We’ll talk about this a lot this season but terminology is key in helping to frame and translate your higher education experience into a corporate setting. This terminology is useful for articulating your skills and experience on your application materials (e.g. resume and cover letter). It is also helpful as you begin in your next role outside of education.
| Higher Ed | Corporate |
|---|---|
| Academic Year | Fiscal Year |
| Admissions & enrollment | Recruiting |
| Big picture | Macro |
| Brainstorm | Ideate and iterate |
| Cabinet | C-Suite |
| Calling or emailing someone | Reach out |
| Capacity to work/availability | Bandwidth |
| Change the criteria for success | Move the goalposts |
| Collection of measurements | Dashboard |
| Conference | Tradeshow |
| Create | Launch |
| Criteria | Metrics |
| Deadline | Hardstop |
| Presentation (powerpoint) | Deck |
| Discuss later | Circle back/ parking out |
| Diversity education | Diversity, equity & inclusion |
| Evaluations | Reviews |
| Find errors | Scrub the numbers |
| Frequency/pacing of something | Cadence |
| Goals, Objectives, Outcomes | KPIs, OKRs, MBOs |
| Improve | Amplify |
| Learning Outcomes | ROI (Return on Investment) |
| Managing timelines | Project management |
| Orientation | Onboarding |
| Persistence | Logo and/or Net Retention |
| Person with expertise/leading an initiative | Subject Matter Expert (SME) |
| Post-enrollment | Post-sales |
| Pre-enrollment | Pre-sales |
| President/Chancellor | Chief Executive Officer (CEO) |
| Prospective Students | Prospects |
| Quantifiable service or good | Deliverable |
| Resident director | Building manager Community builder Conflict resolution Frontline emergency response |
| Retreat | Offsite |
| Semesterly | Quarterly |
| Share with stakeholders | Socialize an idea |
| Shared Governance | Board of Directors |
| SIS | CRM/SalesForce |
| Specialty area | Wheelhouse |
| Stakeholders | Shareholders |
| Student activities | Employee or Customer Engagement |
| Student experience | Customer lifecycle Customer experience |
| Student surveys | Pulse surveys/customer insights |
| Students | Customers or Participants |
| Supervision | Talent management |
| Teaching / course or curriculum creation | Learning or instructional design |
| Things that are easier to do than others | Low hanging fruit |
| Thorough examine ideasl | Deep dive/unpack |
| Touch base offline | Meet and talk separately |
| Training & professional development | Learning & development |
| Training program | Learning solution |
| Unavailable for a period of time | Out of pocket |
