Common Goal

Contributors: Zoe Barsness, Alireza Boloori, Gordon Craig, Rupinder Jindal, Jinlan Ni, Trish Zander, Brian Maina, Dayna Childs

• Mock interview training with high school students
• Wear purple in the Community – Milgard School of Business
• Board membership – nonprofit at state level
• Traveling discussions in community colleges/high schools, or meeting with parents, PTSA, YMCA, College Success Foundation, Metropolitan Development Council
• Inviting students, parents/grandparents to class
• 15-second videos – how to get them to website?
• Student stories from classroom – how to get them
• Alumni stars – how to get them
• Monthly calls – retention; academic alerts
• Quarterly meeting with faculty on CC
• Get alumni to engage for us
• Wear MSB, UWT outside of school
• Mock interviews
• Area churches, YMCA, Boys & Girls Clubs
• Invite CTE teachers, DECA for Financial literacy, business and marketing classes
• Monthly calls – identifying at-risk students
• Rocking MSB gear
• Invite teachers/principals and influencers to class
• Wear UWT/MSB outfits
• Board membership – not exclusive to the South Sound
• Traveling discussions or committees – PTAs/DECAs
• Mock Interviews
• Faculty engagement with community colleges
• Networking outside class
• Wear UWT/Milgard clothes outside
• Nonprofit boards more than just South Sound; Chinese Association of Mercer Island and Boy Scouts of America
• Traveling conversations
• Invite students to class as well as teachers
• Invite Alumni to retreat for a dialogue
• Web-media Ad board
• Traveling lectures – more about discussions
• Invite Advisers to class
• Wear UWT/UW jerseys (great starters)
• Mock Interviews
• Exit Interviews
• Meeting faculty at community colleges

Contributors: Marion Eberly, Nasir Haghighi, Stephen Norman, Eliza Zhang, Aubree Steffens, Kerry Barker, Michael Helser, Kevin Dugan

• Fun videos on Tik Tok
• Fresh Direct students visit high schools
• Share contacts for schools; who are the recruiters and faculty for various programs; share all
• MSB contacts and all 6 community schools and 26 high schools
• Connect with PTAs and DECAs
• CRM to engage in regular contact with students and families
• On social media – click bait internet ads to collect email contacts for marketing (e.g. “Fraud is easy and fun!”
• Bring a group of students to a class – partner with Boys & Girls Club
• Build a bridge so that first generation families have a network
• Retention – follow up on students who miss an assignment
• Shadow – allow students to come to UWT with a friend from a community college or high schools
• Have QR codes for programs and cards to hand out
• Retention – “Touch” in an appropriate way every student
• Retention – Engage high performing students in connecting with struggling students
• Direct Admit student go back to their high schools to talk about MSB
• Social engagement on student alumni posts
• Interview Alumni stars and the 15 second videos
• Direct Admit – help them visualize their future. Connect early
• Shadow a current student
• Retention – let students know they should/can contact professors
• Posters in the classroom
• Alumni engage for us
• Monthly emails to students (instead of calls)

Contributors: Marion Eberly, Nasir Haghighi, Stephen Norman, Eliza Zhang, Aubree Steffens, Kerry Barker, Michael Helser, Kevin Dugan

• Gather data on why we have lower retention compared to other UW campuses and provide corresponding solutions
• Create a website where we show our competitive advantages relative to our competitors (e.g., UW Bothell)
• Do we know why Tacoma is worse? First generation want to work.
• How do we do things different as a result?
• Use Data Analytics expertise
• Seattle has more applicants – lower bar, keep enrollment the same
• Bothell has housing. We don’t.
• Are we bound to our current population? Is that constraining us from growing?
• Kent, Auburn area is a coin toss on attending UWT, Bothell or Seattle
• Need-based scholarships more than merit scholarships
• We are a commuter school
• Potential students have to choose between (1) debt and school or (2) get a job and no debt
• We have to make it easy to apply and become students
• Schedules should be built around students and not faculty convenience – 2 days a week come to class/campus
• We need to look more closely at the dates
• 2 problems are separate: (1) Enrollment and (2) Retention
• Outreach/reach out to new students – Advertisement
• Retention: (1) know exactly who is struggling and (2) Instructor doesn’t know if the student drops out
• All current instructors can work together. Coordinated effort. Academic Alert/Contact Advisor
• We need to target students who are in trouble
• Some students may be close to graduation
• ALL ABOUT RELATIONSHIPS
• Come up with 5/10/20 students who we focus on each quarter
• Can we check Canvas activity level and prioritize outreach for those students who are not active
• Personal, handwritten notes to new students from a faculty member in their major
• We have the CBA. How can use our expertise to figure out what the data says about why we are losing or not attracting students?
• Invite students/parents to visit campus and facilities; we can use undergrad student volunteers to take the lead

Contributors: Shalini Jain, Gim Seow, Fei Leng, Karen Janz, Karen Janz, Ozge Boyraz, Cynthia DeHope, Janet De La Cruz 

• Workshops for HS teachers, e.g., analytics workshop
• Celebrating students every quarter – not necessarily on curricular success but can use other  criteria too such as contribution to community, overcoming a crisis, etc.
• 15-second videos by students
• Ask a particular HS’s alumni who are our students to talk to that HS students
• Involving alumni at community college events
• Exit interviews with graduating students to identify alumni “stars” who we can feature/utilize in various ways. Also put their data in a central repository perhaps with the success center.
• Inviting alumni to guide students on how to choose their major
• Invite community-based organizations’ leaders into the classroom besides teachers and principals
• Invite HS student advisors besides teachers and principals
• Can transfer students not submit just one application instead of two – one to UWT and one to MSB?
• Private space for students to interact with each other
• Better communication of “Husky” promise and Pathway to Success
• Role to activity matching – who does what? E.g., calling up students may not be best done by faculty.
• Get student role model. Let students perform the video.
• Share study experience on social media
• Alumni stars go to their high schools to promote MSB
• Interview with graduate students
• Alum panels for community colleges and high schools
• Invite community based organizations to classes
• Videos of the student experience
• Celebrating students; acknowledge them
• Connect students to their ages

Contributors: Arthur Jago, Evy Shankus, Arindam Tripathy, Luyu Wang, Jaime Core, Dayna Childs, Cynthia DeHope, Rachel Vaughn

• On campus culture: (1) parking (2) common spaces (3) class reunions
• Bring a “buddy” to class
• Introductions to high schools by having a lecture/agenda
• Value-added (cost/benefit) of actual stories
• Business Student Ambassadors (Milgard Gold)
• Husky Promise – communicate better
• Center engagement - counselors