Understanding Enrollment Management Targets

Example 1 - One Detail

Suppose that the PeopleSoft University College of Engineering is concerned about enrolling more women. You want to conduct a recruiting effort to target women for the 2005 academic year. You might consider setting up the following enrollment management target to track your efforts. The following table shows a detail enrollment management target.

Example 2 - Two or More Details (a Group)

Now, suppose that you want to break this down from the 2005 Academic Year into targets for each term, Fall and Spring. This is the place to introduce the idea of a group enrollment management target. In this case, you set up two detail enrollment management targets and join them as a group to form one group enrollment management target. Instead of one detail with a cohort for the entire academic year of 2005 (Example #1), now you have two detail targets defined; one with a cohort for each term and a target of 100 (Example #2). You can combine two or more details into one group enrollment target.

Example 3 - More Details

The College of Engineering consists of four different academic programs: Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, and Civil Engineering. In this example, you want each program to set its own targets, not just one overall target for the entire College of Engineering. Assume that you are setting the target for the entire 2005 Academic Year, and not by term this time. You can set up a group of four detail enrollment management targets, one for each program as follows:

Example 4 - Complex Details

To add more complexity, suppose that the College of Engineering is concerned not only with enrolling more women, but also with enrolling other underrepresented minorities as well: African Americans, Native Americans, and Latinos. You want to set up enrollment management targets for all women and underrepresented minorities for the 2005 Academic Year for each of the four academic programs within the College of Engineering. That is 16 different enrollment management target details. Here is one way that you could set this up:

In the preceding example, a group enrollment target that you define might consist of all 16 of the detail targets, but it does not have to. You can, for example, set up a group of the horizontal detail targets in the above table, or a group of the vertical detail targets. It all depends on what you want to do with the information, and how you want to access it and report on it. There are several possible ways to use the enrollment management targets as tools in your recruiting efforts.