undergraduate students from 21.2% in Fall 2018 to 27.5% by 2024.
Theme: Create a shared definition of diversity, inclusion, and opportunity.
Agreed. Definitions based on desired institutional behaviors have been added under Goal #2.
Theme: The SE Plan could benefit from additional outreach/discussion forums about the SE Plan: • Open Forum for students • Outreach to Equity and Service Council • Outreach to student clubs and organizations • Outreach to the students in the Diversity and Equity Center (DEC) and the Center for
Leadership and Community Engagement (CLCE) • Outreach to college student advisory boards •
That is an excellent suggestion. In the coming year, representatives from Enrollment Management will meet with student groups to solicit their ideas to include in the Implementation and Assessment Plan, especially their ideas for improving student services.
Theme: Welcoming URM students to campus is both good for a campus and the right thing to do. I’m concerned that it’s disingenuous to make that projection if we don’t have the high touch support required to retain those students—which has an added cost. From my understanding of the need to grow our student population is that it’s required to pay the bills of running this institution. Adding high touch support systems are an expense. I fear that those supports will not be added, or will be added too late to adequately support these students, as a financial saving to the university but potentially at the detriment of these students. Welcoming traditionally underrepresented and first generation students is core to CWU’s mission and vision. As seen in the CWU Fiscal 2019 Budget Report six year rolling forecasts (page 24), the fall 2024 enrollment target of 14,205 undergraduates will generate tuition revenue beyond what is needed to just pay the bills. Those funds can be invested in academic programs and student support services, even while meeting budgetary requirements for increasing wage and benefit expenses.
PERSISTENCE, PROGRESSION, AND GRADUATION Topics/issues associated with achieving the SE Plan Goal #3: • Increase the first-time, full-time retention rate from 70% (2017 cohort) to 78% by Fall 2024 (2023 cohort). :
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