Advantages of Participating in The Wheel for Students and Institutions
Convenience, affordability, and fit —
- Within a consortium, students take courses through their Home school, registered for equivalent courses on the Home school schedule.
- Consortium courses are within students’ regular Home school course load and eligible for Financial Aid packaging.
- The Wheel courses are taught by faculty at other YWMC member schools who understand the typical needs of low-income students.
- Enrolled students are charged tuition within the Home school structure and the Home school pays the Consortium just $500 per course per student.
Retention and completion —
- Expanded course offerings enable timely completion — summer and winter terms; 8-week regular-semester terms; needed courses that typically run in off-year rotation at the Home school; catch-up for DWF repeats; options for schedule conflicts due to work, athletic season travel.
- Help student-athletes maintain season eligibility.
- Expedite completion of Commencement “walkers.”
- Help students access pre-reqs for graduate and other programs, like RN to BSN, to conditionally admit and matriculate every candidate.
- Give students a second chance and softer landing when they are put on academic probation or dismissal.
Recovery —
- Keep “stop-out” students enrolled.
- Bring back “dropped out” students to complete.
Academic efficiency and quality —
- Share faculty expertise.
- Provide broader course offerings without adding sections or faculty (consider concentrations, minors, consortial programs, electives).
- Avoid running under-enrolled course sections and Directed Independent Study sections for better student learning experiences and institutional efficiency.
- Bolster under-enrolled majors, concentrations through consortial courses or collaborative programming.
Revenue opportunities —
- Offer online course options that meet YWMC members’ academic planning needs.
- Collaborate with other YWMC member academic planners to offer a rotation of online courses that encourage predicted enrollment.
- Increase annual tuition revenue by using consortium courses to retain students and keep “recovery” courses in-house.
For more information on how to participate go to https://www.acadeum.com/consortia/ywm or contact Program Manager Ann Landis (YWMC) at Enable JavaScript to view protected content. or Sandra Via at Enable JavaScript to view protected content..