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Dean’s 2012 Task Force: Enrollment Management

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“Charge” to the Enrollment Management Task Force

College of Education

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David Hough, Interim Dean

College of Education

August 16, 2012

Members: Fred Groves (RFT) – Chair, Julie Ann Jenkins (GLS), Joanna Cemore-Brigden (CEFS), Kim Finch (CLSE), Judy Pickering (OSS)

Choose a task force chair who agrees to facilitate the process of reviewing strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats to COE efforts to increase enrollments in undergraduate and graduate programs. Examine enrollment trends in all programs and prioritize programs in greatest need of supports. Identify and prioritize greatest needs. Include suggestions for consideration by the COE Leadership Council and Budget Committee. Provide a written report of 1,000 words or fewer by October 15, 2012.  Present findings to the COE during its fall 2012 or winter 2013 meeting.

Questions Guiding Inquiry:

  1. Which programs are in greatest need? Why?
  2. Should any needs assessments be conducted to determine if new programs should be considered? If so, why? If not, why not?
  3. Should any program be examined more thoroughly? Is so, which one(s)? Why?
  4. Have COE programs been supported equally over the past 3 years? (e.g., GAs, per course, faculty lines.)
  5. What COE efforts over the past 3 years have been undertaken to market programs, increase student enrollments, and promote retention in undergraduate and graduate programs? Which of these have been effective? Why?
  6. What types of marketing approaches should be considered in an effort to recruit new students?
  7.  What types of diversity recruitment efforts should be undertaken to increase the number of minority students who choose to become educators?