Feedback from Advising

Red Rocks Community College Retention Task Team
Recommendation	Learning Communities Currently, we offer few Learning Community options and they are difficult to fill because of students’ lack of familiarity and difficulty with online registration.  Improved marketing and registration efforts are necessary in order for fewer learning communities to cancel or detach and run separately. For example, in considering Degrees with Designation and AA/AS requirements it would be essential to market the co-req courses in the following introductory classes in hopes to fill these potential/proposed learning communities: DEGREE                     ADVERTISE IN:                     LEARNING COMMUNITY  AA- BUS:                         BUS115                                     BUS216/ECO201  AA- CRJ:                         CRJ110                                     CRJ125/SOC101  AA/AS:                           ENG121                                     ENG122/POS111        AA/AS                            ENG121                                     ENG122/GEO105 or 106  AA/AS PSY:                     PSY101                                     PSY102/PHI112  AA/AA PSY:                     PSY101                                     COM125/PSY226  AA PSY:                          PSY101                                     BIO105/PSY235  AA/AS                            ENG121                                     HIS208/ANT125                             Develop a way for learning communities to be clearly defined and linked in online registration – students are often confused by the required co-requisite as they were unaware that a class is linked with its designated co-requisite and give up registering for that specific section.
Responsible Department /	Instruction – appropriate department chairs and faculty Marketing
Time Line	For Fall 2014 classes – market spring 2014
Measurable    Outcomes	Full Learning Communities, fewer number of detached or canceled learning communities