student retention challenges ~actions to improve situation starting from india~ region 10 meeting...
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Student Retention Challenges~actions to improve situation starting from India~
Region 10 Meeting3-4 March 2012Kolkata, IndiaTakao Onoye, Dr.Eng., Osaka UniversityRegional Student Activities Coordinator
Aby Kurian, Vimal Jyothi Engineering College Regional Student Representative
The Whole Figure of R10 Student Activities
R10 Student members
Dec 2009 : 35,904
Jan 2012 : 43,264
(SriLanka: 67GSMs, 545 StMs)
R10 Student Branches
Dec 2009: 672
Sep 2011: 805
185 SB/SB Chapter/SB WIEAG petitions approved in 2011
“Non-Stop” growth can be observed in R10 StMs/GSMs
2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 20110
5000
10000
15000
20000
25000
30000
35000
40000
45000
50000
Total StM GSM
However…
Student Members Retention Rate
R10 suffers from “very low” retention rate of StMs/GSMs
Graduate Students Undergraduate Students
Opportunities Renewal Rate Opportunities Renewal Rate
R1-9 25,366 19,297 76.1% 25,652 10.712 41.8%
R10 9,480 4,681 49.4% 22,629 4,838 21.4%
India 3,038 946 31.2% 18,615 3,377 18.1%
R10 excl. India 6,442 3,735 58.0% 4,004 1,461 36.5%
Membership Retention in July 2011
Someone says this is the problem in India…. but
This issue should be considered Region-wide.
Membership Makeup (July 2011)
HG58%
GSM12%
StM30%
Region 10
HG76%
GSM10%
StM14%
Overall IEEE
HG30%
GSM10%
StM59%
India# Members: 379,266 84,254 33,947
Prof. Mini Thomas’s report on 2011
Considering membership construction, we should escape from this High-in High-out structure to achieve sustainable development of R10.
What do we know? Year after year, this is what the membership in India looks like
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15+0
2000
4000
6000
8000
10000
12000
14000
16000
18000
20000
STU-STU
STU-HG
HG-STU
HG-HG
AF-STU
AF-HG
Start Grade- Cur-rent Grade
IEEE Membership in India by Years of Service (14 Aug 2009)
Years of Service
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Something is wrong with First Year student retention in India
Prof. Mini Thomas’s report on 2011
Why not to renew?
o Membership is too expensiveo Lack of local IEEE activityo Membership did not meet expectations
The top 3 reasons were:
Overall satisfaction was a lot lower among India students (18%), compared to US 46% on top 3 box % (very satisfied)
2010 Non-renewing survey
Prof. Mini Thomas’s report on 2011
And other issues include:
o Lack of awareness of branch counseloro Mass recruitment then insufficient members
support o Student branch rebate based on just # members
2012 Project 1:“Haute Couture” Support by GINI India
GINI India term tries to create SIGs to support student members being classified based on several parameters:
Yr of Study Department Area of Interest
Graduation Year of StMs
Different Construction of StMs (UG students): Young (1st~3rd Yrs) students enrolled more in India
2013- Total %R10 Total 24741 36270 68%India 21585 30145 72%R10 Except India 3156 6125 52% China Council 521 839 62%Japan Council 226 623 36%Korea Council 199 403 49%Australia Council 249 569 44%NZ Council 158 286 55% Singapore 102 212 48%Hong Kong 59 97 61%Indonesia 51 121 42%Malaysia 151 297 51%Taiwan 254 460 55%Bangladesh 229 522 44%Thailand 34 89 38%
Senior(4th Yr) students: usually have solid motivation in their designated fields
Freshman/Sophomore students: need to receive wide/general knowledge
2012 Project 2
Section #SB ~10 10~30 30~50 50~100 100~Bangalore 60 23 10 4 13 10Bombay 94 44 18 12 10 10Delhi 74 25 19 8 16 6Gujarat 16 5 5 3 2 1Hyderabad 87 41 23 7 9 7Kerala 62 9 13 10 15 15Kharagpur 3 0 0 1 2 0Kolkata 20 10 6 2 2 0Madras 183 88 40 19 19 17Pune 9 4 1 1 0 3Utta Pradesh 13 5 5 2 0 1Sum 621 254 140 69 88 70
SBs in India w/ # members
Call for project proposals to raise student retention rate.
SB allotment: 50$(~50StM/GSMs) 100$(50~StM/GSMs)SB rebate: 2$/member
Select three excellent proposals from Large and Middle size SBs. Plans will be shared and executing among SBs.
Large Size SB(100~)Middle Size SB(30~100)
1st 250USD2nd 150USD3rd 100USD
Total: 1,000USD
“Stay as members” Project Plan Competition
2012 Project 3: Student Professional Mentorship Program (SPMP)
R10 SAC Team
R10 GOLD Team
Resource Pool
SPMP Coordinator
+
SPMP Team
Student Members
SPMP Web Portal
(Social networking+ Technical discussions)
Project Structure
• A specific team to execute this project should be formed with a coordinator to coordinate the whole process. We suggest the team should comprise ofSPMP CoordinatorTwo team members
• The team should identify a professional pool of volunteers who are ready to help students with their area of interest. These volunteers are added to the pool of resource.
SPMP Coordinators• Aby Kurian (R10 SAC)
Regional Student Representative
• Rayees Amar Nishad (R10 GOLD) South Asia GOLD Coordinator
2012 Other Activities
Online/Offline Support of SB Officers/Counselors
Volunteer Training/Development Webcasts are to be coordinated frequently by
o Hang-Bong Kang (R10 MDC)
o Takao Onoye (R10 SAC)
o Aby Kurian (R10 SR)
o Darrel Chong (MGA SAC Chair)
o Om Perkash (MGA SAC-GOLD Rep)
o S. Gopakumar (Kerala Section Volunteer)
o ….and…
Branch Operation Manual
Branch Counselor’s Guide
New Member Enrollm
ent
etc…
All section/council chairs!
