Share · Collaborate · Learn
Communities of Practice serve a primary role of collaboration with THE Consortium and help drive innovation and strategy among member institutions. Through regular cooperation and communication, THE Consortium’s Communities of Practice enable educational, operational, and fiscal advantages made possible through wide-spread collaboration. Additionally, this approach enables higher education professionals to develop and share expertise to foster an environment of knowledge-sharing and problem-solving.
Current Communities of Practice
Career Services
This CoP is made up of Career Services professionals, employee-partners, and local chambers of commerce.
Meets Bi-Monthly
Resources
Education
Meets Monthly
FAFSA and Financial Aid
The FAFSA and Financial Aid Committee of Professionals (CoP) brings financial aid professionals, advisors, secondary school staff, and representatives from public service organizations. Our aim is to facilitate discussions on updates in Federal, State, and Local financial aid policies and practices while strategizing on effective ways to promote and support student financial aid applications.
Meets Fall 2024
Institutional Research
The Institutional Research community of practice is collaborating with Asemio to develop data sharing policies and protocols. These policies and protocols focus on student outcomes in specific areas, including enrollment, transfer, persistence, and degree completion. Currently, the group is preparing for their second data pull. This data pull will eventually lead to the creation of a publicly accessible data dashboard. This dashboard will highlight student trends in northeast Oklahoma.
Meets Monthly
2SLGBTQ+ Support and Services
Meets Monthly
Resources
Marketing and Communications
Top marketing and communications professionals and THE Consortium’s nine member institutions attend this community of practice. This group meets to touch base on higher education happenings across the Tulsa-area and to collectively communication the Tulsa higher education landscape.
Meets Quarterly
Resources
Student Transfer
The Transfer Community of Practice focuses on cross-institutional transfer initiatives as well as transfer student supports. The group includes transfer professionals across THE Consortium’s nine institutions sharing ideas, best practices, and research about transfer. The group also informs our Transfer Touchpoints program, a mentorship program for transfer students.
Meets Quarterly
Student Wellbeing and Accessibility Services
The Student Wellbeing & Accessibility Services CoP serves as a networking platform for Tulsa higher education professionals involved in student health services, mental health counseling, disability services/accommodations, health promotion, public health and safety, etc. The goal of the Student Wellbeing & Accessibility Services CoP is to share practical knowledge and best practices that foster student wellbeing, retention, and success.
Meets Monthly
International Student Services
The International Student Services Community of Practice brings together higher education professionals who support international students across Tulsa-area institutions. This group focuses on sharing best practices in student engagement, immigration and visa support, cross-cultural adjustment, and campus programming that fosters inclusion and belonging. Members collaborate to strengthen institutional capacity for internationalization and to ensure international students thrive academically, socially, and professionally.
Meets Monthly