To demonstrate that a serious problem exist
Evidence:
1. Number of student in an organization
2. Number of students that have been in the organization in the past
3. Amount of community service done this year
4. Amount of community service done in the past
5. Students demographics now and the past like age, student work load, if they are working or not, GPA, ethnicity
6. Time of meeting
7. Location on meeting
8. Other organizations of the same type
9. Cost of member ship now and previous years
10. Time needed for this organization
Research:
1. Statistics that can be found with public student records for this year and past years
2. Statistics of the organization-number of current students, past number of student
3. Pull this organizations national rating and other organizations ratings
4. Talk to the students in the organization past and present
5. Talk to students in similar organizations
6. Find the difference between this organization and others
7. What type of history does the organization have with the university
8. What type of history do other organization have with the university
9. Average time spent being involved in this organization
To demonstrate that your recommended solution is best and is feasible
Evidence:
1. Show that the solution will help the university
2. Show that students will benefit from this
3. Show that the community will also benefit,
4. Present different solutions
5. What makes the other solutions bad/good
Research:
1. What the organization has don for the university in the past
2. What the organization has don for the community in the past
3. What the organization has don for the students in the past
4. Take the interviews and find a solution
5. What types of things have they, if any, done in the past to boost enrollment
6. What types of things have worked or not worked.
7. Why did the other ideas not work
