New Student Enrollment Planning
To provide a welcoming environment for all incoming transfer students and to new
freshmen into the Freshman Academies, and to conduct welcome and/or orientation
programs geared to facilitate responsible and engaged new students. Follow up is
maintained through the first two semesters through activities such as the Early Alert
program.
Core Activities and Performance
Core Activity
Key PI
Indicators
Oversee and coordinate the pre-enrollment,
advisement and registraiton process for
freshmen.
Registration totals.
Meet the
College's
enrollment
goals.
Oversee and coordinate the pre-enrollment,
advisement, transfer evaluation, and
registration process for incoming transfer
students.
Registration totals.
Meet
College's
enrollment
goals.
In collaboration with the faculty coordinators, A total of 24 events was held with average attendance of 50.
Academy
design and host events of interest for
Focus for some academies -- STEM and Health specifically -- was assement
freshmen.
information about selection of and requirements for programs.
protocol as
well as
follow up of
those in
attendance
into the
following
semester.
Maintain ongoing contact with first and
Have not yet been able to secure reliable data for the Academy
second semester freshmen; including
database from CUNYfirst.
oversight of advisement/registraiton for those
freshmen entering second semester: the
latter represents recent initiative developed
with ST100 and the Academies. Too early to
assess.
Academy
database
and
retention, per
the College's
strategic
plan;
enrollment
into
high-impact
classes per
academy
assessment.
Conduct COLLEGE 101, an orientation held
two to four weeks after registration for new
freshmen; represents part one of required
freshmen orientaiton. (Followed by
FRESHMEN FIRST).
The "show-rate" for the five sessions conducted to date for Fall
2011 has been 82%; 25 additional sessions are scheduled
through August. Approximately 3000 freshmen are expected to
participate. Limited funds for the current fiscal year unfortunately
limited the number of sessions that could be offered.
Numbers of
students
signed on to
CUNYfirst
prior to first
day of class;
freshmen
orientation is
included in
College's
Strategic
Plan.
Host Transfer Student
WELCOME/Orientations
Not done this year due to limitied staff.
No
Participate in New Student Welcomes for
Freshmen
All Freshman Coordinators will present at the upcoming
Freshman Welcome, slated for June 20.
No but
related to
meeting
enrollment
targets.
Launched "pilot" of the IBM Alert project in
the STEM Academy.
Impact attendance in class and the numbers of WU grades given
to Freshmen. Data not yet available for the Spring 2011
outreach.
IBM grant.
Department-Sponsored Staff Development Activities
Activity Type
Topic
Date
Total
Freshman Academy Retreat
4/25/2011
10
Presentations at Freshman Academy Retreat
4/25/2011
10
IBM Early Alert project; CUNY General Education Conference
5/13/2011
1
gave presentations
Professional Achievements and Activities of Individual Staff
Achievement Type
Other
First Name
Last Name
Achievement
Semester
Susan
Curtis
Participation in AACU workshops at
LAG for ROADMAP project
Spring 2011
Patterson
Gail
Participation in AACU workshops at
LAG for ROADMAP project.
Spring 2011
Andrei
Lee
Participation in AACU workshops at
LAG on ROADMAP project.
Spring 2011
Natalie
Roopchand
Participation in AACU workshops for
ROADMAP project, held at LAG.
Spring 2011
Anna
Schneider
Participation in AACU workshops for
ROADMAP project, held at LAG.
Spring 2011
Kay Ann
Montaque
Designed and conducted training
sessions on CUNYfirst for staff from
NSE, Academic Advisement,
Counseling and ASAP. Also ran
training sessions with Ralph
Romanelli on CUNYFirst for
departmental secretaries.
Spring 2011
Conference, workshop,
training attended
Service to department,
College, University,
community, and/or
professional society
Changes in Department within Last Year
Change Type
Change
Reason
Semester
Personnel
(1) Elizabeth Watkins, Coordinator for New See above; personal and professional
Student Advisement and coordinator for the decisions.
transfer process, took unpaid leave of
absence, starting in November. She is due to
return on August 1. (2) Kimberly Brooks left
her position as Freshman Coordinator for
VAPA Academy in January. (3) Doreen
Fox-Herron, a non-teaching adjunct in the
Health Related Science Academy, took
full-time job in Registrar's Office this spring.
Spring 2011
Assessment and Evaluation
KPI
Target Outcome
Actual Outcome
Action Plan
Status
Conduct COLLEGE
101
Attendance
Strong "show-rate."
Adding an online
evaluation of the event
to be taken during the
Technology Workshop.
Continuing
Registration of New
Students
Enrollment targets set by
CUNY
Final data for Spring 2011 still
not available due to CUNYfirst;
surpassed Fall 2010 enrollment
goals for freshmen but not
transfers.
Include an on-site brief
survey at registraiton to
assess effectiveness of
the activity.
Continuing
Unable to conduct for Fall 2010
due to pending arrival of
CUNYfirst; however, in tandem
with ST100, outreach was
conducted by the Academies to
well over 600 freshmen who
failed to attend one of the first
two sessions of class. No final
follow-up of activity available.
The IBM pilot EARLY ALERT
project was the only form of
Early Alert conducted for Spring
2011. Data not yet available.
Plan now for online
interaction with faculty
for first semester
freshmen and transfers
regarding attendance
during the first two
weeks. This could
complement the IBM
project, expected to be
used college-wide by all
faculty teaching
Blackboard courses.
Continuing
EARLY ALERT project Decrease grades of WU
and WN
Assessment Plan
Core Activity
KPI
Target Outcome
Plan
Evaluation of Freshmen
and Transfer
Advisement/Registration
Activity
Enrollment
Gain better understanding of student Evaluations to be collected
expectations and needs; identify
on-site and additional sent
more streamlined approach to
online for feedback.
process.
Advisement for Freshman
Academy courses
Academy Assessment
protocol.
Learn how to better able keep
students enrolled in these classes.
Clearly identify what we are
telling students about these
classes, follow up sample at
end of semester to see if still
enrolled, and gain student
feedback during advisement
session for following
semester. (Work with Dr.
Fichera on design.)
Assessment Plan
Core Activity
KPI
Target Outcome
Plan
Attendance at COLLEGE
101
College's Strategic Plan
Measure student reaction and
accomplishment (did they get onto
Tiger Mail, e-portfolio, CUNYfirst);
identify key information points they
need to know and "test" what they
learned.
As stated, COLLEGE 101 will
include a brief evaluation
survey.