- Initiate incentives for departments to spend under budget
- Ask every department to cut costs minimally
- Close departmental computer labs that are under-used; consolidate with other labs
- Increase use of television for teaching courses to large numbers of students
- Restrict the number of students who can enroll in high-cost programs
- Encourage students to take larger number of units at one time to reduce administrative costs
- Screen and place students in appropriate course sequences
- Institute special fee for repetition of classes
- Offer more physical education courses through continuing education on a higher fee basis
- Consolidate courses which drop below minimum enrollment, even at mid-semester
- Do not re-offer courses which have sharp drop-off in enrollment after fourth week
- Review previous semester’s ending enrollments, by class, to determine viability to re-offer course
- Do not offer courses on Friday if course attendance is typically low
- Establish zero-based budgets tied to enrollment for programs wherever possible
- Consolidate similar programs
- Consolidate some department chair positions
- Develop or augment program in business personal computing and office technology (e.g., word processing, Excel, or PowerPoint)
- Expand program of computer classes at all levels
- Use cafeteria to teach classes in culinary skills
- Consolidate occupational and vocational programs and departments around relevant technical training themes
- Eliminate occupational and vocational programs in fields with low prospects for employment of graduates
- Share vocational education with (or transfer them to) local vocational colleges and area community colleges
- Track success rates of Basic Skills and Development Education students into regular credit courses
- Limit facilities used for summer school
- Offer no weekend classes for summer school
- Terminate summer school offerings if they do not at least break even
Good education is the essential foundation of a strong democracy.
- Barbara Bush
Instruction, classes, and programs are key factors for student recruitment and retention. Careful enrollment management can result in better use of faculty time, generate revenues for the institution, and ensure students have access to the courses they need and want.
ReplyDeleteThe following ideas were part of an email (October 3, 2009) from the Community College League of California (prepared by Scott Lay, President and Chief Executive Officer, Orange Coast College '94):
ReplyDelete-- Significantly limit repeatability in credit basic skills classes and shift repeating students to noncredit or adult ed courses after multiple unsuccessful attempts
-- Implement degree auditing software that can strengthen guidance and better measure student outcomes
-- Use degree auditing software to identify successful pathways/course sequences
-- Implement common-course numbering in all three segments for basic general education
-- Support the CSU-East Bay/CCC Enhanced Transfer Pilot Project, which would tie online course availability, articulation agreements and individual students' E-Transcripts
-- Better and more consistent CCC-CSU articulation agreements and expanded transfer admission guarantees