While schools across the country have faced declines in enrollment during the pandemic, a challenge often referred to as the “Great Student Resignation,” three campus leaders in Odessa on Thursday said their outlying success with retention is largely due to collaboration and meeting students where they are.
“For us, that human touch, you know, is really crucial for us,” Woodley said at the event. “To be able to get out in the community and spend time at the high schools and spend time at the community college … the overall brand awareness of the university and the advertising and the social media strategies have been crucial, too.”below enrollment in the state’s four-year universities for the first time since the 1990s.
“Our team understands that we’re different,” Williams said. “So we approach the work differently from others. Not everyone gets that; not everyone wants to do it the Odessa College way. … We’ve been very effective. We love the work, and we’re going to continue to pursue it in this way. And we help others by sharing what we do.”
“I would really attribute some of that to the colleagues that are on either side of me today,” Muri said. “That in which we work as a school system very collaboratively, the relationship that we have. … We have to create that culture within our elementary and middle schools and high schools that, again, feed these two institutions. And it’s also, partnering with both of these individuals, we have programs in place today that allow our students to become a part of them while they are with us.
My daughter's made very clear that she refuses to attend college in any state that opposes abortion rights or discriminates against LGBTQ+ people.
With medieval attacks on AbortionRights & ReproductiveHealth in general. With an an 'all you can eat' LethalWeapons buffet & PermitlessCarry, it's clear WHY young people are staying away from Texas. And those of us not that young? We live in Terror of GregAbbott_TX
Yeah cuz prices are over inflated and we don't like how they're teaching. I can learn as much if not more from a private library and internet connection. Stop giving schools a blank check, make them compete.
One wonders what impact of repressive womens rights laws will have on out of state students.
And now they will see even less enrollment cause what parent in their right mind would send their daughter to college in TX where she’s a second class citizen? No thanks..
marknyt Students are as unnerved as everyone else by the hard turn to the far right in Texas.
Maybe they want to have sex without risking a homicide charge or death…just a thought.
Shouldn't they have expected this to happen with population changes? Gen Z is smaller than the millennial generation. How much is *the great resignation' vs smaller high school graduating classes?
How about people cant afford college anymore. Especially when gas is $4.35+ a gallon.
Drama
Texas GovAbbott promised he would not protect students and would fight AGAINST common sense protections. I doubt the students will ever come back.
Maybe the enrollment numbers are low because young people recognize how badly Texas sucks right now and they want no part of it?
Tuition and housing are unaffordable. Tuition has skyrocketed since tuition deregulation in 2005. Renting an apartment? Crazy expensive for a full time student. Bring down tuition, expand student housing& make it affordable.
I'm recommending to EVERY single smart student I know that they attend college outside TX (and other shithole states). Working on setting up a scholarship fund to help them afford tuition is less fascistic climes.
moontiger5735 Women have no rights in Texas! Who in their right mind would send their children to Texas?
Texas is making itself into a hateful mess and no parent wants to send their children to a state that doesn't value their safety or body autonomy.
And the new rules of the Abbott-Patrick-Paxton regime re: women and LGBTQ+ people are going to have more people - staff and students alike - fleeing for the exits ASAP to whatever degree they're able to afford. But Abbott-Patrick-Paxton consider that a feature, not a bug. 😡
marknyt Wow, University leaders saying the top priority is giving them more money, that is a massive conflict of interest
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