EHE Task Force to Enhance the Student Experience and Enrollment

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This task force was co-chaired by Kelly Crawford, Arpana Inman and Erik Porfeli and received appreciable support from Andy Zircher and Janet Ciccone. The mission of the task force is to concurrently enhance the student experience, enrollment and student outcomes in a manner aligned with the mission, values, pillars and resources of the college and its units. The task force was composed of college faculty and staff, who are identified in the report linked below. 

The charge of the task force was to achieve seven goals that amount to a continuous quality improvement process devoted to the teaching mission of the college. The first three goals include:

• Goal 1 involved composing and organizing the task force
• Goal 2 was devoted to the task force conducting an evaluation of enrollment, the student experience and the finance of the EHE teaching mission
• Goal 3 involved refining the evaluation

The linked report constitutes the achievement of goals one, two and three. This report is divided into sections that include:

• Executive Summary (pp. 4-12). The executive summary encompasses all major elements and findings presented in sections 1, 2 and 3.   
• Section 1: Enrollment (pp.  13-43). This section focuses on the enrollment trends of all major educational programs within the college's three departments.  
• Section 2: The Student Experience (pp. 45-67). This section focuses on trends in terms of the student experience from recruitment through graduation. 
• Section 3: Finance (pp. 68-86). This section focuses on the revenues and expenses of the major educational programs within the college's three academic departments.

This evaluation report will serve as a primary source of information to advance the remaining four goals of the task force.

• Goal 4 engages the college community in the evaluation and providing comments. 
• Goal 5 begins the innovation phase by creating mechanisms within departments and across the college to solicit and support innovations to enhance the student experience and enrollment.
• Goal 6 begins the action phase by enacting and evaluating the impact of innovations to enhance the student experience and enrollment.
• Goal 7 translates the goals of the task force into a data-driven continuous quality improvement process guiding new innovations and investments toward enhancing enrollment and the student experience across the college and within departments.