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Student-Friendly Schedule Building Addressing Student Planning and Success Initiatives

Student-Friendly Schedule Building Addressing Student Planning and Success Initiatives. Presented by Tom Shaver Founder & CEO, Ad Astra. Industry Challenge - Improve Student Outcomes w/ Fewer Resources.

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Student-Friendly Schedule Building Addressing Student Planning and Success Initiatives

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  1. Student-Friendly Schedule Building Addressing Student Planning and Success Initiatives Presented by Tom Shaver Founder & CEO, Ad Astra

  2. Industry Challenge -Improve Student Outcomes w/ Fewer Resources • Enrollment has nearly doubled since 1970, yet the completion (attainment) rate remains flat • Approximately 40% of adults aged 25-34 have a degree • Lumina Foundation: "The United States is one of only two nations in which the current generation has attained less education than their parents' generation.” • Degree completion rates • 2-yr. degrees (within 6 years): 38% • 4-year degrees (within 4 years): 53% • 4-yr. degrees (within 6 years): 58% • Retention rates (between 1st and 2nd yr): 65.7%

  3. Our Student Success Approach • Embrace the Challenge • Focus on what the Institution can Control/Influence • Allocation of Key Academic Resources • Student Access to Required Courses • Student Completion Planning • Acknowledge Complexity: Decision-Support Tools are needed to effectively allocation of Faculty and Space to meet Students’ Needs • Continuous Improvement: Evolution, not Revolution

  4. Change Management • Create a Schedule Review Team • Reviews data as a proxy for all academic units • Suggests potential changes to academic units • Defers granular decisions (candidates) to academic units • Focus on Data: measurable Success Drivers that influence high-level goal attainment • Depending on institutional priorities, select from 20 key metrics that we have used to track scheduling effectiveness • Establish Benchmarks for each campus/academic unit • Establish Goals based on progress needed in success drivers to achieve high-level outcomes • Track Progress by measuring improvement and requiring minimum effectiveness levels (scheduling policy)

  5. Solutions State of the Union • Analytics: focus, to date, on analysis of student demand for course seats and the enrollment capacity of academic space • Platinum Analytics: alignment of offerings to demand, highlighted by “change candidates” in tentative schedules • Strategic Checkup: assessment of baseline effectiveness of both course offerings and space management processes • Implementation: deploy software as a service • Reduces or eliminates IT resource impact • Ad Astra participates in the ongoing review of findings

  6. Key 2012 Enhancements • Analytics: • Dashboards (demo) • Predictive Program Analysis (demo) • Simulated Registration • Student/Advisor Academic Planner (demo) • Section File Snapshots (registration velocity, cancellation tracking, meeting time/room change tracking, attrition, etc.) • Student Velocity Tracking and Workflow/Alerts • Course Offering Sandbox with Academic Scheduling Policy Setting/Tracking

  7. Questions?Tom Shavertshaver@aais.com913-652-4110

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