Access to Completion
Panel Participants:
Louis Jimenez, University Registrar, Texas State University
Dean Rathe, Executive Director of Enrollment Services, Red Rocks
Community College
Jeff Rhodes, University Registrar, University of Texas Pan American
Sarah Collins, VP of Business Strategies, Ad Astra
Moderator: Stacey White, VP of Client Success, Ad Astra Information Systems
March 31, 2014
Agenda
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Introductions
Advancing Student Success
Increasing Capacity and Efficiency
Data and Change Management
Questions and Answers
• Dean Rathe – Executive Director, Enrollment Services
• 10 years at RRCC
• Implemented Ad Astra Strategic Checkup – 2012
• Official Fall 2013 Enrollment: 8,608
• Annual Unduplicated Headcount: 14,351
• One of 13 colleges in Colorado Community College
System
Introductions – Texas State University
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Lou Jimenez – University Registrar
6 Months at Texas State; 6yrs at University of AL
Ad Astra User for @ 8yrs
Implemented Platinum Analytics at UA
Official Fall 2012 Enrollment: 34,225
– Undergraduates: 29,458
– Graduates: 4089
• Number of Course Sections Fall 2014: @9113
• Number of Lecture Class Rooms : @214
Introductions - UTPA
• 20,053 students in fall 2013
• 3rd largest Hispanic-Serving Institution in the
nation
• Will be abolished in 2015, then consolidated with
UTB to create UTRGV
• Recently began scheduling rooms using the
optimizer – seeing results and pushback from
some faculty.
Noel Levitz Student Satisfaction Survey
2012
Identified Key Challenges for College Students:
– Student Response: “Ability to get the courses I
need with few conflicts” was the top challenge
– Institution Response: “Ability to get the courses I
need with few conflicts” was not ranked in top 25
© 2012 Noel-Levitz, Inc. • www.noellevitz.com
Advancing Student Success -Questions
1. How have national/state level completion
initiatives influenced your institution?
2. How big a problem is conflict-free access to
required courses on your campus? What are you
doing to improve students’ experience at
registration?
Increasing Capacity and Efficiency Questions
1. Are you “out of space?” If so, how do you know?
What is the impact of your answer to this
question on your campus?
2. How efficient is your institution relative to
aligning course offerings to evolving student
need and faculty pedagogical need? What are
you doing to improve this? What will the impact
be?
The Five Dysfunctions of Scheduling*
• Lack of TRUST
• Fear of CONFLICT
• Lack of COMMITMENT
• Avoidance of ACCOUNTABILITY
• Inattention to RESULTS
Lencioni, P., (2002). The five dysfunctions of a team: A leadership fable. San
Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.
Change Management - Questions
1. What needs to happen on your campus to
maximize the strategic and pragmatic impact of
data and analytics?
2. How do you define “progress” in this area? How
do you share and talk about it?
Notable Quotes
“In times of change learners inherit the earth; while
the learned find themselves beautifully equipped
to deal with a world that no longer exists.”
Eric Hoffer
“If you don’t like change, you’re going to like
irrelevance even less.”
General Eric Shinseki, Former Chief of Staff of the Army
Questions and Answers
Thank You!
Louis Jimenez, Texas State University
lej27@txstate.edu
Dean Rathe, Red Rocks Community College
Dean.rathe@rrcc.edu
Jeff Rhodes, University of Texas Pan American
rhodesjh@utpa.edu
Sarah Collins, Ad Astra Information Systems
scollins@aais.com
Stacey White, Ad Astra Information Systems
swhite@aais.com
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