Spring 2016 Enrollment and Completions Update Board of Trustees February Meeting, 2016

Spring 2016 Enrollments INDIANA UNIVERSITY 2 This view shows the total enrollments as compared to degree seeking counts. As you have heard before, the large growth in non-degree seeking students (i.e. primarily HS/ACP counts) is challenging to our focus on the trends in our core enrollments. Bloomington, East, and Kokomo continue a slight growth pattern with a number of records of note (bolded). IUPUI and the other regional campuses are facing some demographic challenges with “inputs”

Demographic Challenges INDIANA UNIVERSITY 3

Demographic Challenges INDIANA UNIVERSITY 4 Fall 2015 enrollment numbers for the public, 2-year schools in Indiana and our undergraduate transfer figures.

Online Education Over 25,000 students taking at least one online course – over 25% of all students and up 23% from last spring 117,000 credit hours of online enrollment – up 16% over last spring 7,500 taking fully online schedules; 4,400 in fully online programs Rankings Kelley BSBA #1; Kelley Direct #2 Overall online ranking moved from 72 to 39 out of 300+ programs INDIANA UNIVERSITY 5

Measures of Student Completions INDIANA UNIVERSITY 6 Interest in measuring the “success” of postsecondary institutions via student persistence and completion is not new but various groups (i.e. feds, states, professional associations, publishers/rankings) have been offering their own ideas about what’s important to establishing the validity and representativeness of these measures. The handout provides three of these common measures and methodologies. It’s important to realize that these very public measures are defined differently and represent different outcomes. A cohort model tracks a group of students from start to finish. Although institutions have long employed this methodology, the federal government codified this approach with the Student Right to Know Act in the 1990’s. Via the SRKA, the feds established/defined the cohort of students we need to track (full-time beginners in the fall or summer starts re-enrolled in the fall) and the “finish” lines (150% of program length – 6 years for BA/BS, 3 years for AA/AS, and 1.5 years for certificates). For the retention and graduation rates displayed here and in your handouts, the students were all enrolled in the fall semester, attempting full-time course/credit load (12 or more hours), and intended to get a bachelor’s degree. For our external reporting purposes, the 2009 cohort of beginner students is our “current” measure of completion success. To that end, it is important to keep in mind that these are historical views that represent a subset of our students. At IU Bloomington, this measure covers nearly all the new beginners, but at the regional campuses 75-80% of new beginners start out at the full-time level and are included in this measure. If we add in new transfer students in the fall, this measure becomes less representative of our completion mission. The Student Achievement Measure is a new completions view based upon the collaborative work of several institutional associations. It is an attempt to broaden both who is tracked (beginners and transfers; bachelors or associate seekers) and also what is considered as a successful outcome at different points in time. SAM allows institutions to match their cohort data with the Clearinghouse to gauge transfer activity and degrees.

4 & 6 Year Graduation Rates - Regionals INDIANA UNIVERSITY 7

4 & 6 Year Graduation Rates – BL & IUPUI INDIANA UNIVERSITY 8

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