The Enrollment Development and Educational Outreach Division Overview

The Enrollment Development and Educational Outreach Division is responsible for providing leadership in enrollment development and educational outreach by implementing comprehensive strategies to improve student retention, academic excellence, and learning while employing the use of data-driven, evidence-based enrollment practices.  The division will work to inspire others within our community to work collaboratively in achieving the university’s enrollment and retention goals.  

Guiding Principles

1. Recruiting, admitting, retaining, and graduating a diverse learner population with equitable outcomes as the goal
2. Placing learners’ welfare ahead of other institutional goals by advocating for their needs
3. Involving cross-divisional stakeholders from across the institution to think through a lens of transformation to ensure optimal results
4. Utilizing asset-based, abundance thinking, about our learners and the varied gifts and talents they bring
5. Supporting all learners in ways that honor and respect their diverse and multiple social identities
6. Delivering intrusive, inclusive, and intentional education and experiences
7. Investing in the ongoing learning and development of faculty and staff as they seek to serve learners, recognizing their invaluable influence
8. Providing comprehensive and high-quality academic advising and coaching in a supportive learning environment
9. Designing course sequencing and course availability within our curriculum to meet the needs of our traditional, non-traditional/adult, and graduate learners
10. Using systemically-gathered data to inform our decision making
11. Seeing the local, state and global community as valued partners in providing educational opportunities for our learners
12. Working to be a learner-ready institution, recognizing and acknowledging our faculty and staff's role in understanding and supporting our learners