· Course offerings (see original packet for additional information)

· Image & Information

· Facilitating Matriculation

· Recruit from Jr. Hi. Grades special Jr. Hi. visits to campus (see original packet for additional information)

· Summer College – like USCC does – see attached

· (Run Summer College for fun & recruitment, not profit only)

· Have faculty visit H.S. and give some talks- Dino Hunt, Poetry, Autopsy talk, German

· Emphasis on Science Olympics, Quiz Bowl and other competitions

· One stop shop

· Advertise to adults about missed opportunities

· Get faculty, staff, student involved with recruiting

· More continuing Educations classes

· Orientation classes

· Offer courses when students can take them.

· Provide more distance education, web based instruction and alternate delivery

· Recruit adult students (non traditional)

· Walk through admissions process/remove road blocks

· Provide "one stop shop"/ eliminate run around

· More formal process or structure (see original packet for additional information)

· Gain earlier commitment from prospects

· Better marketing of help available for students

· Summer early start program

· Convocation

· Offer more bachelor’s programs

· Market outstanding faculty members credentials and accomplishments

· Emphasize low cost for high quality instructor/services

· Expend and market summer course offerings

· Recruit in Ohio counties within commuting distance

· Offer courses when "students" can take them

· Offer more and various courses in summer

· "One stop shop" to stop shuffle

· Offer more Web based courses

· Communicate more w/parents of high school students

· Phone registration

· More bachelor programs

· Define associate degree programs

· Explore housing possibilities

· Beautify the campus

· One-stop enrollment

· One stop shop

· Summer awareness programs

· More C.E. programs

· Hire another admissions recruiter

· Introduce community to Brown Bag Lunch

· Always friendly – nice staff at records office

· Improve image

· Communicate – Parents, students and community

· Offer more minority scholarships

· Develop an honors program

· Advertise to adults who have missed educational opportunities

· Beautify the campus

· Recruit international students

· Brag/advertise

· Provide one stop shop

· Buy ACT scores

· Walk the process

· Offer more scholarships

· One stop shop – Great idea!

· Poor course scheduling

· Advertisement (Use pictures of students)

· Improve recruitment

· Beautify campus – Sidewalks and upper parking lot ( No smoking in entrances to WVU-P)

· Computerized testing

· Testing, advising and registering in one day

· Advertising, put $$ into TV commercials – 1 to non-traditional students- 1 to High School students

· Strengthen ties with H.S. – they are pretty good now at most

· Beautify the campus

· Involve faculty, staff and students with the recruiting effort

· Project a positive academic image of WVU-P through high school counselors

· Offer more 4-year programs

· Buy ACT scores of high school students and target them through letters and calls

· Focus on parents our affordable cost, quality faculty, small classes, quality academics, etc.

· Allow for one-line registration for approved students (No need for them to chase advisor in some cases.)

· Have some advising sessions (kind of like the open-house)

· Work out placement process (cut offs etc.) Ex. Calc. in #’s but place in Math 114 – work out why this is the case

· Hire another recruiter

· Remove roadblocks that cause students to become discouraged

· Offer courses when students can take them

· Offer more and varied courses in summer school

· Offer summer academy – English, Math, Reading – to prepare for Fall

· Provide more distance education, Web based programs

· Offer more and varied courses in summer school

· Identify and overcome barrels to matriculation

· Offer more scholarships

· Communicate more with community, especially parents

· Buy ACT names…

· Hire another admissions recruiter

· Promote good relationship with high school counselors

· Get faculty, staff, students more involved with recruiting

· Provide one stop shop so students aren’t shuffled from one person…

· Make individual home visits to prospective student and his/her parents having all information available.

· Marketing campaign directed at those intending to transfer.

· Bring back Super Sat.

· More involvement with H.S. students

· Promote good relationships with high school counselors; educate them about WVU-P

· Clarify enrollment steps & provide one-stop-shop.

· Brag about our good points

· Develop summer awareness programs for jr. high age

· Beautify the campus

· Showcase students who were leaders at their high schools to appeal to the next class.

· Develop scholarships that do not consider grade point averages for adult who have been out of school for five years or more.

· Admissions process –explore and over come barriers

· Involve faculty, staff, students and alumni in recruitment

· Brag – affordable, personal attention, small classes, good value

· More 4 yr. Programs and/or strengthen transfer program

· Explore housing options for more distant students

· Streamline the admissions process

· Hire an additional recruiter

· Beautify the campus

· Better into about jobs – market career programs

· Advertisement of our faculty

· Attract more Ohio students; metro fees

· Beautify the campus

· Offer summer academy

· Offer more bachelor programs

· Offer more continuing ed. Programs

· Refurbish Image – Market ourselves more & better

· Offer courses when students can take them – Revise overall schedule perhaps M-W, T-R courses and Block schedule on Fir & Sat 3 evenings.

· Streamline enrollment and matriculation

· Improve relationship with high schools and alumni

· Summer academy – Excellent Idea!

· Friendly

· Take some professors to a high school for a day – have mini classes.

· Communicate w/parents, students, staff and faculty

· Letters to Alumni’s children (scholarships)

· Especially for students home for the summer – classes. Our schedule is so weak.

 

 

· Placement based on leaning skills, motivation, goals as well as knowledge.

· Improve success of students in developmental courses (see original packet for additional information)

· Have faculty tutor 1-2 hr. per week, built into office hours

· Set good standards and keep them

· Evaluate placement testing policies (Compare to requirements at other colleges)

· Offer more developmental short courses in summer

· Make available good students data

· Provide more flexible paced courses

· Improve perception of WVU-P as transfer institution

· Make sure each student has an active, interested adviser

· More 4 year degrees

· More summer programs

· I.D. weak students

· Recognize misplaces students

· Require all students to take Orientation to college class (see original packet for additional information)

· Common hour or common day for NO classes

· Incorporate mission into all that we do

· Student activities is a business

· Create learning communities here

· Offer more bachelor’s programs

· Insist on high standards of academic performance and class attendance

· Revise academic advising (two years of discussion, committee work, etc. have been ignored)

· Develop a sense of community

· Expand summer offerings and encourage students to take more reasonable loads during the year.

· Identify weak students

· Remove barriers to registration and advising

· Increase student related activities

· Improve contact between advisers/students

· Identify weak students

· Develop more 4 year programs

· More students activities – tables with chairs in lounge area for students to socialize and study when they don’t need quiet space – Tables with seats in front of schools so they don’t have to look like there’re sitting on a bench at a bus stop.

· Beautify campus (that with which we are surrounded has much to do with mental health)

· Possible mentoring program

· Computerize placement tests

· Strengthen advising

· Develop mentoring program

· More student activities

· More 4 year programs

· Look at the faculty we have- all are not the "greatest"

· Work with the students

· Improve availability of classes.

· Offer courses each semester and not just once a year

· Help with finance

· Mentoring program

· Make sure each student has an adviser

· Identify weak students

· Develop more 4 year programs

· More flexible courses

· Identify weak students

· Strengthen advising

· Remove barriers

· Review previous classes.

· Make sure each student has adviser

· More summer classes

· More 4 year programs

· Strengthen Advising/ Advisers need to be available more.

· Explore Fin. Aid issues

· More students activities

· Improve perception of WVU-P as transfer institution

· Stress the importance of meeting more than once with adviser (not just for scheduling)

· Advisor availability

· Advisors communicate w/at-risk students after mid-terms come our

· Peer mentoring

· Advertise helping services to students – Career center, CLEP exams, tutoring, ADA, etc.

· Work with faculty who consistently treat students badly

· Identify weak students

· Improve advising

· Need for more student activities

· Careful advising fro undecided students

· Improve image of WVU-P as a transfer institution

· Return student tutoring for classes above foundations level

· Computerize placement tests and improve initial placement

· Strengthen advising and make sure each student has one

· Offer more developmental summer programs

· Remove barriers/more tutoring.

· More assistance when pre-registering

· Identify weak students

· Create greater structure – more contact with students

· Explore financial aid issues

· Strengthen advising

· Recognize misplaced students

· Identify weak students

· Improve perception of WVU-P as transfer institution

· Review previous classes students have taken/ check classes dropped/failed etc.

· Pay attention to student’s evaluation of faculty and how many students drop certain classes, etc.

· First get a good handle on the numbers

· Explore Saturday college

· Explore credits taken in 4’s and 2’s

· More social opportunities for traditional age

· Add more recreation facilities – Tennis courts - swimming pool

· Strengthen advising

· Explore financial aid issues

· Provide more guidance to undecided students

· Provide more assistance when pre-registering

· Make sure each student has an adviser

· Survey the students who have dropped out in the last three years and find out what would have make them likely to remain at WVUP

· Develop career connections and networking opportunities for students so that they can "see" realistic job opportunities when they obtain certain degrees.

· Developmental courses in summer and/or modules

· Improve transfer programs / more 4 year programs

· Early intervention program (before mid term grades)

· Strengthen advising or provide mentor for each student

· More student activities including – student housing options

· Strengthen advising

· Computerize placement testing

· Offer more developmental summer programs

· More student activities

· More guidance to undecided

· Develop more 4 year programs

· More student activities

· Focus on average & weak student services

· Advising, advising, advising!

· Course and schedule flexibility

· Improve our transfer institution image

· Do the business, ed. and BAT well!

· Faculty member not saying on the 1^st day Half of you will fail

· Positive attitudes – faculty and staff, bookstore and café.

· Classes offered so "2" required classes aren’t same on the same days and too many unused – same times

· Transcript delay when they are standing right there- attitude problem explaining.