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Predict enrollment spikes and declines using state and federal employment data
Author(s) -
Sutton Halley
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
recruiting and retaining adult learners
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2155-6458
pISSN - 2155-644X
DOI - 10.1002/nsr.30179
Subject(s) - revenue , state (computer science) , institution , plan (archaeology) , san joaquin , political science , higher education , public administration , business , economics , finance , economic growth , computer science , history , law , algorithm , soil science , environmental science , archaeology
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA — What metrics do you use to accurately plan for and predict the ebbs and flows of adult student enrollment your institution will see, years into the future? At the Society for College and University Planning annual conference, Matt Wetstein, assistant superintendent and vice president of instruction and planning at San Joaquin Delta College in California, shared the information‐gathering procedures he used to analyze data regarding the economic impact on enrollment numbers to more accurately predict enrollment declines and surges. “Conventional wisdom tells us that state higher education enrollments are driven by the state revenue economy,” Wetstein said. “We wanted to figure out if that was true and what that meant for our institution.” Read on to learn how to forecast your institutional enrollment so as to ensure accurate expectations for your administrative leadership teams.