Established a personalized enrollment pathway for adult learners. Each student now jointly works with his/her admissions counselor and academic advisor to develop an enrollment pathway. This enrollment plan begins with a counseling session with an adult learner admissions counselor that outlines all possible pathways to establish successful academic and financial plans. The student finishes with a meeting with the academic advisor to work on placement and the first semester schedule.
Measure, metric, or data element
Preliminary metric associated with access for this traditionally underserved population: Enrollment yield for non-traditional age students (25 and older)
Baseline measures
30.3% (91 out of 300 total applicants enrolled). (fall 13, 14, and 15 combined)
Interim Measures of Progress
The development of this new Adult Learner Pathway has resulted in a substantial increase of registered adult learners. For fall 2016, the number of registered students increased from 29 to 52, a 79.3% increase from the fall 2015.
Measures of Success
Enrollment yield increased to 36.1% (52/144)
New approaches and pilots will often result in the disruption of long established traditions and protocols of advising. The College is already experiencing the implications of the new pathways on enrollment trends and now it needs to carefully monitor the efficacy of the pathway and how well students are progressing through the gateway courses.
