Description ASSIGNMENT#1 HEA 610 Overview Higher education is at a crossroads. There are tremendo ...
Description ASSIGNMENT#1 HEA 610 Overview Higher education is at a crossroads. There are tremendous forces of change that are pulling at the heartstrings of how higher education works, who has access to it, who pays for it, and how it is valued in the workplace. The forces for change can come from both the external and internal environments. As Bontrager, Ingersoll, and Ingersoll explain in Strategic Enrollment Management, “Because institutions react to these forces, it is critical to have a firm grasp on the nature of the forces in order to make appropriate adaptations.” This paper will examine these forces, as defined in policy issues paper by the American First Policy Institute, with an emphasis on what these changes mean at the campus level. Nearly all of these policy issues impact the strategic enrollment plan. Prompt Submit a short paper on higher education policy. Review the 25 State Higher Education Policy Priorities of The America First Agenda. Select one policy issue and do additional research to find at least two articles from publications that focus on higher education and explore how the institutions are addressing the issue. Specifically, the following critical elements must be addressed: Current Issue. Summarize the policy issue facing colleges and universities. Reflect on why this issue is important in the broader context of education policy. Impact on Institution. Explain how this issue impacts your chosen institution, with special consideration of the impact on strategic enrollment planning and resources. Implications for the Future. Describe how this issue has implications across your institution. How do you see your institution (and particularly enrollment management) being changed by this issue in 10 or 20 years? What to Submit This short paper should follow these formatting guidelines: 3–5 pages in length with double spacing, 12-point Times New Roman font, one-inch margins, and APA-style citations. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!aSSIGNMENT #2 HEA 540 WEEK 7 While this module’s discussion is about how to communicate information about evaluating recommendations, this third milestone is about how to get the evaluation done. Prompt In this milestone, you will determine a plan for evaluating the success of your recommendations once they are implemented for the program you chose in Milestone One. This evaluation plan will include a process for measuring success, including a discussion of how the recommendations will foster continuous improvement and an explanation, with specific examples, of how you would mitigate institutional challenges. Specifically, the following critical elements must be addressed: Outline the process by which you will measure the success of your recommendations. In other words, what are the steps you will need to take to measure the success of your recommendations, and what further information or indicators will you need to find and verify? Be sure to include appropriate visuals (e.g. flowcharts, pie charts) to illustrate the time sequence. Discuss how the evaluation of your recommendations will foster continuous improvement within the academic program. What ongoing processes will be in place? How will adjustments be identified and made? Explain how these continuous improvement processes address institutional challenges. How do they respond to the ever-changing academic environment? Use specific examples to support your explanation. What to Submit Your paper should be submitted as a Microsoft Word document of at least 5 pages (including title and reference pages) with headings, double spacing, 12-point Times New Roman font, one-inch margins, and citations in APA format.
