Dear Colleagues,
Freshman enrollment in Arts and Sciences is up for the first time in over 10 years! Thank you for the great job you did to recruit students!
What we did in combination with President Linton’s community outreach, I believe, led to the increase. As a college, we overhauled our recruiting strategy. This included reimagining our Campus Visits, developing Experience Days for prospective students, personalizing our communication with prospective students, and more effectively using and targeting college-level scholarships.
We still have a ways to go to completely implement this strategy, and we are still learning what is most effective, but we are on our way to continuing this trend. We now would also like to do the same thing with transfer students. Thank you again for your help in this effort!
This semester has been busy so far and will continue to be. Thank you, everyone, for your participation in developing a new set of college requirements! This is the first time they have been changed in over 30 years.
Next, we will develop a college workload policy, now required by KBOR. We also have a new program review policy to implement, a college strategic plan to finish, new engagement and teaching policies to start discussing, and several new strategic investment opportunities surrounding bioprocessing, water, rural education, advanced analytics and others that many of us can participate in. We will put out information about these as soon as we can.
ArtSci Enrollment Numbers
Headcount down 112 from last year to 3,965 (-2.7%)
(University up 0.1% to 19,745)
First-time freshmen up 122 from last year to 757 (+19.2%)
(University up 9% to 3,193 | 6.8% in-state, 15.1% out-of-state)
First-time transfers down 7 from last year to 257 (-2.7%)
(University up 2.8% to 1,292)