Virtual Enrollment Services: Meeting Students Where They Are

Lauren Cash, Manager of Enrollment Services and Aron Dixon, Call Center Lead

The way students are accessing higher education resources is changing rapidly. Learn how our student services department has collaborated to support students virtually during this unprecedented time.

Success Strategies for FTIC Student Persistence in a College Success Course

Carol Weller, Adjunct Faculty EDUC

Student success courses (SSC) have emerged as a promising strategy to increase the retention and successful completion rates of community college students (Kimbark, Peters, & Richardson, 2016). Specifically, enrollment in and successful completion of a CSC is associated with the chances of students persisting from fall to spring and retention from fall to fall (Zeidenberg, Jenkins, & Calcagno (2007).

This presentation will include suggestions for resources and strategies to improve the Student Learning Outcomes (SLOs) that are tracked every semester. The focus will be on student engagement in and completion of the academic planning and enrollment process. How these particular SLOs connect with the EDUC 1300 course objectives and topics will be discussed. These success strategies can be applied in fully-online, hybrid, and face to face environments.

Transitioning Testing Services to Virtual- How We Rearrange Our Testing Center to Meet Student and Campus Needs

Christie Ussery, Testing Center Lead

In this session you will learn how the Testing Center moved passed the current challenges of  transitioning to a virtual platform and how they started creating processes and organizing their team ahead of the curve. 

Crunching the Numbers: How to Create an Enrollment Plan through Marketing & Outreach

Tristyn Davis, Director of Admissions & Outreach, and Mercedes Taylor, Marketing Coordinator

In this session you will learn how Admissions/Outreach and MarCom worked together to create a comprehensive enrollment marketing plan.  You will see examples of how information was gathered, and sorted as well as samples of emails and text that were sent. 

Tracking and Predicting LSC Student's Performance Using Power BI Report

Jae Jung, Senior Analyst

Persistence and Retention:The Student Life Factor

Karen Jones, Manager of Student Life, Dan Mitsven, Director of Student Life, Kelsey Jackson, Manager of Student Activities, and Shannon Marino, Director of Student Life

In this session, we will look at the impact that Student Life Events, Activities, and Registered Student Organizations have, and how this has contributed to the persistence and retention of students at the Lone Star College System.

Data and Employee Engagement - Is that a Thing?

Jessica Granger, Manager of Organizational Development and Melissa Hinshaw, Director of Organizational Development

When it comes to data, the person behind the numbers can sometimes get lost. Join us for an interactive session as we discuss data, people, and ways we use both to help increase employee engagement during a time where everyone needs to feel connected.

Using Technology to Make Your Life Easier: Creating Fillable Forms, Online Forms, and Using Excel Formulas to Analyze Data

Shannon Oliver, Manager of School Partnerships & Outreach

In this session we will touch on several different tools that you can use to make your everyday life in data collection easier.  Specifically, how to create fillable forms to eliminate handwritten forms with printing and re-scanning, how to create an online form to collect data, how to electronically fill a PDF automatically from an online form and how to use Excel formulas to compare data.

Creating a Seamless New Student Experience: Breaking Down Registration Barriers Through Collaboration

Christopher Dudley, Dean at Houston North Fairbanks, LaTia Hughes, Manager of Admissions & Records, and Raymond Craft, Director of Academic Partnerships

There are many barriers to the new student enrollment process. LSC-Houston North looked for ways to provide hands-on support and programs to help new students successfully move through the registration process. Their new student programs and support were tailored to reach emerging populations within the LSC-Houston North service area. The session will include examples of how they utilized their uniquely designed collaborative structure and culture to improve new student outcomes.