Enrollment Management Division

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Welcome!

• Enrollment Management Division

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Overview Strategic Plan
Enrollment Management Pre-admission to loyal
alum!

• Bill Fritz
• Associate Provost
• Georgia State University

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Enrollment Management

• Admissions
• Financial Aid
• Freshmen Studies
• International Student Scholar Services
• Registrar
• Student Advisement Center
• Cross-functional collaborations across the
  university (student services, finance
  administration, colleges, graduate programs,
  senate)

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Change!!

• Georgia State is in a major period of change
• Even good change is stressful
• Major reorganization new processes
• THANK YOU!!
• Challenges
• Budget
• Raises
• Stretched resources (5,000 new students)

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Enrollment ManagementStrategic Plan

• Vision
• Create an undergraduate student body with a
  profile reflective of a top research university
• Become known as having Superior Student Friendly
  Enrollment Management
• Mission
• Guide students in their college experience from
  pre-admission through timely graduation

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Georgia State University Overview of Change

• Research University
• 5,000 students in 5 years
• Increase in quality
• 60 of 1996 freshmen class not eligible for this
  fall
• 2500 FI, 2.5 GPA, earlier deadlines, better
  institutions
• Open access and support at 2-year colleges
• Village Lofts
• Facilities (e.g., rec center, Aderhold, student
  center)
• Semester System
• New Core Curriculum (transferable across entire
  system)

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Georgia State University Overview of Change

• Elimination of Learning Support (700/year)
• Drop in average age
• Georgia State now 1st Choice for an increasing
  number of students (60)
• Feeder schools
• (GPC , Ga Southern, SUWG, Clayton, UGA, Kennesaw)
• Main competition (UGA, Tech., Georgia Southern)
• GoSOLAR/Banner associated technology
• Reorganization of enrollment services
• No change in diversity
• Stable ethnic mix for over 6 years

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Division Highlights

• 14,000 new students/year
• Largest transfer school in the state (nation??)
• 2,400 fresh., 4,000 transfer 1,800 non-degree
  3,900 grad
• 42,000 applications/year
• 11,000 fresh 12,000 trans 5,000 non-degree
  14,000 grad
• Transcripts and enrollment verification online
• Degree audit on line (CAPP PACE)
• Presentations on financial aid, registration
  process, advisement to Incept, GSU 1010, and
  student groups
• FLC program ranked in U.S. News World Report!
• Advisers hold board positions, national
  recognitions, local/ national presentations,
  hosting 2006 conference

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Division Highlights

• Banner -- best implementation ever
• Earlier registration
• More than 10,500 already registered for Fall !!!
• Increased enrollment during a critical time for
  the university
• 27,000 undergraduate admissions applications
• Atlanta Based Learning initiative
• Campus Atlanta
• SEVIS and tracking of international students
  scholars
• 1000 AIP students advised each term
• Bringing the Division together --
• Remodeling renovations

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Division Highlights

• Imaging
• Core web and content management
• One Stop help center (coming soon!)
• Class schedule, undergraduate and graduate
  catalogs online
• Graduation and reentry applications online
• Financial aid and admissions applications online
• FLC open house and hosting of national
  conventional next year
• State Scholars program and community of scholars
• First annual major fair -- attracted 1,000
  students

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Division Highlights

• Collaboration 
• Offices collaborate on many functions (transfer
  credit, Regents' Test, Banner initiatives, orienta
  tion, registration, etc) to provide the best
  service possible to students
• 42,000 unique students registered for at least
  one class last year (50,000 eligible each term!!)
• Awarded 26M in Hope scholarships 14M in Pell
  Grants
• Processed 32,000 applications for financial aid
  and awarded 24,000
• Georgia State number 32 nationally for amount of
  student loans awarded!

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EM Goals

• Increase quality of undergraduate students
• Increase retention
• Increase graduation rates
• Increase student friendliness

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Vision for Georgia State Enrollment Management

• Superior Student Friendly Enrollment Management!
• Develop Leaders
• leaders at all levels
• United Georgia State University
• Develop institutional pride!
• Cross-functional teams/conversations
• Break down silos
• One Stop Records, GoSOLAR
• Data based decision

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Decisions Based On

• Is it customer friendly/oriented?
• Student friendly
• Faculty friendly
• Staff friendly
• Will it increase retention and graduation rates?
• Will it protect credit hours?
• How will it affect quality?
• Students, data, and the system
• Will it unite Georgia State?
• Data

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Priorities

• Student Friendly
• Technology for enhanced workflow
• Imaging
• Content management
• Degree audit (CAPP PACE)
• GoSOLAR/Banner enhancements
• Retention
• Recruitment

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Enrollment Fall 1995-2003
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Undergraduate applications per FY
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SAT FI Trends
Transfer GPA 2.78 2.82 2.81
2.86 2.85 2.91 2.93
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FI Trends as of Freshman class
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Diversity -- undergraduate.
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Example - Vision

• Georgia State -- one of the top 100 research
  universities!
• or
• Georgia State -- a student friendly place to
  learn!
• Not there now
• Something to strive for
• Measurable
• Vision for the future!

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GSU Mission

• Georgia States mission is to serve diverse
  population of metropolitan Atlanta, State,
  region
• Serve state, region, nation as a major research
  university in an urban setting
• Nation as a leader in urban research
• High ability students in Georgia
• Research experience for diverse student
  population in Atlanta Metro area
• Provide a supportive environment for teaching and
  learning

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Why is Georgia State Different?

• Downtown Atlanta
• Research University
• Diversity
• Academic Programs
• Business
• Biomedical Public Health
• Policy Studies
• P-16 Education
• Humanities Social Sciences
• Cares about students!

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Georgia State Rankings

• Vision Georgia State aspires to increase its
  reputation as a national research university
• top 100 in the U Florida rankings
• move out of the 4th tier in the US News World
  Report rankings (aspire to 2nd tier!)

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US News World Report

• Academic Reputation 25 (opinion surveys)
• Graduation/Retention Rates 20
• 6-yr grad. rate (16), fr retention (4)
• Faculty Resources 20
• Classes lt20 (6), classes gt50 (2), faculty
  compensation (7), faculty with terminal degrees
  (3), studentfaculty (1), percent full time
  faculty (1).
• Student Selectivity 15
• Entrance exam scores (6), high school class
  standing (5.25), freshmen acceptance rate
  (2.25), freshmen yield (1.5).
• Financial Resources 10
• Alumni Giving 5
• Graduation Rate Performance 5 (actual v.
  predicted)

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Top 200 Research Universities(The Center - U
Florida rankings)

• rank rank
• GSU public total
• Total research expenditure (20/46/83M) 36.5M
  114 157
• Federal research expenditure (10/21/45M) 14.3M
  124 176
• Endowment assets (198/198/424M) 75M ---
  ---
• Annual giving (20/22/44M) 9-12M --- ---
• National Academy members (1/1/3) 0 --- ---
• National faculty awards (3/4/6) 3 104 158
• Doctorates Awarded (52/75/130) 107 82 127
• Postdoctoral appointees (15/45/100) 45 98 142
• Median SAT score (1175/1175/1250) 1074 ---
  ---
• National Merit Achievement scholars (6/6/21) 1
  --- ---
• --- not in top 200 (needed for top 200/100
  public/100 total)
• see http//thecenter.ufl.edu

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GSU v. Top 25 public research universities(numbe
r of measures in top 25/top26-50)

• GSU UFL UGA IUPUI
• measures 25/26-50 public 0/0 9/0 2/5 1/4
• Total research expenditure (20/46/83M) 36.5M
  304M 237M 117M
• Federal research expenditure (10/21/45M) 14.3M
  122M 56M 61M
• Endowment assets (198/198/424M) 75M 681M 38
  8M 381M
• Annual giving (20/22/44M) 9-12M 164M 45M
  91M
• National Academy members (1/1/3) 0 17 8 5
• National faculty awards (3/4/6) 3 27 11 4
• Doctorates Awarded (52/75/130) 107 516 352 43
• Postdoctoral appointees (15/45/100) 45 344 179 25
  5
• Median SAT score (1175/1175/1250) 1074 1265 1195
  945
• National Merit Achievement scholars
  (6/6/21) 1 194 51 0
• --- not in top 200 (needed for top 200/100
  public/100 total)
• see http//thecenter.ufl.edu

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GSU v. Bottom of top 50 Public research
universities(number of measures in top26-50)

• GSU Temple UT USF
• measures 26-50 national 0 1 1 1
• Total research expenditure (20/46/83M) 36.5M
  68M 124M 101M
• Federal research expenditure (10/21/45M) 14.3M
  30M 42M 45M
• Endowment assets (198/198/424M) 75M 157M 23
  7M 258M
• Annual giving (20/22/44M) 9-12M 40M 41M
  48M
• National Academy members (1/1/3) 0 1 3 1
• National faculty awards (3/4/6) 3 5 9 6
• Doctorates Awarded (52/75/130) 107 263 131 286
• Postdoctoral appointees (15/45/100) 45 113 62 107
  
• Median SAT score (1175/1175/1250) 1074 1040 1084
  1100
• National Merit Achievement scholars
  (6/6/21) 1 lt6 35 19
• --- not in top 200 (needed for top 200/100
  public/100 total)
• see http//thecenter.ufl.edu