Thursday, March 4, 2010

Embracing the Challenge or Accepting Your Fate? Streamlining an Advising Center on a Limited Budget

Presenters: Tyann Cherry and Dr. Michelle Loyet, Webster University

Event: NACADA Region VII Conference. March 11-13 Overland Park, KS

Abstract: We are in a recession, budgets continue to be slashed, new hiring is frozen but enrollments keep increasing. What to do? Picture an office faced with online enrollments increasing 40% yearly, rolling admissions, no workload management, and no website resources. What did they have going for them? A staff willing to do anything to dig out of the hole. This session is designed to provide real, workable, systems-driven solutions to advising centers like ours. We don’t have the resources to build Second Life Islands or double our staff. However what we DO have working for us is creativity, and a commitment our office to make the system work in the best way possible within the given parameters. We don’t just make lemonade; we build systems using pretty much a paperclip and some gum.

Presentation Materials:
Powerpoint of Presentation
Project Management Template
Sample Reporting Sheet

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