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Starting Points Building on Success Purdue University Calumet’s Strategic Plan 2007-2012 Results from past initiatives inform future planning.
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Success: Building Enrollment with Quality Initiatives Raised admissions standards Attracted more minority students Increased enrollment overall
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Test Scores, One Indicator of Enrollment Quality Success:
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Minority Enrollment Success:
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Enrollment by Headcount and FTE Success:
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Retention and Graduation Rate NOTE: Graduation rate reported reflects the entering cohort six years prior.
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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 2001-2007 Averages *All undergraduates in program in fall and returning the next fall. Success:
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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:
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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:
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A New Way to Calculate Graduation Rates Institution 4-year average rates: efficiency vs. time-to-degree Liberal Arts 96.492.0 National Research 90.290.5 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 60.7 47.7 Success:
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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 (2001-2007) 1 pending degree program Success:
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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:
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Types of Experiential Learning Service Learning Experiential Learning Under- graduate Research Practicum Cooperative Education Design Project Internship Cultural Immersion
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Campus Life Success:
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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:
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Centers and Institutes Success:
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Centers and Institutes WATER INSTITUTE BP Project on quality of Lake Michigan water Early warning system against threats to critical water systems Success:
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Centers and Institutes CENTER FOR ENERGY, EFFICIENCY AND TECHNOLOGY Improve energy utilization Reduce emissions and costs Success:
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Centers and Institutes NavOps Science program for at-risk students in the region HAMMOND URBAN ACADEMY Urban Science and Technology Charter Academy Success:
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The Future: Continuing Challenges -6.1%
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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:
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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:
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RECOMMENDATIONS Track admissions and retention data Encourage full-time graduate students Conduct regional needs assessment Graduate Education The Future:
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RECOMMENDATIONS Increase financial support to students Offer accelerated programs Increase distance learning and web-based coursework Graduate Programs The Future:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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Working Students The Future:
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Working Students The Future:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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