AACRAO.
