Enrollment Planning Team

Enrollment Planning Team

Minutes

March 20, 2006

Present: Mr. Andrew Hendrix, Dr. Ann Willbrand, Dr. Braden Hosch, Mr. Corey Feraldi, Dr. Deidre Martin, Mrs. Gail Ratchford, Mr. Glenn Shumpert, Ms. Jennie Volforte, Ms. Jennifer Lake, Mrs., Katya Terry, Mr. Nickolas Kelch, Mr. Marshall Davis, Mr. Randy Warrick, Ms. Stacie Williams, Dr. Tom Mack, Mr. Tony Ateca, Dr. Val Lumas, Mrs. Vivian Grice, Guest: Ms. Jodi Herrin

Not Present: Mr. Randy Duckett, Mr. Ahmed Samaha, Dr. Deb Kladivko, Dr. Ed Callen, Ms. Gwen Ashley, Ms. Stephanie Foote, Dr. Suzanne Ozment

Dr. Braden Hosch welcomed the attendees and gave a brief change in the order of the agenda due to other University commitments. Dr. Hosch also stated that the meeting on April 17^th would be a 1 ½ hour meeting and the items not covered on the agenda today will be covered at that meeting.

Action Team Report

At Risk Action Team – Dr. Ann Willbrand

Approximately 150 students (in the bottom 50% of their graduating class) were mailed invitation letters to the First Pace program on the 9^th and 10^th of March. One week later letters were mailed to the parents of these students. As of March 17^th six of these students have returned their form.
Minor revisions to the Early Warning form have been made and the form is now web-based with 258 forms being returned to Advisement Services Office for the spring semester.

Research Updates

Jodi Herrin, Assistant Director of Institutional Effectiveness, conducted a presentation on Patterns of Student Departure and Migration. Data were gathered from the National Student Clearinghouse and analyzed by year of enrollment and by institution.

Fall to Fall Enrollment at USCA and Other Institutions

		Returning to USCA	Graduated by next Fall	Attending Other 4-Yr. Inst.	Attending Other 2-Yr. Inst.	Not Enrolled Anywhere*
Fall 2003 to Fall 2004	All Students	55.7%	18.6%	7.6%	5.7%	12.4%
Fall 2003 to Fall 2004	FT FY Students	64.4%	--	9.9%	11.7%	14.0%
Fall 2004 to Fall 2005	All Students	55.7%	18.4%	8.7%	4.9%	12.3%
Fall 2004 to Fall 2005	FT FY Students	60.4%	--	9.6%	12.9%	17.0%

* Non-enrollees may be overcounted as a result of privacy requests that block the release of enrollment information.

Data Source: National Student Clearinghouse

Top destination institutions were Aiken Tech and USC Columbia; further behind were Midlands Tech, Piedmont Tech, and Clemson.

The IE Office is working to determine patterns of departure related to student characteristics. For instance, Ms. Herrin reported that a disproportionate number of engineering majors departed for USC and Clemson, and a disproportionate number of nursing majors departed for Aiken Tech. Dr. Hosch cautioned that while these patterns make intuitive sense, in many cases the number of departures are small enough that it will be difficult to identify statistically significant patterns by destination institution.

The full presentation can be found on the EPT website at: http://www.usca.edu/ESIP/ept/pdf/StudentMigration.pdf.

Action Team Report

Financial Aid Scholarship Committee – Glenn Shumpert

Glenn Shumpert, Director of Financial Aid presented the “USCA Financial Aid/Strategy Team Scholarship Strategy Summary and Recommendations” from the committee. Glenn stated the process the committee was charged and made the following recommendations.

Recommendation to change scholarships to fixed dollar amounts:
- For the USCA Chancellor’s Scholarships for 2007-08, the award should be $6,950.00 per year
- For the Valedictorian Scholarships, the award should be $5,000.00 per year.
- Scholarship eligibility criteria should be changed to be the same as eligibility for LIFE and Hope Scholarships.
Recommendation to increase the annual dollar amount for the Vernon and Wava Ford Recruiters and USCA Bookstore Scholarships.
- These recruiter scholarships should be increased from $2,000.00 to $2,500.00
- 15 to 20 of these scholarships should be offered
- These scholarships should be made renewable, with scholarship eligibility criteria the same as those for LIFE and Hope Scholarships.
Recommendation to make $200,000 available for need-based scholarships through the USCA fee waiver account. The criteria for theses scholarships should be:
- Good students
- Financial need as determined by data received on the FAFSA.

The scope of these recommendations was limited in order to implement them for the 2007/2008 academic year; they would be advances to build on in the future.

Dr. Hosch made the suggestion that we all read over the information provided by Glenn and the Financial Aid Scholarship Committee and contact Glenn for any clarification and when we meet in April modifications can be made at that time.

Meeting was adjourned at 4 pm.

Respectfully submitted,

Gail Ratchford