September 2018 College Accomplishments
Growing Tech Jobs
Grew EFSC participation in the Florida East Coast
TechHire Consortium, which helps students break down
barriers to obtain training and employment in high-tech
industries. (Student Enrollment, Diversity Initiatives,
Community Awareness)
Highlights:
• To date, more than 145 students have participated,
including 71 minorities.
• The consortium includes EFSC, Daytona State
College and Florida State College of Jacksonville.
• Targeted industries include Computer Information
Technology and Advanced Manufacturing.
• Students receive customized advising, mentoring,
workshops and classes in EFSC’s state-of-the-art
computer labs.
•
Students also meet with industry experts and
employers to broaden their knowledge and gain job
prospects.
Training EFSC Leaders
Continued advancing the Administrative Leadership
Intern Program, an important initiative that prepares
tomorrow’s EFSC leaders through an intensive year-long
series of workshops to enhance key skills. (Diversity
Initiatives, Employee Relations)
Highlights:
• More than 40 people have participated in the
program since it began in 2011, with an emphasis
on women and minorities.
• Interns work side-by-side with select top-level
administrators, faculty and staff across all areas of
the college.
16
•
Areas of study include strategic planning,
academic technology, budgeting, diversity, ethics,
communication and conflict resolution.
•
Interns are also instructed to set career goals,
define their leadership style, develop operational
knowledge of the college and grow their influence
in the community.
• The result gives them the knowledge, skills and
attitudes necessary for leadership roles in today’s
fast-changing world of higher education.
• Participants who have risen to senior college
positions include Dr. Dedra Sibley, now Provost of
the Cocoa Campus; and Dr. Sharon Cronk-Raby, now
Associate Provost of the Titusville Campus.
Website, Social Media
Developed new initiatives for EFSC’s Website and Social
Media platforms, increasing its performance in marketing
programs, recruiting students and promoting college
events. (Student Enrollment, Diversity Initiatives,
Financial Management, Community Awareness)
Highlights:
• A focus on search engine optimization for
academic programs led to major increases in new
Website visitors from free searches not tied to paid
advertising campaigns.
• The visitor increases included Health and Nursing,
46 percent; Public Safety, 37 percent; Career and
Technical, 28 percent; Bachelor’s Degrees, 26
percent.
• Published 4,000 Website page changes, a record
number doubling prior years to better support
student recruitment and college-wide and EFSC
Foundation events.
• Drastically expanded the use of the Website
calendar system to better promote hundreds of
tutoring sessions and other student services and
events that speak to the collegiate experience.
• Began work on a new Website search tool that
will significantly improve the ability to search for
academic programs by topic, campus and delivery
method such as taking courses on-campus or
online.
• Expanded the use of low-cost social media posts to
promote academic programs and recruiting events
with great success.
• Supported the communications needs for the new
Student Application System as part of a multi-
department task force to develop and launch that
major initiative.