Starting Points Building on Success Purdue University Calumet’s Strategic Plan Results from past initiatives inform future planning.

Success: Building Enrollment with Quality Initiatives  Raised admissions standards  Attracted more minority students  Increased enrollment overall

Test Scores, One Indicator of Enrollment Quality Success:

Minority Enrollment Success:

Enrollment by Headcount and FTE Success:

Retention and Graduation Rate NOTE: Graduation rate reported reflects the entering cohort six years prior.

Program Fall to Fall Retention* Honors 95.8% Best & Brightest Scholarship 80.92% Student Employment 77.2% Supplemental Instruction 75.0% Freshmen Seminars 69.2% Academic Recovery Program 55.2% Retention Initiatives Averages *All undergraduates in program in fall and returning the next fall. Success:

Retention Initiatives Average Fall-to-Fall Retention Rate General Population64.10% Honors Program (1 yr)95.83% Best And Brightest Scholarships (3 yrs)80.92% Student Employment (5 yrs)77.22% Supplemental Instruction (4 yrs)75.01% Freshman Seminars (3 yrs)69.16% Academic Recovery Program (2 yrs)55.19% NOTE: Number of years represent the length of time since program was implemented. Success:

A New Way to Calculate Graduation Rates  ICHE seeks new approach to graduation rates  “Efficiency” rates focus on graduating students, not students’ time to graduation  Accounts for part-time students and transfers students Success:

A New Way to Calculate Graduation Rates Institution 4-year average rates: efficiency vs. time-to-degree Liberal Arts National Research Masters I, Tier I 75.3 Master I, Tier II 61.2 Master I, Tier III 50.2 Master I, Tier IV 56.2 Master I, Average Success:

New Programs Build Enrollments  BA Human Development & Family Studies (2001)  BA Business (2002)  AS & BS Computer Graphics Technology (2003)  BS Electrical Engineering (2006)  BS Mechanical Engineering (2006)  BS Civil Engineering (2006)  BS Computer Engineering (2006)  MS Technology (approved BOT 2007) 8 new degree programs ( ) 1 pending degree program Success:

Experiential Learning  April 2007: Purdue Calumet’s Faculty Senate approved experiential learning as a graduation requirement. Set quality standards for every experience.  October 2006: Purdue Calumet’s received a $1.7 million U.S. Dept. of Education Title III grant for faculty development and curriculum design in experiential learning. Success:

Types of Experiential Learning Service Learning Experiential Learning Under- graduate Research Practicum Cooperative Education Design Project Internship Cultural Immersion

Campus Life Success:

Economic Development: Supporting Start-up Companies  Purdue Technology Center: 14 clients  Lilly Opportunities for Indiana: 94 interns placed in three years $380,000 supports students and companies to grow Success:

Centers and Institutes Success:

Centers and Institutes WATER INSTITUTE  BP Project on quality of Lake Michigan water  Early warning system against threats to critical water systems Success:

Centers and Institutes CENTER FOR ENERGY, EFFICIENCY AND TECHNOLOGY  Improve energy utilization  Reduce emissions and costs Success:

Centers and Institutes NavOps  Science program for at-risk students in the region HAMMOND URBAN ACADEMY  Urban Science and Technology Charter Academy Success:

The Future: Continuing Challenges -6.1%

 Faculty salaries far below mean of peer institutions  Purdue Calumet down 12% from mean in 2005; 15% down from mean in 2006  State funding creates systemic problem  Need systemic solution Faculty and Staff Salaries Below the Peer Mean The Future:

 10-year enrollment decline (6.1%)  In ten years, university doubled the number of degrees awarded  Limited number of programs with few new programs Graduate Education The Future:

RECOMMENDATIONS  Track admissions and retention data  Encourage full-time graduate students  Conduct regional needs assessment Graduate Education The Future:

RECOMMENDATIONS  Increase financial support to students  Offer accelerated programs  Increase distance learning and web-based coursework Graduate Programs The Future:

Our Hedgehog Working Students Our passion: Graduating successful students What we are good at: flexibility and predictability in learning environment Support for working student Our economic driver: serving Northwest Indiana Jim Collins, Good to Great The Future:

Learning about Working Students Purdue Calumet students who work more than 27 hours a week risk…  Withdrawing during the semester  Taking a semester off  And eventually dropping out of school all together The Future:

 31% of the 21 and younger students worked more than 30 hours a week (Working Student Research, 2005 & 2007)  11% worked more than 40 hours/week Working Students The Future:

Working Students The Future:

Working Students The Future:

Working Students What we learn by interviewing working students…  They have highly structured routines  The work to pay bills, but also for personal independence  They do not see work as having a negative impact on school. (Work is a given) The Future:

Working Students THE INSTITUTION’S RESPONSE…  Support students with predictable and flexible learning environment  Be flexible in course delivery web-based learning tools  Be predictable in course scheduling to support students’ academic planning The Future:

 Environmental Scanning: Understanding our history and conditions for future planning  Getting our vision “right” seeing clearly where we want to be Strategic Planning has Started The Future: