FOCUS: SCHEDULING

At CLARUS Corporation, we understand the class schedule is an extremely important component of the College, with its impact not only on the College’s fiscal health, but a major impact on current and potential student enrollments.

Join Us For Our 5th Annual Workshop Retreat June 9 And 10, 2010

In Steamboat Springs, Colorado

Overview

When enrollments are up, being able to plan an efficient and effective class schedule is a must. But for many community colleges, the scheduling process is at best, inefficient, and at worst, a nightmare. Room shortages at key times, faculty schedules not meeting the needs of students, disputes among programs needing short-term space, and students trying to solve class time conflicts for required courses are serious issues on many campuses. In today’s market, community colleges are being asked to meet increased student demand for classes with substantially reduced resources. This hands-on workshop will provide participants an opportunity to put their class schedule data under a microscope and to evaluate it for both efficiency and effectiveness. Using their own college’s data, the participants are guaranteed to find solutions to current space and class delivery issues, and leave with solutions to scheduling challenges.

Who Should Attend

This seminar is a must for your chief academic officer and chief scheduling staff member. But to make the biggest impact on your college, bring your entire team. Key members for making this workshop a success include those key people involved in your class schedule development – leaders in your faculty, department chairs, deans, curriculum specialists, schedulers, and even your administrative assistants.

Why You Should Attend

As a community college academic officer, you know what it’s like to make critical program, curriculum, and personnel decisions based on little or no information. In this workshop, using your own data, you will be able to document the data you need for planning, decision making, and instructional delivery essential to college – and student – success. Not only will you be able to identify issues, but also define solutions to these scheduling concerns:

• Explore the many issues impacting schedule development and learn how to streamline development at your college

• Review best practices for determining when to cancel classes, and provide tools eliminate those sections which cancel from the schedule in the first place

• Identify common issues impacting decreased space utilization at your college and find “new” rooms at your campus

• Evaluate your current curriculum for accessibility when scheduling for day, evening, weekend, and online students

• Understand how to change the culture of your organization to embrace new schedule development methodologies and actually implement them  

To view a complete agenda for the scheduling workshop, click here.

Seminar Leaders

Kathi Swanson, Ph.D. – President, CLARUS Corporation

Dr. Kathi Swanson is a popular and highly rated speaker who has made numerous presentations at ACCCA, AACC, Chair Academy , NCIA, and NCMPR district and national conferences. Kathi has served as president of CLARUS Corporation, the first firm to focus exclusively on community colleges, since its inception in 1988.

Craig Justice, Ph.D. – Vice President of Instruction, Irvine Valley College

Dr. Craig Justice has over 35 years of experience in California community colleges, specializing in strategies for student retention and in strategies for optimal class scheduling designed to reach enrollment management targets. He has published in curriculum development, has participated in software development for scheduling and enrollment management, and has spoken at ACCCA, AACC, NCIA, the Chair Academy, and Academic Senate of CCC plenary sessions, among others. In April, 2008 he presented “Keeping New Students: Boosting Enrollment through Retention” in a webinar for Magna Publications.

See What Attendees Are Saying

See what the attendees at the previous CLARUS Corporation workshops have to say (click here)

Enroll Today!

Seats are limited so register today. Registration fee per person is $795, paid prior to May 10, 2010. After May 10, 2010, registration fee per person increases to $895. 

Discounts are available for multiple attendees from a college (15% per person off registration after first college registration).

or call 1.800.896.7431 Ext. 104 for more information.

Attend this workshop and learn the secrets of retention success.  

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Summer in Steamboat Springs means cool melted snow, crisp fresh air, and flowers in full bloom. Break away for two info-packed days full of sunshine and fun among friends.

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