Enrollment Management
Enrollment Management Plan
Stated Goals of the Enrollment Management Plan
- Help students efficiently complete their educational goals
- Establish consistent parameters for the scheduling process and product
- Meet efficient use of fiscal, physical, and human resources
- Standardize the process and make it predictable and replicable
- Allow for catching conflicts and deficiencies upstream, before schedule is live
- Facilitate partnerships and cross-division discussions and integrated planning
- Cultivate a culture of evaluation through a common and transparent frame of reference for understanding and assessing performance goals and targets
- Expand and maximize diversity of delivery methods
- Ensure adequate diversity of course options for student experimentation and enrichment
- Facilitate future multi-term scheduling in support of guided pathways
- Foster integrated planning
- Reduce inter-district enrollment swirl; make Gavilan a destination college
Measurable Outcomes for Goals
The following list of outcomes is to be evaluated annually using the performance metrics discussed in a later section of this plan.
- Reduction in audit findings related to schedule
- Enrollment Management Plan is widely understood and consistently implemented
- Student outcomes improve, including but not limited to degree completion and reduced time to degree
- Instructional efficiency and effectiveness will improve
- Common and recurring scheduling challenges will be addressed
- Facilities will be more efficiently scheduled to maximize utilization and minimize “down time”
- Increased satisfaction of enrollment practices among stakeholders
- Decrease in number of cancelled classes; add more predictability to part-time faculty loads