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Dmetri Berko

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Acting Regional Director of Operations, Campus Director, Visual College of Art & Design

2021 SEM-EP Graduate

Dmetri Berko has devoted his career to helping businesses and institutions achieve operational excellence. By breaking down complex systems, Dmetri has identified and enabled efficiencies, and provided clarity to the sphere of Recruitment and Enrolment Management.

Dmetri’s practical and forthright style has contributed to positive changes and increased productivity across the spectrum from public to private colleges and universities. His tenacity and constant questioning of operational systems results in transformational progress wherever he serves.

He currently serves as Campus Director, Online for the Visual College of Art and Design and Acting Regional Director of Operations, VCAD.  

Dmetri has a Bachelors of Science in Geography from the University of Calgary, a Master’s of Project Management from Keller Graduate School of Management, and internationally recognized professional designations in Human Resources (RPR, CPHR, and SHRM-SCP), Management (CMP), and Project Management (PMP). 

Capstone Project: Focusing on Student Retention

A literature review focusing on retention initiatives that begin at the outset of the recruitment process and target activities to engage diverse and sometimes disparate students engaging in activities that reinforce learning and academic-outcomes. Activities such as extended-orientation, high-intensity and high-frequency events with consideration to student-body demographics and their relationship to the curriculum will produce better outcomes. Particular attention must be paid to the student-lifecycle, wherein engagement aught to be tailored to the changing-needs and managed-expectations of the student-body, as they progress through their studies and past graduation.