HEA 560 Milestone One Guidelines and Rubric Your specific role within a higher education institution will dictate not only your daily responsibilities, but also your unique perspectives related to the development and implementation of institutional policies, your interpretations of how state and federal policies impact student outcomes, and the relationships that you currently hold or could build with internal and external stakeholders. In your role as a higher education administrator within a specific unit or department, you may also be directly impacted by institutional, state, or federal policies established by others. Consequently, you may be tasked with following regulations according to the mandates, recommendations, or suggestions under those policies. For this milestone, the perspective from which you will write the final admission policy proposal will guide your priorities—the level of authority or reach you hold as an administrator, the partnerships that you need to consider as you develop the policy, and your ability to implement the policy within the higher education institution. Furthermore, the perspective you take for this assignment will functionally determine the types of resources at your disposal, the academic and professional communities to which you belong, your unit or department’s role in the overarching strategic plan of the institution, and your responsibility for helping the institution to achieve its mission statement each year. The four perspectives from which you will choose include the following:  Director of Enrollment Management  Director of Student Activities  Faculty in the Business School  Director of Institutional Effectiveness Each of these professional roles carries a unique set of responsibilities and considerations—and all functionally operate in units with different missions as they relate to the overarching mission of the institution. In Module Two, you will share with your peers the perspective that you have selected for your final project, the written admission policy proposal. Throughout this course, this role or perspective will frame your responses for all tasks related to the policy proposal. As you consider the perspective you selected, address the prompt requirements in your initial post and as you extend the conversations with your peers. As you consider the perspective you selected, address the following prompts in your initial post on the discussion topic: 1. Select and identify a perspective you will use to guide your development of the admission policy proposal. 2. Explain why you selected this perspective. Explain your level of familiarity with the perspective and describe the areas that you currently need guidance in regarding writing a policy from the perspective that you have chosen. 3. Identify three professionals that are currently in positions at institutions similar to that in the final project—small, highly-selective, in ...

1. HEA 560 Milestone One Guidelines and Rubric
Your specific role within a higher education institution will
dictate not only your daily responsibilities, but also your unique
perspectives related to the
development and implementation of institutional policies, your
interpretations of how state and federal policies impact student
outcomes, and the relationships
that you currently hold or could build with internal and external
stakeholders. In your role as a higher education administrator
within a specific unit or
department, you may also be directly impacted by institutional,
state, or federal policies established by others. Consequently,
you may be tasked with following
regulations according to the mandates, recommendations, or
suggestions under those policies.
For this milestone, the perspective from which you will write
the final admission policy proposal will guide your priorities —
the level of authority or reach you
hold as an administrator, the partnerships that you need to
consider as you develop the policy, and your ability to
implement the policy within the higher
education institution. Furthermore, the perspective you take for
this assignment will functionally determine the types of
resources at your disposal, the academic
and professional communities to which you belong, your unit or
department’s role in the overarching strategic plan of the
institution, and your responsibility for
helping the institution to achieve its mission statement each
year.

2. The four perspectives from which you will choose include the
following:
Each of these professional roles carries a unique set of
responsibilities and considerations —and all functionally operate
in units with different missions as they
relate to the overarching mission of the institution.
In Module Two, you will share with your peers the perspective
that you have selected for your final project, the written
admission policy proposal. Throughout
this course, this role or perspective will frame your responses
for all tasks related to the policy proposal. As you consider the
perspective you selected, address
the prompt requirements in your initial post and as you extend
the conversations with your peers.
As you consider the perspective you selected, address the
following prompts in your initial post on the discussion topic:
1. Select and identify a perspective you will use to guide your
development of the admission policy proposal.
2. Explain why you selected this perspective. Explain your level
of familiarity with the perspective and describe the areas that
you currently need guidance

3. in regarding writing a policy from the perspective that you have
chosen.
3. Identify three professionals that are currently in positions at
institutions similar to that in the final project—small, highly-
selective, institutions that offer
primarily bachelor-level degrees. Describe and rank those
professionals based on their familiarity with institutional, state,
and federal policies related to
college students’ access and success in higher education.
Include your thoughts on why you would like to learn more
about their perspectives on the
topics of this course and your final project.
4. Review the American Association of Collegiate Registrars
and Admissions Officers (AACRAO) website. Explain the
trends you see emerging for the field of
admissions.
5. Describe two to three sources of information from the
NACAC website that will be useful to you moving forward.
Include the source information in your
post by citing the sources within your response and discussing
whether you would deem the sources credible.
As you reply to your peers, address the following requirements:
1. Provide one to two additional peer-reviewed sources that may
benefit your peer when it comes to writing the final paper (e.g.,

4. a journal article or policy
report). Explain how the additional sources would be useful.
2. Identify two concerns or topics that you perceive an
individual working within your peer’s selected perspective may
need to consider when writing a new
admissions policy (e.g., a director of student activities may hold
a concern that there is not enough study space on campus to
accommodate influxes in
enrollment).
Guidelines for Submission: Students are required to post one (1)
initial post and to follow up with at least two (2) response posts
for each discussion topic
assignment.
For your initial post (1) you must:
local time
zone of the module week
on material such as course content and
other
discussion topics from the current module and previous
modules, when
appropriate
For your response posts (2) you must:

5. initial
post thread
your local
time zone
agree” or
“You are wrong”
https://www.aacrao.org/
https://www.nacacnet.org/
Rubric
Critical Elements Exemplary (100%) Proficient (90%) Needs
Improvement (70%) Not Evident (0%) Value
Comprehension
Develops an initial post by
identifying a selected perspective,
explaining why the perspective
was selected, describing areas in
which more knowledge is needed,
identifying three professionals
working in similar positions,
explaining trends impacting
admission professionals, and
including three sources of
information regarding those

6. admission trends by using rich
and significant detail
Develops an initial post by
selecting a perspective, describing
areas in which more knowledge is
needed, identifying two
professionals working in similar
positions, explaining trends
impacting admission
professionals, and including two
sources of information regarding
those admission trends by using
appropriate detail
Develops an initial post by
selecting a perspective,
identifying one professional
working in a similar position,
explaining one trend facing
admission professionals, and
including one source of
information
Does not develop an initial post,
select a perspective, identify
professionals working in similar
positions, or identify trends facing
admission professionals
20
Timeliness
Submits initial post on time by
Thursday at 11:59 PM of your
local time zone

7. Submits initial post by Friday at
11:59 PM of your local time zone,
one day late
Submits initial post by Saturday at
11:59 PM of your local time zone,
two days late
Submits initial post by Sunday at
11:59 PM of your local time zone,
three days late
10
Engagement
Provides relevant and meaningful
response posts with clarifying
explanation and detail
Provides relevant response posts
with some explanation and detail
Provides somewhat relevant
response posts with some
explanation and detail
Provides response posts that are
generic with little explanation or
detail
20
Critical Thinking Provides two additional peer-
reviewed sources (each) that
benefit two classmates, explains

8. how the resources will benefit
peers, and identifies two
concerns peers would need to
consider from their policy
perspective
Provides one additional peer-
reviewed source (each) that
benefits two classmates, explains
how the resources will benefit
peers, and identifies one concern
peers would need to consider
from their policy perspective
Provides one additional peer-
reviewed source that benefits one
classmate, explains how the
resources will benefit peers, and
identifies one concern peers
would need to consider from
their policy perspective
Does not provide additional peer-
reviewed sources, sources
provided are not peer-reviewed,
or explanations regarding the
resources are not provided to
peers
30
Writing
(Mechanics)
Initial post and responses are
easily understood, clear, and

9. concise using proper citation
methods where applicable with
no errors in citations
Initial post and responses are
easily understood using proper
citation methods where
applicable with few errors in
citations
Initial post and responses are
understandable using citation
methods where applicable with a
number of errors in citations
Initial post and responses are not
understandable and do not use
proper citation methods where
applicable
20
Earned Total 100%