Goal 5 – Provide opportunities where every learner can thrive and grow in a supportive environment. The strategies that will be used to meet this goal include: • Create and deploy a “Students First Center” model of delivering key enrollment services. • Design and deliver a comprehensive first-year experience program. • Develop and deliver continuous student life engagement activities and programs. Goal 6 – All undergraduate program graduates will be afforded opportunities for experiential learning leading to post-graduation success. The strategies that will be used to meet this goal include: • Design and deliver strategic and developmental high impact practices specific to each year of enrollment. • Leverage career services support across all undergraduate years and deliver programming that is career minded. • Build and sustain partnerships with local, regional, and global employers for internships and job pipelines. Formal relationships with employers – including nonprofit and public-sector partners – expand access to relevant, career-aligned opportunities and help CWU stay responsive to workforce needs. Comments from the Board: • Trustee Gillis would like to have an update on this at every meeting. • Trustee Conner stated that all CWU programs and departments should be connected to the SEM plan. • Trustee Charbonneau stated that we need to do everything in our power to increase the four- year graduation rate. Thirty-three percent is not good. We need to look at all options to make sure students progress through their programs. We need to think through things differently regarding the master schedule. • Vice Chair Hensler added that the theme is to reduce barriers for students and improve efficiencies in the university to help students get through their programs. AVP Dang then gave an update on enrollment. He explained the enrollment timeline by stage: inquiry, applicant, admit, confirm, and enroll and added that this is an 18-month process that starts in March each year. Our new student orientation model has changed this year, so we are a little behind in our yield rate for fall compared to this time last year. This should pick up once the remaining new student orientations are completed. As of July 23, our FTIC enrollment confirmations have exceeded our goal. The goal for Fall 2025 was 2100 and confirmations received so far are 2140. We face FTIC enrollment challenges due to budget cuts in school districts, uncertainty with federally funded programs like TriO, CAMP, etc. and declining K-12 enrollments in Washington state. Some opportunities that we have include College in the High School, Running Start, Early Outreach pipelines, retention and graduation rates, on the spot admissions events, and three-year degrees. Transfer enrollment challenges are mainly due to the economy, struggling rural campuses, uncertainty with federally funded programs, and the transfer pipeline has changed. A major opportunity we have with transfer enrollment is partnering with Yakima Valley College to develop a seamless transfer process, which includes a unified admissions application, admission to both institutions, and data sharing between institutions to help students stay on track.
8 Board of Trustees Minutes July 24-25, 2025
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