Monthly Summary
During the month of January, outreach activities were carried out, including hosting a Student Info Session and meeting with stakeholders to discuss microcredentials. Work continued on refining existing microcredentials and creating new ones. Enrollment data shows progress, with 857 enrollments across nine microcredentials. The goal to increase opt-in enrollments was set for Spring/Summer 2024, with 640 enrollments for Spring sessions, surpassing the overall enrollment goal.
Highlights
Outreach
- Held a Student Info Session on Thursday, January 11th,
- Met with Jennifer Houlihan about offering a DFI Microcredential at the Army Software Factory during Spring Break. The HTML microcredential will be offered.
- Set up new student info sessions dates for Spring registration.
- Met with Courtney Ahrenholtz to offer a Web Builder Microcredential in her eCommerce Marketing course on January 30th.
Microcredentials
- Continuing to refine Word Processing and Presentation Software microcredentials to be ready for spring/first session on January 29th.
- Began developing the Problem Solving with AI microcredential.
- Added a second spreadsheets microcredential for spring/first session.
Data
- To date, with nine of 16 microcredentials launched, the combined co-curricular and opt-in sections had enrollments of 857. Co-curricular (in the classroom) had an unduplicated headcount of 362 enrollments while the Opt-in had a duplicated headcount of 495 enrollments since September 2022. The goal for the Provost’s Council was to increase the opt-in number by 260 additional learners for Spring/Summer 2024.
- Currently for Spring sessions one and two, there are 371 opt-in enrollments and 269 for co-curricular (640) which makes total enrollment since inception 1492.
- The goal for September 1, 2023 to August 31, 2024 (QEP goal) is 1410. The milestone for 2023-24 has been met and surpassed by 82 students with enrollment for spring session 2 and summer ongoing.