Breakout Session: Recruitment and Admissions
Facilitators: Dr. Janis Dietz and Lynn Stanton-Riggs
The action items that came out of the session were:

1. International admissions
   1. Begin specific recruiting effort to bring international student population back to where it was in the early 90s(7-9%)
      Give a mandate to the Faculty Senate to request this. These are usually full-pay students and many of them are highly qualified.
   2. get a comparison with comparative schools on their international student body.
   3. define diversity more broadly than minority students.
   4. put teeth into the English testing process.
   5. prioritize the admissions process for these students, or at least give it the same attention that all students get.
   6. require English proficiency for BCA students.
2. Raise the bottom of the student admits.
   1. Require minimum of 2.3 GPA and 750 SAT for PEP students (can replace with international students).
   2. Put teeth into the process we already have. The admissions committee should use the existing criteria to set policy and do less file review
3. Recruitment
   1. Target students in a larger geographic area.
   2. Continue with the recruiting fair and enlist faculty support. Many faculty have volunteered to visit schools but there has been no follow-up.
   3. When faculty agree to attend sessions, the admissions department should follow-up with them in a more professional manner than having a student call the week of the event for the first time.

Stats from Steve Mack

• Fall 1999 retention rate: 81% for first-time freshman.(vs 73% for 1991 and 69% for 1992)
• Real key appears to have been retention after two years. (56%) for 1991 and 55% for 1992)
• Academic probation rules have been tightened up.
• Demonstrable grade inflation in high school.
• If ULV can improve overall quality of incoming students as well as intervene in needed ways, retention and graduate rates should go up.
• High school GPA and SAT scores do correlate strongly with retention, graduation, and academic success.
• Getting in better students tends to cost more in terms of merit grants
• Team of Admissions, Financial Aid, and IR have been focusing on moving the mean of the bell curve toward the B plus.
• Admissions is admitting fewer truly academically risky students on probation and trying to raise the minimum GPA and SAT combination.
• How can faculty help in developing well-though out, realistic efforts to improve incoming student academic quality?

	pollockd@ulv.edu Last Modified: Friday, 30-Jan-2004 10:14:58 PST