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Emergency Scholarships

• Created a scholarship program for students experiencing life emergencies that can impact enrollment
• Cross-campus representation on committee
• Since Fall 2019, funded over 250 applications, not including thousands of students receiving COVID relief funding

Financial Aid Leveraging

• Created 4-year renewable scholarships: Nanook Pledge (merit-based) and Nanook Commitment (needs-based)
• Fall 2021 increased in transfer, re-admit and first time freshman within top 10% of nation, surpassing enrollment goals within these populations

Housing Scholarships

• Implemented in Fall 2021
• Offered 2-year renewable scholarships to cover the cost of a room based on application review
• 19 students were selected for the first cohort and are required to offer some sort of programming for fellow residents

Military Tuition Rate

• Implemented in Spring 2021
• Active-duty military are eligible to pay a consolidated tuition and fee rate of $250 per credit, which is the maximum amount of tuition assistance provided by the Department of Defense

Search Engine Optimization

• Of the 264 phrases geo-targeted for Alaska, 254 are on page 1 of Google
• Of the 255 phrases geo-targeted for the US, 20 are on page 1 of Google
• Of the 255 phrases geo-targeted for Online, 47 are on page 1 of Google
• 510 keyword phrases being tracked - 199 Preferred Landing Pages were performing

Academic program pages with embedded ROI

• 140 pages developed since April 2019
• Fall 2021, 98 students matriculated from this source, up from 92 for Fall 2020

UAF homepage geared to prospective students

• Carousel regularly features content about virtual tour, rankings, academic programs and research, online degrees
• Prominent calls to action added for applying, requesting information and visiting campus
• Prominent sections added to promote rankings, academic programs

Enrollment Management Web Developer

• 140 pages live and 40 in development
• Fall 2021, 98 students matriculated from this source, up from 92 from Fall 2020
• Spring 2022 numbers are ahead of where they were this time last year

California Regional Recruiter

• Expanded recruitment presence of west coast markets
• Complementing recruiter in Washington
• Increased number of applications, admits and yield from this territory in Fall 2021

Dual Enrollment coordinator

• Created Alaska Advantage program in fall 2019, which is a virtual dual enrollment program offering students a discounted course cost 
• 144% increase from AY19-20 to AY20-21 among Alaska high school students  in the Advantage Program
• Created North Star Middle College fall 2020 with a cohort of 40 ����ix���� North Star Borough School District seniors

Outside of Alaska Marketing

• Climate Scholars Program digital marketing $20k
• Increased digital marketing spend to $50k
• Nanook Pledge promotion via digital and radio $25k
• Admissions videos from Ologie $10k

• Support SEP Spring traditional campaigns (Jan/Feb, Mar/Apr) - radio/TV in AK, WA, CA, streaming radio in TX $438.4k
• Digital Marketing extension into FY22 $50k
• FY20 Marketing
• FY21 Marketing

Application Fee Waivers

• Expanded fee waivers to include dual enrollment populations, Title 1 high schools, all military and veteran students.
• Implemented a proactive fee waiver internal process to facilitate processing and reviewing fee waiver requests.
• Approximately 700 waivers have been used for admissions applications (500 for 2021-2022 and 200 for 2022-2023 as of December 2021)

Virtual Tour

• Updated and modernized the virtual tour (last update was in 2015)
• Shifted focus of tour to highlight the student experience rather than physical buildings

Recruitment & Readiness Coordinator

• Facilitated a streamlined process for awarding and auditing the Nanook Pledge and implemented awarding/auditing processes for the Nanook Commitment.
• Managed the Finish Strong program for the 2020-21 academic year

Corporate Enrollment Support

• Conducting outreach and building enrollment partnerships with Alaska businesses, agencies, and organizations
• Partnering with and marketing to corporations that provide tuition benefits to the employees to drive corporate enrollment

Nanook Brotherhood Project

• Created endowed scholarship program, effective Fall 2020
• Speaker series last spring
• Currently working on cohort-based retention program for males of color students

Expansion of Living Learning Communities

• Increase access to LLCs by expanding current LLCs and adding new LLCs
• Added the Impact LLC in Fall 2020
• Both the Honors and Engineering LLC participation increased by 60% in Fall 2021

eSports Center

• Received $500K donation from GCI
• Holding camps, tournaments, and events for UAF students and potential students
• Most popular stop during campus Admissions tours
• Provided $1,000 scholarships to winners to the eSports High School State Championship

Honors College

• Changed name to Honors College (from Honors Program)
• Added full time, dedicated director
• Creation of Climate Scholars Program, which is experiencing rapid enrollment growth, an active endowed scholarship program, and now offers four interdisciplinary climate research intensives in Gustavus, ����ix����, Toolik, and Dillingham. See promotional video here: https://uaf.edu/honors/climate-scholars/  

Rural Student Services Indigenous Outreach and Wellness Coordinator

• Removes barriers and acts as liaison to accessing wellness services and activities both on campus and with Alaska Native community organization
• Creates space at the UAF Troth Yeddha’ Campus for cultural expression activities through student organizations/clubs in combination with increased wellness programming, some the accomplishments this fall include: 
• UAF student request for a trauma-informed, culturally knowledgeable Indigenous Counselor 
• 450 students have access to a culturally knowledgeable Indigenous Outreach & Wellness Coordinator who:

Establishing an official UAF Beading Club which has been meeting 4 hours a week throughout the fall semester

Collaborating with the Festival of Native Arts Club to organize a kuspuk making workshop that involved participation from 12 students, faculty, staff and even Provost Prakash

Leading a nature walk that identified local plants and medicines

Programming seven Positive Connection Nights (PCNs) at RSS which had an average attendance of 35 students each

Online BA/BS Biology

• Fall 2020, BA program created
• Summer 2021, BS program created
• Over 30 students enrolled in online Biology programs as of Fall 2021

Developmental Studies

• Renaming of Developmental Math (DEVM) courses to a mathematics (MATH) designator to remove negative connotation with “developmental”
• Creating of study skills class to accompany WRTG 110 course

Online Accounting

• Fall 2020, BBA in accounting created with program development funded by CBSM
• Spring 2020, creation of post baccalaureate certificate

GIS Certificate

• Developed the edX Professional GIS Certificate featuring three online courses and already (4 months) attracting more than 6,000 learners.
• Graduate Certificate in GIS still in development

Created campus advising coordinator

• Established advising council
  • Advising mission
  • Advisor standards
  • OnBoarding
• Created foundation training
• Monthly advisor information sessions
• Created Advisor Site for information, news, manual, etc.
• In collaboration with Admissions, created the advising welcome letter to new admits

Graduate Award Process Efficiencies (GAPE)

• Moved Graduate TA processing from Grad School to Financial Aid to ensure compliance and provide comprehensive award offers to students
• Changed campus timelines to provide information on funding to students earlier in the award cycle

Enrollment Management Communication

• Targeting students with no applications that submitted FAFSAs to UAF

Identifying dual enrollment students

• Consistent coding of high school students in Banner to ensure high school information is captured and students are captured for recruitment.

Course Approval Process

• Process Improvement Team (PIT Crew) was formed Spring 2019
• Policy and procedural changes to include both fall and spring catalog submission, improvement to approving occupational endorsements, focusing curriculum review to two committees down from five
• Enhanced tools and instructional guidance with best practices for course and program review, as well as additional support in CourseLeaf