ENROLLMENT MANAGEMENT IMPLEMENTATION TEAM | ACTION PLAN
Meeting or Exceeding the 2011-13 Biennial Budget Performance Outcomes
ACTIONS/STRATEGIES
LEAD
PERSON
COLLABORATIVE
PARTNERS
TIMELINE
ESTIMATED COSTS
PERSONNEL IMPACT
Enrollment growth (Classified, undergraduate resident FTE)
Recruiting visits to competitors
All
CCs, UHM,
2011-2012
Attract undeclared College students by
increasing 100-200 level courses, inviting
them to Ag Club events
Shift non lab courses to be on-line
All
UHH in house
2011-2012
All
NHERC, CCEDS
All
High School
Counselors
Expand Career Day activities at Hawaii High
Schools to include other counties
$2000 for campus
visits
3 X $8000 for
lecturers
Increased advising
2011 Fall
None - low
2011-2012
$2000 for interisland air fares
Shift one course/faculty
to on-line presentation
Require each faculty
member to rotate
responsibility
Increased advising
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Have a CAFNRM $100 prize to best High
School Science Fair agricultural project to
encourage winning students to consider
CAFNRM and UHH for upper education
Form an
Awards
Committee
amongst
Faculty
High School
Science Fair
advisors
2012 and there-after
$500/year
Develop a Face book/Skype presence and a
new interactive web site enabling applicants
to ask questions of the program
Dean
Website developer
Part time web
expert/student
2011
$3000-$5000
Connect to 4-H, FFA, Farm Bureau, Trade
Associations and Hawaii Organic Grower
Associations to promote CAFNRM as a
choice for education
Dean, faculty
with member
ships
4H, FFA, FB, Orchid
Growers
Association, HOFE
2011-2012
$500
Service Time on
Committee and visiting
Science Fairs
minutes a day by each
faculty member to check
questions addressed to
their program
none
Number of degrees/certificates awarded (BOR-approved certificates only; simultaneously awarded degrees allowed)
Establish a one-year, Agriculture Technician
certificate ofr beginning adult farmers who
wish to have a certification to obtain loans,
run this through NHERC
Obtain BOR approval for current certificates
if not already done (e.g. Certificate in
Micropropagation, Forestry), add three new
certificates one each for aquaculture, for
resource management, and for equine
Dean plus
Lead
Professors
for each
specialty or
lecturers
Farm Bureau,
HOFE, County of
Hawaii, NHERC
2012
$16,000 for two
lecturers
One course load release
for participating
professors (granting this
would offset the
monetary request for
lecturers)
Lead
Professor for
each special
area
In-house
2011
None
None; courses for the
most part already exist
but re-alignment may be
needed.
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management
Develop and focus a senior year Capstone
course for each specialty which integrates
the 4 year learning experience and which
will focus the student’s post-graduate
career. At this time establish internships
with companies, farmers, etc in which the
Capstone project will be the guiding
component.
Develop an in-house CAFNRM “Retention
Committee” to study CAFNRM retention
rates, establish student promotions that
capture and retain student interest, and
promote Student Ag Club events to make
the student experience a valuable one
All
Community
farmers, ranchers,
ag corporations,
Federal and State
agencies, etc
2012
$300/student as
seed money for
their individual
projects; this could
be raised from
participating
partners
Faculty advising time
may increase.
All
Establish a UHF
account to capture
donations from the
Community to
support committee
goals
2012
None
Faculty meeting time.
Number of undergraduate degrees/certificates awarded to Native Hawaiians
Work with Ka Haka Ula to encourage
curriculum coordination between HawCC
Hawaiian Lifestyles Program and Ka Haka
Ula. This is an ongoing discussion that needs
to be nurtured forward.
Silva/Wilson
HawCC Hawaiian
Lifestyles faculty
To begin in earnest
To be determined
before the end of this
semester, with concrete
agreements by the end of
AY 2011.
To be determined
Promote recognize that Agriculture is also a
STEM field, enfold STEM strageties here.
Steiner
STEM Committee
2011
None
None
Continue to increase funding for HIP and
PIPES students, perhaps tie a certificate of
accomplishment to those students who
ZieglerChong
Create a pathway
for HCC and CC
students to enter
2011-2012
Summer
internships; these
are usually paid
Bring Ziegler-Chong on
full time to manage and
continue to build this
Simmons
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matriculate through these support programs
to give them credibility with Federal and
State Agencies who hire them.
Research
Office
the NRM program
via these summer
internships
through grants or
contributions by
Federal and State
agencies
program and develop
ties for it.
Number of undergraduate degrees/certificates awarded in STEM fields-NOTE: all agriculture degrees are by definition STEM degrees where indigenous
students are involved
Target recruiting in schools with high Native Dedicated
Advisors of target
2011-ongoing
Salary for recruiter None
Hawaiian enrollment
recruiter
schools,
$800 travel budget
Office of Hawaiian
Affairs
Develop Kamehameha Schools-UHH farm
All
Kamehameha
2011-2012
$3000 work-study
Some advising may be
above Hilo for outreach to K.S. students
Schools, Office of
grants for
necessary from Faculty
Hawaiian Affairs
participating
members
students; write
grants for facility
development
Continue to develop a working relationship
Dean
Mike Robinson
2011-ongoing
$30000 work-study Some advising may be
with the Hawaii State Department of
grants for
necessary from Faculty
Hawaiian Homelands for student oriented
participating
members
projects on the Mauna Kea DHHL Aina
students from
Mauna Kea Legacy Program
development
grants
Continue to develop a working relationship
B. Mathews
Boys and Girls Club 2011-ongoing
$500/year for
None
with Kaiao Garden Club, Hilo
N. Aroncon
Develop the Agricultural Engineering
Dean
COP, State
2011-ongoing
$300,000 in hand,
5 new faculty to be
Program with an Indigenous Engineering
Legislature
another $1.6
added beginning 2012
component
million to be
sought from State
Number of Pell grant recipients
Numbers of Pell grant Recipients have
increased from 39 in Fall, 2009 to 42 in Fall
20 10 with a projected rise to 64 in Fall 2011
This is a growth from 27.6% of all CAFNRM
Research
Office
Student
Admissions
2011-ongoing
None
None
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students to 37.65% of all students.
Given that we are experiencing a growth
averaging 5%/year we do not anticipate
having to do anything to support addition of
more unless this growth reverses.
Number of transfers from UH System community colleges
Hawaii CC transfer; establish a committee of
UH Hilo and HawCC personnel (to include
HawCC advisors) to determine strategies to
encourage transfer
Simmons
Work with Ka Haka Ula to encourage
curriculum coordination between HawCC
Hawaiian Lifestyles Program and Ka Haka
Ula. This is an ongoing discussion that needs
to be nurtured forward.
Silva/Wilson
Work with CAFNRM to create an articulation
agreement between HawCC TEAM Forestry
and CAFNRM Natural Resources
Management
Dean Steiner
Continue to meet with Maui College, WCC
on Oahu and Kauai CC to develop final
articulation agreements with these colleges
Dean steiner
and B.
Mathews
Marcel Tsang
I hope to enlist Joni
Onishi, the VCAA at
HawCC.
To begin before the end
To be determined
of the semester. Time
frame for the proposal of
specific curriculum or
administrative initiatives
– by the end of AY 2011.
To begin in earnest
To be determined
before the end of this
semester, with concrete
agreements by the end of
AY 2011.
None
HawCC Team
Forestry
Simmons as
administrative
support
2011
None
Some advising time
from Faculty may be
required.
Ag Advisors and
program heads at
CCs
2011
$800 for recruiting
trips
Some advising time
from Faculty may be
required
HawCC Hawaiian
Lifestyles faculty
Simmons
Some advising time
from Faculty may be
required.
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