strategic enrollment management at uccs
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Strategic Enrollment Management
at UCCS
Campus Strategic Initiatives
• Academic Innovations
• Business Enterprise Management
• Efficiency & Effectiveness Measures
• Innovation Partnership Development
• Strategic Enrollment Management
Fall – Enrollment Trends
Fall 2009 Census
• Overall Student Credit Hours up 6.7%
• Most notable growth in:
– New transfers (+10.4%)
– Minority students (+10.6%)
– Graduate students (+15.6%)
– College of Education (+22.3%)
– College of Engineering (+13.5%)
– School of Public Affairs (+46.4%)
Retention/Persistence (Fall 2008 First-time Freshmen)
Retention/Persistence (Fall 2008 First-time Freshmen)
College Total N
N Retained
Retention Rate
Business 174 126 72%
Engineering 114 92 81%
Nursing 79 61 77%
Letters, Arts, & Sciences 764 472 62%
LAS Declared 471 317 67%
LAS Undecided 132 70 53%
LAS Pre-College 161 85 53%
Public Affairs 27 20 74%
What is Strategic Enrollment Management (SEM)?
Strategic Enrollment Management is a concept and process that enables the fulfillment of institutional mission and students’ educational goals.
- American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers
Student Success Continuum
Traditional Enrollment Perspective
Student’s college career
Recruitment/Marketing
Admissions Orientation
FinancialAid
ClassroomExperience
Co-curricularSupport
Degree/GoalAttainment
AcademicSupport
Retention
Student Success Continuum
SEM Perspective
Student’s college career
Recruitment/Marketing
Admissions Orientation
FinancialAid
ClassroomExperience
Co-curricularSupport
Degree/GoalAttainment
AcademicSupport
Retention
Enrollment Planning Model
MeetingGoals
Tactics
Strategies
Enrollment InfrastructureStructure, Staffing, Skills, Systems, Service
Data Collection and Analysis
Clear Mission and Goals
Typicalstarting point
Starting point for
long-term success
UCCS SEM Plan
UCCS SEM Plan• AACRAO SEM Conference, November 2008
• SEM Working Group: SEM Planning Document
– Planning Assumptions
– Student data
– Existing resources
• June Leadership Team Retreat
New Initiatives Underway
Chair: RegistrarChair: AVCAA
SEM Steering Council
SEM Steering Council
Chair: Chancellor
Academic Affairs Group Student Success Group
Academic Affairs Group• Faculty and staff from the colleges and Student Success
• Two early areas of focus:
– Communicating the quality and nature of academics at UCCS to prospective students in program-specific ways
– Academic impacts on retention
• At-risk: identifying and addressing students and courses
• Undecideds and pre-professional majors
Student Success Group
• Student Success, Financial Services and Academic Departments and Faculty.
• Early Areas of Focus – Recruitment and Persistence and connecting to campus.
– Expanded and orchestrated efforts
– Integration and coordination across units
– Short and long term strategies building on initiatives in CRM, Recruitment, Tours, Orientation and progression towards degree.
New Initiatives Underway
• Reach Higher Marketing Campaign
– Sets messaging and creative tone for advertising, promotion & recruitment
– Promotes student, faculty, alumni stories
– Expected three-year life span
New Initiatives Underway• Reach Students Earlier with Direct Marketing
– Tailor specific messages to students based on their characteristics, for example:
• Academic preparation
• Academic interests
• Where they live
– 22,000 postcards to high school seniors
• All well-qualified, most expressing interest in a major we have
• Colorado, California and Arizona
Also on the Agenda• Graduate Student Recruiting and
Retention
• First Generation, Low-Income and Historically-Disadvantaged Populations in Southern Colorado
• Transfer Students and Adult Learners
• Distance Education and Extended Studies
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