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Adrian Guerra is cleaning his apartment before heading in for his 3 to 10 p.m. shift as a customer service rep at Publix. During his first two years as an integrated business major<\/a> at UCF, Guerra would do his best to squeeze 10 hours of work between classes and studies each week. Since spring break, though, he\u2019s been clocking 30 hours per week. He also started an internship with UCF Athletics, serves as a committee chair for the student ambassador program in the College of Business<\/a>, and is heavily involved in student government.<\/p>\n

Enrollment at UCF in the offbeat summer of 2020 is up over the routine summer of 2019. There are 6.6 percent more students taking 11.4 percent more credit hours than a year ago.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Oh, and there\u2019s this: \u201cI\u2019m taking more credit hours than usual this summer.\u201d<\/p>\n

From her home in Kissimmee, Sabah Qureshi accepts a call on a Tuesday morning. Qureshi, a biomedical sciences major<\/a>, has become remarkably productive from this very spot.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just finished a Zoom meeting \u2026 or class,\u201d says the pre-med student. Qureshi\u2019s instructor, after polling students at the beginning of the term, decided to set aside three hours to meet with them virtually six days a week. Qureshi is in as many of those as possible.<\/p>\n

Like Guerra, she\u2019s taking a bigger load of summer credit hours \u2014 a total of 12 between Summer A and Summer B terms \u2014 than normal. The Organic Chemistry II<\/em> class from which she\u2019s just logged out? It\u2019s being offered as a summer class for the first time ever.<\/p>\n

Qureshi and Guerra are part of a rising trend that\u2019s also raising eyebrows: Enrollment at UCF in the offbeat summer of 2020 is up over the routine summer of 2019. There are 6.6 percent more students taking 11.4 percent more credit hours than a year ago. The increase spawns from a convergence of factors, including, of all things, the campus going quiet for the past three months.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen we abruptly had to transition to remote instruction in mid-March, we were heading into uncharted waters. One concern that was top of mind was future enrollment,\u201d says Theodorea Regina Berry, UCF\u2019s vice provost of Student Learning and Academic Success and dean of the College of Undergraduate Studies<\/a>. \u201cWe learned that the UCF community is resilient. We banded together to create an environment focused on student success. Our approach worked; enrollment for Summer 2020 is up.\u201d<\/p>\n

***<\/p>\n

Guerra envisions himself being a human resources specialist for a resort in Florida sometime in the year 2022. You could say he\u2019s wired for details. On March 10, hours after ending his shift at Publix, he was using Pegasus Path<\/a> online to update his academic route toward \u201csometime in the year 2022\u201d when he received a text from a friend. Then another. \u201cDid you hear? UCF is closing campus.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cMy first thought was, \u2018Oh no. This will set my plans back \u2026 maybe way<\/em> back.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Qureshi heard the news while working in the office she uses as a teacher\u2019s assistant in the biology department. \u201cI figured the closure will be just a week, right? So I left a lot of my belongings in my cubicle.\u201d<\/p>\n

Those belongings are still there.<\/p>\n

Berry was barely two months into her new position at UCF. \u00a0During initial meetings with stakeholders across UCF, a topic of conversation was how to transform education by \u201csupporting initiatives to take learning outside the classroom.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe learned that the UCF community is resilient. We banded together to create an environment focused on student success. Our approach worked; enrollment for Summer 2020 is up.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014 Theodorea Regina Berry<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Reminded of this in early June while the classrooms remain empty, she laughs easily and says, \u201cThis is not<\/em> what I had in mind.\u201d<\/p>\n

During the early days of responding to COVID-19, Berry dealt with the urgent tasks of getting students who were studying abroad home and determining how undergraduates would continue internships and co-ops.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe realized that we were changing students\u2019 learning plans and began to contemplate what that would mean for future enrollment,\u201d says Berry. \u201cWe asked ourselves, \u2018Would students return to UCF or transition to colleges closer to home?\u2019 \u201d<\/p>\n

Normally, Admissions, Enrollment Services, Institutional Knowledge Management, and the Registrar\u2019s Office can predict shifts in advance. \u201cIn the midst of the pandemic, predicting was difficult,\u201d Berry says.<\/p>\n

UCF was ahead of the curve. It has more than 20 years of experience providing online courses. The university also made sure that students and faculty felt heard and supported.<\/p>\n

Through conversations, common messages arose: Make classwork more flexible. Use simulcasts, webcams and livestreams. Make lessons available on dedicated YouTube channels. And, while you\u2019re at it, why not offer more summer classes?<\/p>\n

\u201cEverything has led to creating more platforms for learning, so we are able to raise the bar to yet another level,\u201d says Berry. \u201cThat does not mean we\u2019ll stop doing what works for certain students. Some of them need the interaction in person. We happen to be working right now on ways to meet the needs of all students. We\u2019re learning a lot and making adjustments to teaching and learning, and if we\u2019re creating a better student experience, they\u2019ll be permanent.\u201d<\/p>\n

***<\/p>\n

Three months after wondering how deep into the 2020s he might be finishing his required classes, Guerra has a very different outlook: \u201cI\u2019m actually ahead<\/em> of schedule.\u201d Until this summer, two of his classes weren\u2019t available online: Quantitative Business Tools II<\/em> and Accounting for Decision Makers<\/em>. \u201cI\u2019m working more hours. I don\u2019t have to worry about rent. And I have more control of my time and my own path.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt can be challenging, but I have to look at it this way: By taking more classes now, I\u2019ll have more time to focus on my internships and volunteer work after things open back up.\u201d
\n\u2014 Sabah Qureshi<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Qureshi is also using the availability of summer classes to expedite her track to medical school \u2014 and, eventually, to opening her own family clinic.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt can be challenging,\u201d she says, \u201cbut I have to look at it this way: By taking more classes now, I\u2019ll have more time to focus on my internships and volunteer work after things open back up.\u201d<\/p>\n

The progressive actions taken as a result of conversations point to the factor that provides momentum in the flexibility-plus-availability equation. Berry noticed it when she came to visit UCF during a house-hunting trip in November 2019.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was struck by the relationships between the colleges and divisions and the dedication to student success,\u201d Berry says.<\/p>\n

When one instructor initially struggled to set up her remote lessons<\/a>, Qureshi helped the instructor figure it out. Guerra\u2019s professors, knowing he relies on his own electronic notes, are providing pdfs so he can mark them up and fully comprehend the material.<\/p>\n

Enrollment is up. In the days after March 10, who would have thought?<\/p>\n

\u201cIn hindsight, I think about the devotion of these students to UCF and vice versa,\u201d says Berry. \u201cAnd it\u2019s clear to me that no one wants to give that up. Perhaps we never should have doubted.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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