CHANCELLOR’S C-DIRECT August 18, 2016 Dear Colleagues: The new academic year is here and thousands of students are excited to soon be with us and to join some of you in the classroom. We have started to make significant efforts to improve our outreach and enrollment management I am happy with the work Tamika Brown, pictured, is doing, along with our College recruiters. There remains a lot more to do, particularly in with regard to implementing automated systems as a means to communicate with students. We also need to do more collaborative work to retain more of the students who come to us—all of us need to work together to inspire our students to stay in college and to ensure that our students are receiving the services that they need to get an education. We, of course, know that some of our Colleges have limited hours for student services, but we are working to meet our students’ needs. A major challenge is to better coordinate all Student Services personnel, so that students receive reliable information from all of us. This is a major task that will take time to develop we continue to more clearly delineate functions between District personnel and the Colleges’ operations. A good indication of the urgency being placed on this issue is the fact that a meeting is being held on August 26th for the recruiters and Enrollment Management folks to discuss plans for increasing enrollment for this fall and to take the necessary steps to increase enrollment for Spring, Summer and Fall 2017. PCCD’s proactive stance on Enrollment Management will also help in ensuring that students are ready to be in class when classes start and not two weeks later. This is a communication I sent to the Presidents and the Vice Presidents of Instruction: Dear Colleagues, This is the season when students attempt to get into classes late after a couple of sessions have taken place. I have received a few requests from instructors asking that faculty authorize any late add past the first-class session or two. Please review your policies and communicate with faculty and staff who are helping students to get into classes in order to make sure that the students have an opportunity to succeed by having the faculty help them. For some of our students, it may be that they are early for the next semester if they show up too late for this one. So, figure out a
CHANCELLOR’S C-DIRECT August 18, 2016 Dear Colleagues: The new academic year is here and thousands of students are excited to soon be with us and to join some of you in the classroom. We have started to make significant efforts to improve our outreach and enrollment management I am happy with the work Tamika Brown, pictured, is doing, along with our College recruiters. There remains a lot more to do, particularly in with regard to implementing automated systems as a means to communicate with students. We also need to do more collaborative work to retain more of the students who come to us—all of us need to work together to inspire our students to stay in college and to ensure that our students are receiving the services that they need to get an education. We, of course, know that some of our Colleges have limited hours for student services, but we are working to meet our students’ needs. A major challenge is to better coordinate all Student Services personnel, so that students receive reliable information from all of us. This is a major task that will take time to develop we continue to more clearly delineate functions between District personnel and the Colleges’ operations. A good indication of the urgency being placed on this issue is the fact that a meeting is being held on August 26th for the recruiters and Enrollment Management folks to discuss plans for increasing enrollment for this fall and to take the necessary steps to increase enrollment for Spring, Summer and Fall 2017. PCCD’s proactive stance on Enrollment Management will also help in ensuring that students are ready to be in class when classes start and not two weeks later. This is a communication I sent to the Presidents and the Vice Presidents of Instruction: Dear Colleagues, This is the season when students attempt to get into classes late after a couple of sessions have taken place. I have received a few requests from instructors asking that faculty authorize any late add past the first-class session or two. Please review your policies and communicate with faculty and staff who are helping students to get into classes in order to make sure that the students have an opportunity to succeed by having the faculty help them. For some of our students, it may be that they are early for the next semester if they show up too late for this one. So, figure out a
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