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Enrollment Planning

Enrollment Planning: Fall 2012 Wrap-Up & Spring 2013


Fall: We intentionally raised Fall headcount, gaining about $3m in fee revenue and offsetting some budget cuts. Average unit load reduced but was still second highest in campus history. Happily, there was no widespread increase in unmet course needs. Thanks to Senate action on GE, historic GE bottlenecks improved markedly.


Spring: The Chancellor Office-mandated closure to Spring 2013 admissions will cause a larger than usual Fall-Spring decline in enrollment and budget limitations will require that class offerings reflect the lower enrollment level. College FTES targets will be posted soon after Fall Census. We will use unit caps for Spring but move from 13 directly to 18 units, with the 18 unit cap in place well in advance of Spring semester. More.

 

Fall 2012 Enrollment Planning Update

 

As you know, we implemented a 13 unit enrollment limit for Fall 2012 to ensure that all students had access to courses despite a very challenging budget. We then increased the enrollment limit to 16 units on August 4. This process has been very successful in ensuring that new students were able to get adequate schedules during summer registration.

Our student headcount is very much on target. However, FTE is below target in several colleges. As a result, we are increasing the enrollment limit to 18 units to allow students to register in existing course sections that have not yet reached capacity. Students will receive information from Lynn Mahoney about this in a day or so. More.

 

Fall 2012/Spring 2013 Enrollment Planning Update

 

Updated Fall 2012 New Student Projections

  • Freshman - 4,230; up from 3,987 in Fall 2011
  • Transfers - 4,000; up from 2,685 in Fall 2011
  • Grads/Postbaccs - 1,600; guess; too early to be sure; trend is down from 1,799 in Fall 2011

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Enrollment Priorities

  • Courses students need immediately to meet graduation requirements.
  • In fall and spring terms, full schedules of classes for recently admitted first-time freshmen.
  • Major, General Education, prerequisite and service courses that students need to make progress to degree with pent up unmet demand and greater than 95% fill rate in recent prior terms.
  • Other high demand major, General Education, and service courses that students need to make progress to degree that are high demand (80-95% fill rate in recent prior terms).
  • Other courses that students need to make progress to degree as resources permit.