Dr. Cochran then introduced data from the Washington Monthly Rankings. This survey focuses on data considered reliable and relevant to the majority of students and policy makers at state and federal levels. Many colleges who do poorly on U.S. News and World rankings, do well on Washington Monthly rankings and vice versa. Data is pulled from IPEDS, which is our reported numbers to the federal government. Washington Monthly uses four categories as well: National Institutions, National Liberal Arts Institutions, Masters Institutions, and Bachelors Institutions. CWU falls into the masters institutions, which evaluates institutions based on 32 factors primarily focusing on social mobility, research, and service. In public and private universities, CWU ranked 74/603, and in public universities only, CWU ranked 43/238. The Economic Mobility Index (EMI) rates institutions on the value they provide based on proportion of lower-income students enrolled. Institutions are evaluated based on ROI, primarily price-to-earnings premium. EMI uses three categories: public institutions, private institutions, and for-profit institutions. CWU falls into the public institutions and ranked 154/1320 in public and private institutions. CWU ranked 116-484 in public only institutions.
Meeting adjourned at 11:45 a.m.
Trustees had lunch with students in the Student Union Recreation Center. No business was conducted.
Chair Nellams reconvened the board work session in Wellington Event Center at 1:35 p.m.
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Data and Plan President Wohlpart gave a brief summary on retention rates from 2010-2020 and from 2020-2021. Our retention rates have been going down, but there has been some slight fluctuation the last five years. He then gave an update on four- and six-year graduation rates. Four-year graduation data is good to have, but not considered part of the U.S. News rankings. They use six-year graduation data. Jonathon Henderson then reported on student attrition. He summarized CWU student attrition by ethnicity/race of first year, full-time students. The data shows that these students primarily enrolled elsewhere. President Wohlpart reported that everyone is focused on equity, diversity, and inclusion initiatives with regard to student recruitment, retention and success. Some of our general recruitment activities include: • Prioritizing diversity related recruitment events • Enhancing Spanish language track in our Wildcat Preview Days • Adding Spanish language recruitment publications • Highlighting diversity in our recruitment publications and marketing efforts CWU’s Yakima Valley recruitment activities include: • Embedding admissions counselors in Yakima high schools and at our Yakima Center • Attending family nights and FAFSA/WASFA nights • Providing on-the-spot admissions events • Enhancing the Guaranteed Admissions Program • Working closely with our community-based organization partners
5 Board of Trustees Minutes October 20-21, 2022
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