Full Academic Year Registration – Ready Campaign

What’s a Wildly Important Goal (aka WIG) if you can’t make it a bit challenging. Well for Northwest Vista College’s Student Development team, they knocked their goal out the field with their campaign of helping current students register for the spring semester. 

Not only did the team smash their goal of reaching 3,500 students from an initial 3,ooo, they also surpassed their previous year’s goal by 15 percent. 

The team was able to get to their target by strategically reaching 225 students per week, which included not just SDEV students, but Students with Disabilities, Veterans Centers and Career/Experiential Learning students.  

The team also had a strategy of:

• Working with SDEV/EDUC faculty to schedule and execute registration labs for all fall to fall and hybrid sections; culminating lab on November 17 for online/remote 

• Conducting weekly team and individual assignments such as specific sections to outreach

• Holding weekly registration labs for sections with same meeting pattern

• Organizing staffing for registration events

• Preparing students for scheduled registration labs as well as other enrollment initiatives (stop, drop, enroll, etc.)

In the end, their campaign also impacted SDEV/EDUC students in which enrollment increased by almost 1,700.

Student Development Director Gary Bowling said “it is so wonderful to see that the majority of students in most of our 161 fall sections were enrolled in spring classes. Many sections had 26 out of 28 students registered for spring. Thank you all so much for your hard work and teamwork! We have such an amazing department and team.”

The work that the Student Development team did will now set a precedent for future efforts.