Prebuilt and Block SchedulesUniversity of Hawai‘i

Joanne ItanoGary Rodwell

GPS Policy InstituteCOMPLETE COLLEGE AMERICA

June 25, 2014Atlanta, GA

“55% of Hawai‘i’s working age adults to have a 2- or 4-year college degree by the year 2025.”

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CumulativeDegree Gap:56,803 degree holders

Source: NCHEMS & U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey, 1-year estimates, 2006 to 2012

Evolution of Our Strategies

Program Sheets

Academic Maps

Academic Maps with Milestones

Created Prebuilt/Blo

ck Schedules

Drove Course

Scheduling

Students “on track”for the first semester

Outcome of Our Strategies

Great for the first semester, then what?

Scheduling inefficiencies

Accommodating the “off track” students

Limited resources (academic advising)

Issues Discovered Along the Journey

We needed an intelligent technology platform that

could take into account all these factors

Ironically, we are currently capable of keeping students on track to graduation

We do it for our student athletes:

1) Student athlete to advisor ratio is about 50:12) NCAA Eligibility “stay on track = play”

Applying the above to the 60,000 UH students with a current student to advisor ratio of 450:1 would mean:

800 more advisors = additional $62,000,000 per year

The Discovery Process

Start simple (only include first-time, incoming freshmen)

Incorporate tacit knowledge of advisors

First Rendition of Platform “Pre-registration for Incoming Freshmen”

Pre-registration Proof of Concept

It works!

And it works very well, however, only for incoming freshmen for their first semester

Mahalo!Joanne Itano itano@hawaii.edu

Gary Rodwell rodwell@hawaii.edu