Hello Joseph
I didn't see any other institutions respond to your post so I wanted to chime in and share some information that I have. It is possible that several other colleges in California and elsewhere are in the process of implementing AI solutions or at least discussing enrollment modeling as a Use Case. Personally, this has come up in a few conversations I have had with colleges and universities this year.
Here are some resources that I found that may be helpful.
- Su Seon Yang & Sunny Moon at California State University, Los Angeles have posted a 2019 document on this topic. https://cair.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/474/2019/12/Enrollment-Modeling.pdf
- ENROLL is a vendor solution. https://www.capturehighered.com/platform/predictive-modeling/enroll/
- University of Buffalo has posted some results of their modeling online. https://www.buffalo.edu/oia/institutional-analytics/modeling-tools.html
Looking at the trends of platform and infrastructure services from various vendors, I observe that they are taking quick and long strides to make their platforms easier to use. For example, running your data set through a variety of ML algorithms doesn't require a custom setup and a team of data science engineers. You can subscribe to a Auto ML service on the Cloud and feed your data set and select the algorithm and ask it to analyze your data. That's good news for customers and consumers.
There is always the ability of building your own "stack" of AI services, including infrastructure and software and training your own models, fine tuning them and maintaining them. I suspect there will be commoditized versions of some of these models, maybe not all, in the coming months and years for customers to just consume in an as-a-service model.
While all that is happening, if you are interested in taking AI for a test drive, or just having an exploratory conversation, please reach out and I will be happy to meet.
Thanks
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Astute Business Solutions
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Original Message:
Sent: 08-02-2024 02:22 PM
From: Joseph Hackbarth
Subject: AI for Enrollment Modeling
Hello
We are looking to utilize AI to help us with enrollment model and class scheduling. Has any public institution of our size successfully implement AI in their enrollment modeling and/or class scheduling planning? Would you be willing to share your experience of how you accomplished it (vendor, in house development, etc)?
Thanks in advance!
Institution background:
PeopleSoft Campus Solutions 9.2 SIS
Public 4-year University
Approx. 27k undergrads enrolled as of Fall 2021
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Joseph Hackbarth
Director of Student Systems and Operations
California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
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