Post by flutiewasrejected on Nov 16, 2020 14:45:42 GMT -5
Some popular, some not, but wonder if any of these resonate with any of the folks on this board:
1) For the sake of all things holy, join Hockey East
2) What professors in the bio department have any ties to virology?
3) Will Holy Cross ever hire a CSO? We seemingly spend endless amounts on questionable student services / departments, we have a lobbyist (I think?), a dean for the environment, a dean for other dean's, is there a successful HC alum who would take a post outside of a CFO / Endowment role to help on College strategy that lives outside the purview of the BOT's?
4) Will HC ever have an honest discussion on reducing the overall number of sports programs?
5) What are KPI's we can use to judge the performance of the admissions department? Aside from the obvious signals like total application volume, acceptance rate, and yield...I promise you, there is more data and insights to be gleaned. Examples: measure of growth of non-US applications, measure of growth of non-NE / mid-atlantic applications, penetration of all US jesuit high schools and total % of applications, students by alumni status, students by household income, students referred via admission counselors, students referred via online platforms, word of mouth etc Where does our product sell that we aren't currently selling to?
6) Are we not capturing enough data (above?) How thorough is our surveying of each incoming class? Are we learning anything from the students who most recently made the decision to attend the College?
7) Alternative career paths--Are we providing a big picture of non-traditional routes? I hear similar stories, that follow the same type of trajectory--those students who "know" what they want to do (vocation) vs those who are where they are supposed to be: confused 22 year-olds
8) Don't let the bureaucratic largesse destroy HC identity: What are kids doing for fun on weekends? Seems to me like the sports programs have had sustained anemia while the off-campus community was (for right or wrong) plundered, while it was replaced with poor student programming--to be clear, I am not advocating for animal house, but what I am advocating for is a little fun and freedom mixed with containment strategy
9) Montserrat seems like it has been a major success--bringing students together in a seminar format is a major value prop of the school (strong professors, low prof / student ratio) and we should be waving the banner here. Post-covid, the sale of "we live together, learn together, are together" will be a winning one. If painful zoom call is analogous to large university with hundreds students per class, we need to be the antithesis of that
10) Are we double-downing on winning formulas of HC pre-med? HC pre-law? (For the vocational types)
11) Will Holy Cross draw a line in the sand of where we stand on either being: U Chicago model (it's about your ideas, not your identity) or U-Berkley (you will only have a say if you successfully tie your identity to victimized group X)
12) What are ways in which HC can engage with alums between 30-45? Seems like we educate then wait for you to get grey hairs to donate the big bucks...Can we better serve mid-career alumni? Or is this "not our job"?
That's it for now. If you have made it this far, thanks for the opportunity to brain dump.
1) For the sake of all things holy, join Hockey East
2) What professors in the bio department have any ties to virology?
- Can Holy Cross become an undergraduate center of excellence for epidemiological studies as well? The school of Fauci?
- How can Holy Cross better leverage its relationship with UMass Med School (led by HC alum, Michael Collins)?
- We have semester away programs for political science students (DC), students interested in business (NYC), but what about students interested in medical research?
- "Holy Cross Pre-Med Semester Away Program"
- Internship opportunities: DC (CDC, NIH, HHS, Georgetown Medical) Boston (Academic Hospitals, Pharma Companies, Startups, Research Community)
3) Will Holy Cross ever hire a CSO? We seemingly spend endless amounts on questionable student services / departments, we have a lobbyist (I think?), a dean for the environment, a dean for other dean's, is there a successful HC alum who would take a post outside of a CFO / Endowment role to help on College strategy that lives outside the purview of the BOT's?
4) Will HC ever have an honest discussion on reducing the overall number of sports programs?
5) What are KPI's we can use to judge the performance of the admissions department? Aside from the obvious signals like total application volume, acceptance rate, and yield...I promise you, there is more data and insights to be gleaned. Examples: measure of growth of non-US applications, measure of growth of non-NE / mid-atlantic applications, penetration of all US jesuit high schools and total % of applications, students by alumni status, students by household income, students referred via admission counselors, students referred via online platforms, word of mouth etc Where does our product sell that we aren't currently selling to?
6) Are we not capturing enough data (above?) How thorough is our surveying of each incoming class? Are we learning anything from the students who most recently made the decision to attend the College?
7) Alternative career paths--Are we providing a big picture of non-traditional routes? I hear similar stories, that follow the same type of trajectory--those students who "know" what they want to do (vocation) vs those who are where they are supposed to be: confused 22 year-olds
- (Vocation)--Teacher
- (Vocation)--Doctor
- (Vocation)--Lawyer
- (Vocation)--Accountant
- (Vocation)-- Banking
- (Confused)--Hanover Insurance?
- The reason I bring this up: a complaint I heard from recent grads was that they felt as though Holy Cross does a great job for students who know what they want to do, but less so for students who are hard-working & confused. The important complaint: HC sends the confused kids into incredibly tracked careers (insurance, wealth management) etc
- Are startups on campus?
- Concerning quote: "Why was I more stressed about my fall midterms than I was finding a job?"
8) Don't let the bureaucratic largesse destroy HC identity: What are kids doing for fun on weekends? Seems to me like the sports programs have had sustained anemia while the off-campus community was (for right or wrong) plundered, while it was replaced with poor student programming--to be clear, I am not advocating for animal house, but what I am advocating for is a little fun and freedom mixed with containment strategy
9) Montserrat seems like it has been a major success--bringing students together in a seminar format is a major value prop of the school (strong professors, low prof / student ratio) and we should be waving the banner here. Post-covid, the sale of "we live together, learn together, are together" will be a winning one. If painful zoom call is analogous to large university with hundreds students per class, we need to be the antithesis of that
10) Are we double-downing on winning formulas of HC pre-med? HC pre-law? (For the vocational types)
11) Will Holy Cross draw a line in the sand of where we stand on either being: U Chicago model (it's about your ideas, not your identity) or U-Berkley (you will only have a say if you successfully tie your identity to victimized group X)
12) What are ways in which HC can engage with alums between 30-45? Seems like we educate then wait for you to get grey hairs to donate the big bucks...Can we better serve mid-career alumni? Or is this "not our job"?
That's it for now. If you have made it this far, thanks for the opportunity to brain dump.
