milestone 2

HEA 610 Milestone Two Guidelines and Rubric An effective enrollment strategy considers the needs of the prospective students and the mission, resources, and strategic vision of the institution. The enrollment strategy is the difference between realizing institutional goals or faltering and just surviving. The entire institution rests on meeting enrollment budgets. If the budgets are not met, the ripple effect impacts every corner of the institution and can result in reducing programs, staffs, and resources. Enrollment is not just about enrolling new students. Good enrollment strategies consider the entire collegiate experience and plot the path from orientation to graduation. For this milestone, submit a comprehensive strategic enrollment management plan. Identify the institutional goals that can be realized, with sound enrollment decisions, if your plan is adopted. The strategic enrollment plan must be clearly aligned to the institution’s mission, vision, and strategic objectives. This section of your final project will build on your previous submitted work by expanding the peer analysis, conducting the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threat (SWOT) analysis, identifying key performance indicators (KPI), and a market analysis. Specifically, the following critical elements must be addressed:

I. Institutional Goals For each of the institutional goals, create aligned, cogent objectives (for instance, approximately three objectives per goal) that clearly delineate the plan. Ensure that they align to the institution’s mission and vision. The enrollment objectives should be achievable and inspirational and should push the institution’s strategic vision to a new level. Utilize the following institutional goals:

a. Goal 1: Enhance marketing, recruitment, and early outreach strategies from initial contact through first-day attendance and first-year persistence.

b. Goal 2: Increase the probability of student achievement through the development of early academic and support strategies targeted for the student’s first-year experience.

c. Goal 3: Enhance academic programs and support systems in order to improve student persistence and student success.

II. Determine the Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) Determine the KPIs according to your institution’s mission, strategic vision, and resources. Identify the quantifiable measures you will use to gauge the performance of your objectives. Explain why you selected these KPIs. Ensure any relevant external influences, such as state regulations or accrediting agency requirements, are met. Justify how the metrics will be utilized to measure performance. These are common (but not necessarily exhaustive) KPIs for enrollment offices. The KPIs would have specific metrics to meet institutional goals to:

a. Determine leads, the pool of prospective students who would likely meet admissions requirements. b. Acquire prospective candidate students, the students who show interest in the institution by requesting information or otherwise engage the

institution for the purpose of potentially enrolling. c. Engage interested candidate students, the students who submit an application for admission.

d. Ensure enrolled candidate students, the students who have met the minimum requirements for admission and who commit to attending, typically with a deposit or a letter of confirmation, but may include attending orientation or other method. Institutional practice determines how these are measured.

e. Confirm admitted student starts, the students who report for the first day of class and therefore begin to incur tuition charges. f. Strengthen student persistence, the students who complete the first semester, first year, and beyond. g. Support through graduation, the students who complete a degree of study.

III. Measure Your Key Performance Indicators

Provide appropriate data to measure your KPIs and analyze the results with regard to goals (planned vs. actual). Guidelines for Submission: This assignment should be a four- to seven-page Microsoft Word document with double spacing, 12-point Times New Roman font, one-inch margins, and compliance with APA style.

Critical Elements Proficient (100%) Needs Improvement (75%) Not Evident (0%) Value

Institutional Goals Creates aligned, cogent objectives for the provided goals that clearly delineate the plan

Creates objectives for the provided goals but they are not aligned or they do not clearly delineate the plan

Does not create objectives for the provided goals

10

KPIs: Leads Identifies the leads KPIs and how they will be analyzed

Identifies the leads but not how they will be analyzed, or they are cursory or inaccurate

Does not identify the leads KPIs 10

KPIs: Prospective Candidate Students

Identifies the prospective candidate students KPIs and how they will be analyzed

Identifies the prospective candidate students KPIs but not how they will be analyzed, or they are cursory or inaccurate

Does not identify the prospective candidate student KPIs

10

KPIs: Interested Candidate Students

Identifies the interested candidate students KPIs and how they will be analyzed

Identifies the interested candidate students KPIs but not how they will be analyzed, or they are cursory or inaccurate

Does not identify the interested candidate students KPIs

10

KPIs: Enrolled Candidate Students

Identifies the enrolled candidate students KPIs and how they will be analyzed

Identifies the enrolled candidate students KPIs but not how they will be analyzed, or they are cursory or inaccurate

Does not identify the enrolled candidate students KPIs

10

KPIs: Admitted Students Identifies the admitted students KPIs and how they will be analyzed

Identifies the admitted students KPIs but not how they will be analyzed, or they are cursory or inaccurate

Does not identify the admitted students KPIs

10

KPIs: Student Persistence Identifies the metrics for the student persistence KPIs and how they will be analyzed

Identifies the metrics for the student persistence KPIs but not how they will be analyzed, or they are cursory or inaccurate

Does not identify the metrics for the student persistence KPIs

10

KPIs: Graduation Identifies the metrics for the graduation KPIs and how they will be analyzed

Identifies the metrics for the graduation KPIs but not how they will be analyzed, or they are cursory or inaccurate

Does not identify the metrics for the graduation KPIs

10

Measuring KPIs Provides appropriate data to measure the KPIs

Provides some data, but not sufficient to measure the KPIs

Does not provide data to measure the KPIs

10

Articulation of Response Submission has no major errors related to citations, grammar, spelling, or syntax

Submission has major errors related to citations, grammar, spelling, or syntax that negatively impact readability and articulation of main ideas

Submission has critical errors related to citations, grammar, spelling, or syntax that prevent understanding of ideas

10

Earned Total 100%