Curriculum Management

• Define the core curriculum and ensure adequate funding for it as a program priority
• Exercise tighter administrative control of course offerings
• Eliminate course duplication within departments and across departments
• Have area educational institutions convene and plan on how to collaborate rather than duplicate efforts and offerings
• Change class enrollment minimums to department minimum
• Improve scheduling procedures so that departments with waiting lists can use under-used classrooms
• Rethink the optimal department size and curriculum components
• Establish break-even class size and cut classes below that size, unless the department has other classes with large enrollments to offset losses in small class settings
• Assign class size monitoring to a specific individual
• Eliminate courses with chronic low enrollments
• Ensure all courses are part of the curriculum continuum
• Offer more sequential classes
• Do cost-benefit analysis for special programs to determine whether enough students are being served
• Eliminate “gamesmanship” in course cancellations
• Enforce deadlines for dropping and adding courses
• Modify the computer system so that faculty can enter adds and drops directly into the system
• Train department chairs in enrollment management strategies and principles
• Have 25% of the administration teach at least one course per year
• Establish an education master planning committee to focus on long-range, strategic curriculum issues
• Improve quality of programs to attract more students
• Set up more distance education programs, telecourses, and video classes
• Upgrade the computer curriculum to reflect leading-edge technologies
• Develop financial model to determine optimal mix of course offerings
• Expand and aggressively market contract education opportunities for businesses
• Integrate contract education and continuing education courses into the regular curriculum
• Offer contract education and continuing education courses in international education
• Establish a formal marketing strategy for pursuing foreign students
• Offer or expand contract education and continuing education offerings, which generate a profit
• Promote use of new technology in contract education to strengthen programs
• Market business service programs to chambers of commerce and businesses
• Convert computer and other classes to continuing education courses with a fee
• Offer continuing education courses on American work environments and expectations to meet needs of recent immigrants
• Increase number of continuing education courses and charge more often
• Design integrated educational experiences to attract foreign students willing to pay higher tuitions for that learning feature

The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.
- Chinese Proverb