Contracts with Best Western and Holiday Inn for student housing
Contract with Wild Health LLC testing. This in addition to the Quest Diagnostics contract previously approved. Wild Health will do the on-site testing and Quest will be a backup.
New Title IX Guidelines (a new mandatory training on this will be coming soon)
Annual standing line of credit raised to $5 million. According to the Chief Financial Officer, this is not needed now, but is being done as a precaution.
The board also received the following informational items:
Pre-College Academy 2019 Class
32 PCA students (97%) went on to earn a 2.0 or greater GPA 29 PCA students (88%) earned a 3.0 or greater GPA 12 PCA students (36%) earned a 4.0 GPA
Grades Distribution
Comparing Spring and Summer 2020 (with the campus closing) to Spring 2019, the percentage of students earning passing grades was 75.7% for 2020, compared to 79.0% in 2019. “Other Grades” (Incomplete, Withdrawal, etc.) went up by 2%. So, overall, student grades do not appear to have suffered from the emergency transition.
Fall to Fall Persistence
FreshmanSophomoreJuniorSeniorTotalReturn
Fall 2015 to Fall 201653%78%84%42%60%
Fall 2016 to Fall 201756%76%76%36%56%
Fall 2017 to Fall 201853%72%77%37%56%
Fall 2018 to Fall 201958%72%75%31%55%
Fall 2019 to Fall 202071%79%73%28%64%
Regent Moffett noted that the decrease in senior return rate is a good thing because it means more students graduated.
Projected Graduation Rates
Cohort entering201420152016
Total Cohort277174161
4-yr Graduation Rate16%20%24%
5-yr Graduation Rate28%36%35%
6-yr Graduation Rate33%37%45%
Enrollment
Student TypeFall 2020
Continuing1066
First Time Freshman578
High School Student9
New Graduate Student37
Pre-College Academy1
Readmit19
Special, non-degree seeking4
Transfer100
Grand Total1814
Enrollment Comparison