CEMR 2010 Enrollment Plan Report

Prepared for theUndergraduate Academic Affairs Committee

andGraduate Program and Research Committee

Agenda

Enrollment background 2010 WVU Goals and CEMR Plans Progress toward goals Threats to meeting our goals

Undergraduate Enrollment - UgE

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NDME 162 208 178 235 267 300 338

DME 1040 1033 1027 1039 1136 1167 1193

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MSci 519 618 709 620 528 468

Total 693 815 931 858 739 683

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FrNDM 424 468 591 550 549 561

All NDM 632 646 826 817 849 899

DM 1033 1027 1039 1136 1167 1193

Total 2358 2488 2796 2811 2755 2775

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Total enrollment is stable even with MS enrollment declines but needs to grow

The challenge!

The University goal for CEMR is a 12.3% increase in F05 enrollment and instructional FTE by Fall of 2010

Fall 2005 enrollment & instructional FTE levels were 2749 students: 2012 undergraduate & 737 graduate

students 1895 instructional FTE * # of undergraduate sch/15 or # of grad sch/12

By Fall 2010 CEMR must Increase enrollment by 354 students from Fall 05

enrollment of 2749 Increase instructional FTE by 240 from Fall 05

instructional FTE of 1859

The CEMR plan

Enrollment growth must occur in both the undergraduate and graduate programs. Undergraduate efforts will focus on improving

the quality and quantity of freshman class majors, Engineering, General engineering, Pre-Biom & Pre-CS

freshman to sophomore retention, sophomore to junior retention and increasing our first time transfers through

articulation agreements. Graduate efforts will focus on increasing

graduate enrollment and the enrollment ratio of Ph.D. to Master’s degree.

Engineering major Engineering (Code 3040) enrollment by

about 13% from 274 (F05) to 320 (F10) Responsibility: Migri Prucz Plan: 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010

274 280 290 300 310 320 How:

Increased HS outreach in WV through HS career fairs Contact with minority or under-represented groups

Focused mailing to inquiry database, etc. Earlier branding of potential students

General Engineering

Maintain General Engineering (Code 3049) enrollment at about 240 through F(10) Responsibility: Migri P. Plan: 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010

246 250 250 250 245 240

How: Continue current activities of mailing, on-

campus visitation days, etc.

Pre-Biometrics

Pre-Biometrics (Code 3090) enrollment from 7 in Fall 2005 to 21 by Fall 2010 Responsibility: Migri Prucz & LDCSEE Plan: 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010

7 8 10 13 17 21

How: Under development

Pre-CS

Pre-CS (Code 3034) enrollment from 25 in Fall 2005 to 50 by Fall 2010 Responsibility: Migri Prucz & LDCSEE Plan: 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010

25 28 32 37 43 50

How: Under development

Quality of FTFT freshman

average ACT/SAT math scores of 3040 majors from 28.9/651 (F05) to 31/665 (F10) Responsibility: Migri P. and ADAA Plan:

Increase # of students with ACT/SAT math scores >= 32/720 from 32 in 2005 to 48 by 2010;

Increase # of students with ACT/SAT math scores between 29-32/650-720 from 80 in 2005 to 120 by 2010;

How: STAR program; Freshman scholarship; etc.

“STAR” program for residents

1st time done was in F05 for 06/07 recruits

HS GPA 3.8 or greater; ACT/SAT math score of 30/700 or greater; and ACT/SAT composite or total score of 30/1340 or greater 38 invited 13 attended (34%) 9 made academic and housing deposits

(69%)

Quality of FTFT recruits

average ACT/SAT math scores of 3049 majors from 22.6/539 (F05) to 23.5/545(F10) Responsibility: Migri P. ADAA Plan:

Reduce # of students with ACT/SAT math scores of ≤ 22/500

How: Under discussion in the EC

Raise ACT/SAT math entrance requirements to 22/500

wait list students with ACT/SAT math scores ≤ 22/500

Freshman retention

Maintain Fr/Soph retention of 3040 majors at or above 73% Responsibility: Robin H. Plan: Keep retention of 3040 majors

above 73% annually How:

Continue initiatives started since 2003; Annually improve the academic quality of

the FTFT 3040 students

Retention efforts: Grade in Math 155 classes

First Time Engineering Students getting a C or better

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Math 155 38.3% 43.1% 51.8% 56.8% 48.4% 63.0%

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Retention efforts: GPA in Math 155 classes

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Freshman retention

Fr/Soph retention of 3049 majors from 55% (04/05 AY) to 61% (10/11 AY) Responsibility: Robin H. Plan: 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010

57% 58% 59% 60% 60% 61%

How: Continue initiatives started since 2003; Annually improve the academic quality of

the FTFT 3049 students

Freshman retention

Fr/Soph retention of 3034 and 3090 majors from about 40% (F05) to 65% (F10) Responsibility: LDCSEE Plan: 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010

40% 45% 50% 55% 60% 65%

How: Changed requirements to move from Pre-

CS to CS; Other initiatives being developed

Sophomore to Junior retention

Benchmarked sophomore losses in the majors over three years from 2000/01 to 2002/03

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Soph. to J r. losses averaged about 20%J r. to Sr. losses averaged about 5%Sr. losses averaged <2%

Our target Soph. to Jr. losses Asked chairs to indicate what they thought were reasonable

losses in the majors and created a target retention curve

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Benchmark Target

Retention – major soph. cohort study to Sr. year

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Benchmark 2003 2004 2005 Target

Majors initiating sophomore retention plans with the 2006/07 academic year.

Sophomore to Junior losses in the majors

Discipline major sophomore losses across the college from an average of about 20% to 12% by 09/10 AY Responsibility: Individual departments Plan: individual to departments

depending on benchmarking performance

Progress will be monitored by my office and reported annually

MS enrollment

Maintain or have small growth in the MS graduate enrollment from its current level level of about 540 students in F(05) Responsibility: Departments and College Plan: 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010

530 530 535 535 540 540

Ph.D. enrollment

Ph.D. enrollment from 184 students in Fall 2005 to 280 by Fall 2010 Responsibility: Departments and College Plan 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010

184 200 220 240 260 280

Total Graduate enrollment

Increase graduate enrollment by about 9.5% from 739 in Fall 2005 to 808 by Fall 2010 Responsibility: Departments and College Plan: 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010

739 746 754 769 784 808

Goal for 2006/07 is for my office to bring renewed college and department focus on graduate recruiting and retention

CEMR Enrollment Plan

WVU Goal CEMR Plan

Enroll %∆ Enroll %∆

2005 2749 2749

2006 2803 2.0% 2756 0.3%

2007 2864 2.2% 2812 2.0%

2008 2935 2.5% 2896 3.0%

2009 3014 2.7% 2993 3.3%

2010 3103 3.0% 3113 4.0%

Total 12.3% Total 12.6%

Progress toward 06 goals

Engineering major enrollment Increase from 274 to 280 – actual was

313 # of students with SAT/ACT math

scores 720/32 Surpass 05 levels of 32 students – actual

was 28 # of students with SAT/ACT math

scores between 650-720 or 29-32 Surpass 05 levels of 80 students – actual

was 91

Progress toward 06 goals

Reduce General Engineering students with ACT/SAT math scores ≤ 500 Have fewer than the 67 students in 2005

– actual number in 2006/07 was only 55 students

05/06 Fr-Soph retention Keep Engineering major at or above 73%

- actual was 74% Increase General Engineering major

from 55% to 57% - actual was 61%

Progress toward 06 goals

Graduate enrollment Keep MS enrollment around 530 to 540 –

actual was 468 Increase PhD enrollment from 184 to

200 – actual was 182 Increase Total graduate enrollment from

739 to 746 – actual was 683

The results- enrollment

Head count Majors

CEMR Plan

CEMR Actual

Instructional FTE

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Fall 2006 2803 2756 2775 1895 1864 1901

Undergrad

2085 2092 1827

Grad 746 683 37

Increase 54 7 26 36 5 42

Met our goals except for graduate enrollment

Other positive news

In 2005 WVU’s undergraduate enrollment level broke the ASEE national top 50 largest BS programs at #48

CEMR undergraduate enrollment growth is exceeding our peers.

Cummulative Undergraduate Enrollment Growth Since 2001

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Threats to meeting our goals

Nationally B.S. enrollment growth turned negative in 2004. The projections are for several more years of negative enrollment growth. Even though we offer a tremendous

product to potential students it is likely that we will not be able to buck that national B.S. enrollment trend for long if it continues.

ASEE undergraduate data

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B.S. National 2.7% 5.0% 2.7% 2.2% -0.2% -2.3%

B.S. WVU 6.3% 1.0% 0.5% 11.5% 4.7% 3.2% 3.8%

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Based on ASEE Undergraduate Enrollment Data

Threat to meeting our goals

Nationally engineering MS enrollment growth rate has been negative for the last 3 yrs recruiting into a negative growth trend is

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M.S. National 13.1% 7.3% 11.3% -2.2% -8.3% -1.7%

M.S. WVU -5.4% 2.8% 19.1% 14.7% -12.6% -24.5% -11.4%

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Based on ASEE Masters Enrollment Data

Threats to meeting our goals

By 2010 all the states from which we recruit the best will be facing declining HS school populations

Thank you

QUESTIONS/COMMENTS

ASEE Doctoral Data

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PhD National 7.1% 6.2% 15.2% 12.0% 6.0% 2.3%

PhD WVU 2.6% 11.8% 12.8% 24.0% 5.4% -7.1% -1.1%

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Based on ASEE Doctoral Enrollment Data