2026 SAIS Annual Conference

Independent schools are being asked to make faster, higher-stakes institutional advancement decisions with limited time and scattered information. This session offers a practical Enroll–Support–Advance playbook for using AI to turn your school’s data into insight and action. Participants will learn how AI can help combine admissions, financial aid, and community data to spot under-reached local markets and better align enrollment outcomes with demographic and socioeconomic goals. We will also show how AI can help schools build a more complete picture of student success and improve student support by analyzing patterns across multiple academic and well-being indicators. Finally, we will share workflow designs for AI-assisted admissions application reading and AI-supported donor prospecting and next steps, freeing institutional advancement professionals from tedious legwork and empowering them to deliver on the human value proposition of their schools.