The article offers tips from Michael Cannon, dean of the Division of Enrollment Services at Eastern Oregon University, on how to retain online students. Cannon recommends to offer online advising services to enhance the relationship of the students and their advisors. He stresses that students should be aware of the degree requirements needed in taking the programs.
The article provides information on the Oregon Student Assistance Commission (OSAC), a state agency that works to assist students by finding scholarship donors for them. The agency manages 370 privately funded scholarships and administers $4 million in scholarships each year. Scholarship donors have an option to either provide a certain amount of money each year or establish an endowment to be used for scholarships. OSAC is funded through a percentage of the scholarship amount agreed to under a contract.
LANE Community College (Eugene, Or.), UNIVERSITY & college employees, SCHOOL enrollment
Abstract
The article presents strategies for doing multiple tasks, offered by Helen Barker Garrett, director of enrollment services and registrar of Lane Community College. She advises leaders to identify the strengths of each staff members to appropriately assign new task that may arise in the future. She recommends them to urge their staff members to do more than they presently do. She also suggests leaders to give some time to talk and connect with their staff.
Published
2006
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