Educators seek out opportunities for leadership to support student empowerment and success and to improve teaching and learning.
"Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others."
~ Jack Welch
"Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others."
~ Jack Welch
ARTIFACTS
The following artifacts, with an accompanying rationale, can be found on this page:
- Doodle Calendar because it represents my leadership in preparing a schedule for student semester final study sessions.
- What Can You Do with a Degree from Calhoun? and Calhoun CTE Presentations because it shows my initiative in recruiting and maintaining student enrollment in our program.
- Special Services Guide for Welding because I developed this in-depth guide for use with Special Needs students within our department and lab.
- A short statement I have written about the need for instructors to recruit and encourage program enrollment.
According to the National Clearinghouse Research Center, college enrollment has been on a decline for the past few years. Several reasons are given for the decline such as: lingering effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, student burnout, and the need and value of a two- or four-year degree in the current job market. Projectionists caution that the falling stock market could lead to further enrollment drops for the Fall 2022 semester. For Spring 2022, the overall U.S. college enrollment decreased by 4.1% as compared to Spring 2021. Public two-year institutions have shown a much higher decline than public four-year institutions with the two-years having a 7.8% decline in the year following the 2020 pandemic shutdowns. Private institutions show the least amount of enrollment slides with for-profits experiencing a 0.2% decline. Michigan, California, and Vermont, respectively, showed the largest statewide decreases. However, prestigious public and private universities are not seeing these types of declines, and the number of first-time freshmen students increased by 4.2%. As college instructors, we should be concerned that continuous enrollment decreases can have a substantial impact on our already limited financial resources. Some of the smaller colleges may not be able to survive. We must take on leadership roles and get out to those College and Career Days to promote our programs and fields of study. Otherwise, we risk becoming dinosaurs.
RESOURCES