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

2. Oakland University Undergraduate Students A Changing Student Population…

3. FTIAC Enrollment

4. Undergraduate enrollment by gender

5. Undergraduate ethnicity

6. Undergraduate enrollment: Geographic origin

7. Change in undergraduate age

8. Undergraduate enrollment: Full and part-time

9. 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

10. Estimated parental income

11. Get job to pay expenses

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

13. Important reasons in deciding to go to college

14. Important reasons to select OU

15. Objectives Considered To Be Very Important Or Essential

16. Keep up to date with politics

17. Promote racial understanding

18. Racial discrimination not a problem

19. Drank beer/wine in high school

20. Oakland University First year Students Experiences

21. 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

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

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

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

25. Discussed grades/assignments with faculty

26. NSSE

29. NSSE 2003 Satisfaction Questions

30. Oakland University First year Students Outcomes

31. First Year Retention Rate

32. First Year Retention & 6 Year Graduation

33. Graduation by 1 st -term Credits

34. 6 Year Graduation Rates COM 101

35. Oakland University First year Students Questions?