IU’s Regional Campuses: Reaching Higher with the

Blueprint for Student Attainment

A Critical Role in ICHE’s Access-to-Completion Agenda

IU’s Regional Campuses—•Provide an accessibIe, affordable IU degree to a wide range of learners•Produce a skilled workforce for their regions•Educate the future citizens and leaders of their regions•Support state and regional economic development and civic engagement

Regional Campuses Are A Third of Indiana University

• 3,777 degrees awarded in 1998-99;

• 5,236 degrees awarded in 2009-10

• 80% of regional campus alumni stay in the community

• Opportunities for expansion

Broader Access to Higher Education

• Wide range of student preparation

• 42 % of undergrads are first generation students

• 58% of students caring for dependents

• 35% work more than 20 hours per week

A New Higher Education Paradigm

• Increasingly first choice of high school graduates

• Wide range of baccalaureate degrees

• More master’s degrees

• Phasing out associate degrees

• Phasing out credit-bearing remediation

IU’s Strategic Focus on the Regional Campuses

• Office of the Executive Vice President for University Regional Affairs

• Shared Vision Statement

• Blueprint for Student Attainment

Shared Vision Statement

IU’s Regional campuses will:• Be first-choice institutions for prepared Indiana

students

• Effectively prepare students for productive lives as members of the workforce and engaged citizens

• Be partners in enhancing the current and long-term prosperity of their communities, regions, and the state

Complements individual campus situations and identities.

Blueprint for Student Attainment

Six Key Areas:

1.Excellent, Distinctive Education

2.Student Success & Completion

3.Educational Access & Innovation4.Pathways and Transitions

5.Affordability and Efficiency6.Relevance to Regional & State Needs

Guiding Principles

• COLLABORATION is the basis for progress

• ENGAGEMENT of students in learning, of campuses with communities and regions

• EXCELLENCE in education, research, economic development, cultivation of efficiencies

Implementation

Already Underway. . .

8 Key Areas

#1 Develop pervasive student advising programs•Barriers/challenges can occur at all stages of a student’s career

•Closer linkages of academic and career counseling

•Complete College America grant

•Championed by IU Kokomo Chancellor Michael Harris

Reaching Higher: Increase student persistence by removing barriers to

college completion

8 Key Areas

#2 Collaboratively expand online education•Regional campuses will partner in developing/providing online education programs

•Championed by Barbara Bichelmeyer, Associate Vice President for University Academic Planning & IU Director of Online Education

Reaching Higher: Offer quality education to Hoosiers in a variety of

desired formats

8 Key Areas

#3: Expand programs directed toward regional needs & nontraditional students•Increase applied/active learning

•Develop new degree completion programs for adults

•Championed by IUSB Chancellor Mae Reck

Reaching Higher: Collaborate with government and business to create a well-prepared, world-class workforce

8 Key Areas

#4: Deepen partnerships with Ivy Tech

•Appoint Transfer Specialists on each campus

•Develop more collaborative working relationships

•Championed by IU East Chancellor Nasser Paydar

Reaching Higher: Provide seamless transfer of courses and degrees

8 Key Areas

• #5 Joint inter-campus academic programs and faculty development

• Alternate course scheduling for working students

• Championed by IU Northwest Chancellor Bill Lowe

Reaching Higher: Offer quality education to Hoosiers in a variety of

desired locations and times

8 Key Areas

#6 Develop a robust system of data gathering and evaluation•Continue analysis of factors that contribute to low degree completion rates•Address barriers and challenges•Championed by IU Southeast Chancellor Sandra Patterson-Randles

Reaching Higher: Develop data systems that will help close achievement gaps

8 Key Areas

#7: Consolidate back-office student services operations•Student Services Initiative•Inventory of all major sharable equipment•Championed by Jim Kennedy, Associate Vice President for University Student Services and Systems

Reaching Higher: Continually seek institutional efficiencies that contribute to holding down the

costs of postsecondary education

8 Key Areas

#8 Organization and long term planning

•Creation of a Center for Regional Campus Excellence

•Consider cross-campus schools or centers

•Championed by John Applegate, Executive Vice President for University Regional Affairs, Planning, and Policy

Reaching Higher: organizing to meet overarching goals

Student Attainment: The Ultimate Indicator of Our Success

• Blueprint is a living document• Operationalizes Reaching

Higher for the regional campuses

• Enhances distinctive strengths, missions of IU’s regional campuses

• Will support Reaching Higher 2.0 process

IU’s Regional Campuses: Reaching Higher with the

Blueprint for Student Attainment