Ah, Statistics... It was the course almost every student feared most. It's been over five years since I was directing an accelerated program, but I vividly remember those panicked students' emails when they were desperately seeking help to avoid failing the course.
Here was their problem: they emailed me just before or after their third week, but the course was only six weeks. Our tutors couldn't catch them up in three weeks - their faculty may not be able to catch them up in that short span.
It was a turning point for me - instead of trying to implement better tutor training programs, we simply began taking opportunities to get in front of the problem.
We began introducing tutors the week before students began Statistics. In some cases (when the majority of a class hadn't taken a math course in more than 6 years) we assigned a tutor to a course and she/he attended the entire course.
Here's the point: When someone generally reaches out to me for help, their enrollment is 10+% off its mark, and its four weeks from the start of the semester.
I can do a lot of things, but I can't magically find an additional 250 prospective students that are ready to enroll, get them to apply, request transcripts and register for courses in two weeks' time. 
But I can begin planting the seeds; I can help you monitor your enrollment to identify when things begin to take a dip (before there's trouble).
Help me Rhonda... For three years I talked with Rhonda. She struggled to meet her fairly reasonable enrollment goal every year. As the Dean, Rhonda had the ability to make the necessary decisions to market, recruit and enroll new students.
She had been trying various tactics. Many were old, outdated tactics, but she was trying. We spoke once every three or four months about how things were working. I offered some tips along the way, but she rarely took any of them because she couldn't do this, or another department didn't want to be "aggressive."
I emailed her a few weeks back and found she was no longer at the institution. After some digging, I learned her departure was abrupt, and without fanfare.
I don't need to tell you why.
Are your plans to get things turned around working? Are you really monitoring progress closely? If I gave you three tips to try something different, could it help?


