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Strategic Plan Update November 2003
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Who Are Our Students?

• 9,129 Undergraduate and Graduate Students
• Increase of 3 over Fall 2003
• 92 Indiana Residents
• 74 First Generation in College
• 57 Female
• 48 Part-time
• 30 Minority

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Purdue Calumet Strategic Vision

• Student Success
• Retain and graduate more students
• Preferred for the Quality of our Programs
• Beyond convenience
• Economic Development
• Place the resources of the university at the
  service of regional economic development

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Plans for Future Growth

• Hammond Campus
• 9,000 to 10,500 students
• Learning Center
• 1st Phase 750-1,500 students
• Target 2,000 students
• Target Learning Center Fall 2005

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Student SuccessWhat We Have Learned

• Persistent Students
• Stay enrolled every semester
• Attend summer courses
• Moderate work schedules
• Rarely drop a class
• Have a solid academic
  plan of study

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Student SuccessWhat We Are Doing

• New student orientation
• 300 in Fall 2003
• Freshman seminars
• 488 of 1,624 in Fall 2003
• Supplemental instruction
• 30 sections in Fall 2003
• Undergraduate Research

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Student SuccessWhat We Are Doing

• Reorganizing University Division to better
  prepare students from K-12 and community colleges

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Student SuccessWhat We Are Doing

• Student Employment
• Work study and on-campus jobs
• Undergraduate research
• Total for campus
• 28 over target of 309,000

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Student SuccessWhat We Are Doing

• Increase financial support
• Scholarship funds are 78 toward target of
  784,000

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Student SuccessWhat We Are Doing

• Student Housing
• To define Purdue Calumet as a regional university
• To improve student retention
• To establish campus life
• Phase 1
• 384 beds

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Student SuccessWhat We Are Doing

• Student success measured by
• Fall to fall retention of freshmen to
  sophomore
• Current 62
• (.2 increase)
• Target 72
• 6-year graduation rate
• Current 21
• (5.5 increase)
• Target 32

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Program Quality
Types of DegreesAwarded 2002-2003
Masters Degrees16
AssociateDegrees25
PUC Degrees Awarded 1993-2003
BaccalaureateDegrees59
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New Majors

• B.A. in Family Studies and Human Development
  (2002-2003)
• A.S./B.S. Computer Graphics Technology
  (2002-2003)
• B.A. in Business (2002-2003)
• All articulate with the Community College of
  Indiana
• Target 2 additional new programs by 2006

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Program QualityWhat We Are Doing

• The learning environment must be as
  up-to-date as the employment environment
• Chemistry labs Target
  Renovation completed Fall 2003
• Gyte Science Tower
• Community advisory boards recommend new
  program directions

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Program QualityWhat We Are Doing

• Develop competitive salaries for faculty and
  staff Current 94.1 of mean for faculty
  (.3 increase)
• Target Mean for peer institutions for faculty
  
• Increase percentage of full-time instructors
  Current 58 in 2001
• (3 increase)
• Target 84 in 2006

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Economic DevelopmentWhat We Have Learned
Indiana needs more college graduates Percen
tage of the Population over 25 withBaccalaureate
Degree or Better, 2000
UnitedStates
Indiana
Lake PorterCounties
25.2
UnitedStates
18.4
17.7
25.2
Value for Lake and Porter Counties estimated
from historical data.
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Economic DevelopmentWhat We Have Learned
Survey of 2002 Graduates
Lake PorterCounties
Indiana
UnitedStates
18.4
17.7
.Center for Career Leadership Development.
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Economic DevelopmentWhat We Are Doing

• Purdue Northwest Indiana Technology Park
• Incubator for high technology business creation
• Federal funding
• Based on West Lafayette model
• Purdue commitment to northwest Indiana

Construction begins Fall 2003
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Economic DevelopmentWhat We Are Doing

• Entrepreneurship Center
• Focus on small businesses at least 3 years old
• Fosters business expansion
• Creates a network and support system
• In partnership with Hammond Development
  Corporation

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Economic DevelopmentWhat We Are Doing

• Partnerships
• Steel Industry
• Chen Zhou (21st Century Fund)
• Harvey Abramowitz (Iron and Steel Professor)
• City of Hammond
• Technology corridor partnership with
  School of Management
• Office of East/West Relationships
  International Business Development

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Economic DevelopmentWhat We Are Doing

• The Indiana Water Institute
• Critical issue for Northwest Indiana
• Water access
• Water quality
• Water availability
• Water security
• Purdue University Calumet Resources
• Faculty professional expertise
• Sea Grant
• Facilities Plans-Gyte Science Tower

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Strategic Plan Update November 2003