OU Student Profile Who are OU’s Students? June 7, 2006 Laura Schartman

Oakland University Undergraduate Students A Changing Student Population…

FTIAC Enrollment

Undergraduate enrollment by gender

Undergraduate ethnicity

Undergraduate enrollment: Geographic origin

Change in undergraduate age

Undergraduate enrollment: Full and part-time

Oakland University First Year Students What we learn from the CIRP Survey Cooperative Institutional Research Project conducted by the Higher Education Research Institute at the University of California at Los Angeles

Estimated parental income

Get job to pay expenses

Oakland University First year Students Typical OU 1 st year student: Busy Goal-oriented School is not all there is Come to college to…

Important reasons in deciding to go to college

Important reasons to select OU

Objectives Considered To Be Very Important Or Essential

Keep up to date with politics

Promote racial understanding

Racial discrimination not a problem

Drank beer/wine in high school

Oakland University First year Students Experiences

Oakland University First Year Students What we learn from the NSSE Survey National Survey of Student Engagement Center for Postsecondary Research School of Education, Indiana University Bloomington

% of Students Who Work More Than 15 Hours a Week Off Campus

% of Students Who Spend More Than 25 Hours Preparing for Class

Asked questions in class 1= never to 4 = very often

Discussed grades/assignments with faculty

NSSE

NSSE 2003 Satisfaction Questions

Oakland University First year Students Outcomes

First Year Retention Rate

First Year Retention & 6 Year Graduation

Graduation by 1 st -term Credits

6 Year Graduation Rates COM 101

Oakland University First year Students Questions?