REPUBLIC COLLEGES OF GUINOBATAN, INC

School of Gradute Studies and Research

G. Alban Street, Guinobatan , Albay

CONCEPT PAPER IN STUDENT MANANGEMENT

A. Definition of Student Management

Student management is an arrangement relating to students activities, ranging from
their enrolment to their graduation. Student management is also regarded as the
recording of student activities ranging from the admissions process to students that
graduate from school due to graduation or other reasons.

School is providing the best possible service to students since the admissions process
until the student leaves the institution or school because it was graduated. Knezevich
(Depdiknas, 2007: 8) defines management learner or pupil personnel administration as
a service that focuses on regulation, supervision and services students in the classroom
and outside the classroom such as: recognition, registration, individuan services such
as the overall development of abilities, interests, needs until he is mature at school.

Student management aims to organize various activities of students in the areas of

student learning activities in schools in order to smooth, orderly and organized. Some
experts argue that the management goal is to create conditions for students' school
environment as well as for students to learn in an orderly manner so that teaching
objectives are achieved effectively and efficiently. There are three major tasks in the
field of management students to achieve the goal of admission, progress learning
activities and guidance and coaching discipline.

B. Enrolment Management
Strategic enrolment management is an established concept in education with a
respectable body of literature supporting it that involves marketing, recruitment, support,
retention, satisfaction and placement of students.

According to James S. Taylor, et al. (2008: 2) strategic enrolment management is

defined as “a comprehensive process designed to help an institution achieve and
maintain optimum recruitment, retention and graduation rates of students, where
‘optimum’ is defined within the academic context of the institution”.

If one simply looks at the myriad questions an institution might ask itself in order to
better understand the broad area of student success, it becomes clearer that the term
enrolment is probably insufficient. Examples are shown below:
1. Why do students come to us? Why do others choose not to?
2. What kinds of students are we interested in attracting? Is this what we get?
3. Where can we find these students? How many of them are there?
4. Are our preferred students applying? Are they enrolling?
5. What must we do to attract them? What are they seeking in an education?
6. Do we offer what they want? Do they know this? How are we telling them?
7. What percentage of our students complete their degrees? What percentage of our
competitors’ students complete their degrees?
8. How can we retain and graduate a higher percentage of our students?
9. How many more students do we have the resources to support?
10. What are the perceptions of current students about their experience here?
11. What is our image? Does it match our strengths and weaknesses?
12. How do our programmes align themselves with future market trends?
13. What recruitment strategies are effective with different student groups?
14. How do we compare with our competitors? What can we learn from them?

We consider these questions to prepare our school to attract the best student. Then, we
organize the enrolment process. First, make anorganizing committee for enrolment
management. Annually, it held at new academic year. This is including student body
analysis. Second, announce the open registration for public. This is including the
requirement for student candidate, such as National Examination Certificate. Third,
select
the student candidate. Commonly, it based on the test, such as psychological test,
scholastic test, potential academic test, physical test etc. Fourth, announce the admitted
students. They must register as a permanent student. Fifth, introduce the school
program and environment to the student.

C. Student Discipline and Development

Student administration could be control the documentation of student activities. Sriwati
Sunardjo and Budi Agusman Tandjung (2002: 74) wrote a few books which used to
control the student activities. They are register book, Klapper book, presence list,
students’ mutation book, students’ personal record book, scoring book, ledger, report
cards.

Coaching students can do with the application of discipline. It must be carried out
prudently, democratic and educative. This means were carried out in stages with the
type of disorder and the culprit. Stepping with prevention through the healing stages,
with the emphasis still rests on the substance rather than on student’s personality. In
addition, it also must keep a sense of love and respect of students not because of
hatred or emotional. Discipline is important to realize that the discipline was influenced
by various factors, such as the student environment. Therefore, teachers must
collaborate with parents to habits of discipline in schools would be maintained better.
There are three types of discipline.

1. "Inner Control" Technique

This technique is highly recommended for use in fostering teachers discipline their
students. This technique is growing sensitivity or awareness of the discipline. Ultimately
discipline must grow and evolve from the learners themselves (self discipline). In other
words, students are expected to control themselves.

2. "External Control" Technique

External control technique is a control from the outside the students such as guidance
and counseling. This technique is growing discipline tends to "control" (which is
sometimes if necessary, gives penalties for any violations).

3. "Cooperative Control" Technique

This technique is coaching discipline by working together. Teachers and students are
control the situation towards the realization of educational goals. They mutually control
each other for violations.

The other medium to build the student talent is student organizations. Student
organization is a medium to hold, distribute and develop the student creativity. This
organization consists of curricular and extracurricular activities in order to support a
success curricular.