Enrollment Growth Planning in the Colleges
A Preliminary Conversation
Long-term Enrollment Growth Planning (AY 2007/08-2016/17)
- Overview of USF Academic Affairs Strategic and Business Plans - USF's Strategic Imperatives: UG/GR mix; Student quality and academic success; Targeted degrees; Underrepresented graduates; Doctoral degree production; Postdoctoral appointees
To grow or not to grow? - Enrollment growth considerations:
- How do you want to grow? GR:UG, FT:PT, Quality vs quantity, Diversity, Targeted programs/departments? Projected new degree programs?
- How much do you want to grow? The ramification and rewards of enrollment planning.
- How much can you grow with your current resource base?
- What resources will you need to grow? Faculty, staff, stipends/waivers, technology, space?
- What new resources will the projected enrollment growth generate?
- What other challenges impact your enrollment growth planning? Marketplace competitors? Tuition? Professional accreditation standards?
- How must your college transform academic delivery to meet student need?
- Regional campuses and "off-campus" delivery
- SUS/BOG Enrollment Growth Plan - and principles of funding. Access and diversity initiatives; Targeted degree productivity; Community college delivery of baccalaureate degrees; Underrepresented graduates; Enhanced student academic success
- Enrollment history in your college/departments
- Current enrollment plan for your college/departments
- USF's fundamental planning assumptions
- The task of developing a college enrollment growth plan (AY 2007/08-2016/17)
Short-term Enrollment Growth Planning (AY 2006/07)
- Meeting the funded enrollment growth plan corridor at USF (AY 2006/07)
- Enrollment growth considerations - What can your College contribute?
- Current enrollment plan for your college/departments (for AY 2006/07)
- How much can you contribute with your current resource base?
- What resources will you need to grow beyond the funded plan?
- What are the ramifications of not meeting the funded college/departmental plans?
- What other challenges impact your enrollment growth planning?
- Summer pilot program - Summer 2006 - Stay tuned!
THE CHALLENGE AT HAND: Timelines for Submission of College Enrollment Plans
(Short-term and Long-term planning)
- March 8, 2006 - Proposed college enrollment plans are due to Dr. Michael Moore
- March 13, 2006 - Considered at the AAPG meeting
- April 6, 2006 - Presented to BOT ACE Workgroup prior to BOT approval and BOG submission