Enrollment

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Enrollment Student Characteristics

• Jo Ann López
• Michelle Reis
• Sarah Wilcox

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Who Remembers

• Trivium Quadrivium?
• 7 basic subjects in liberal arts
• Grammar, rhetoric logic
• Music, arithmetic, geometry astronomy

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Who Remembers

• The typical student of the earlier centuries?
• Wealthy
• White
• Male

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Thank you!

• This concludes my portion of
• Student Characteristics
• Historical Enrollment Trends

Just Kidding!
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Renaissance Era

• Greek Literature Latin included
• Used in American colonial colleges for entrance
  requirements
• 17 proper age to enter college
• Knowledge in Greek Latin only prerequisite

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English Universities

• Oxford Cambridge 13th Century
• Modeled University of Paris curriculum
• Small poor in early years
• Taught 12 fellow graduate students

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English Universities

• Oxford Cambridge 15th Century
• First undergraduate class class
• Studied Greek, philosophy, logic divinity
• Became clergy, lettered people professional
  men

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English Universities

• Oxford Cambridge 19th 20th Century
• 1st Women students
• 1st academic hall for women opened
• 1st Women full-time Professor
• Agnes Headlam-Morely
• Number of Women students exceeds Male students
• November 1999

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American Colonial Colleges

• Variation of Oxford Cambridge structures
• Majority founded through variety of religious
  Protestant sects
• Religion as major component in students education

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American Colonial Colleges

• Mission of Religious-based Colleges
• Train learned clergymen
• Produce competent rulers, school teachers
  cultured men
• Chartering College of Philadelphia Mission
• 1st American non-denominational college
• Studies in Political Science, Law Government

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American Colonial Colleges

• Colleges had limited quantity of students
• Forced to search for private sources from elite
  few
• No set government to provide public funds
• Kings College had smallest enrollment
• Received funds from Crown
• Highest tuition rate
• Highest drop out rate

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American Colonial Colleges

• Change of Courses 18th Century
• Mathematics
• Entrance requirement
• Curriculum of 2nd 3rd year students
• Added to 1st year curriculum
• Christianity, ethics, trigonometry, geography
  philosophy added
• Greek Latin questioned

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American Colonial Colleges

• Change of Courses 18th Century
• Sciences
• Enrollment grew
• Stronger Focus in Science Component
• Agriculture, geology, zoology, chemistry, civil
  engineering metallurgy

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First State Institution of Higher Education

• University of Georgia 1785
• Developed on 40,000 acre land grant
• Strong foundation in agriculture other sciences
• Forbade exclusion of
• any person of any religious denomination from
  free equal liberty advantages of education

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First State Institution of Higher Education

• University of Georgia 19th Century
• Did away with training clergymen
• More training in law, medicine, farming,
  teaching, commerce, science public
  administration
• Average graduation age
• 19.8 21.2 years

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What is Matriculation?

• Websters Dictionary Definition

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History of Matriculation

• Class Rank
• Race
• Gender

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Common Man Movement

• American Revolution
• University of Virginia
• Morrill Act 1862
• Separate But Equal
• Brown v. Board of Education
• Civil Rights Movement 1960s
• Higher Education Act of 1965
• Citadel 1996

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What Higher Education Institutions Look At Now

• Standardized Test scores
• Grade Point Average
• Class Rank
• Writing Samples
• Letter of Recommendation
• Extra-Curricular Activities
• Advanced Placement Courses

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Grade Point Average

• Grade Inflation
• Meaningless GPA
• Solutions
• National Standards for all schools

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Standardized Test Scores

• What does SAT stand for?
• Test creators dont even know?
• What do standardized test scores prove?
• First year grades

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Problems of Standardized Test Scores

• Women scores lower, but have higher GPAs
• High Academic records denied because of low
  scores.
• Minority scores are lowest on tests

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Whats happening now?

• De-emphasize test scores
• 400 colleges doing so now
• California Proposition to drop SAT1

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Financial Aid

• Lions Share-Federal Government
• Tuition Increases this year
• 96 to 890
• Grant money decreases-Loan money increases-So
  What?-40-60
• Lower SES students affected

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Population Changes

• Baby Boomers
• Largest senior class-2008
• Middleburry College
• 5,400 applicants for 515 seats

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What To Expect

• Stagger admission dates
• Evening/Weekend classes
• Internet
• Television/Satellite

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The Evolving Student Demographic
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Student Profile Turn of the Century

• Young (18-24)
• Male
• From relatively wealthy families
• Females
• Teachers colleges or nursing schools

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Cooperative Institutional Research Program (CIRP)

• Founded in 1966
• Surveys for freshman to fill out (1966-1996)
• Alexander Astin notes 2 periods of great change
• Late 1960s through early 1970s
• Late 1980s to the present

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Late 60s through early 70s

• Students wanted more autonomy and rights
• Students changing ideas about marriage, family
  role of women
• Students becoming disengaged with politics
• Increase in student uncertainty, medical/health
  field, grade inflation

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The New Student

• Womens Civil Rights Movement
• By mid 1990s women exceeded men in every
  enrollment level, except doctoral studies
• Gender/ethnic disparities in admission test
  scores

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The New Student

• Better prepared
• Higher grades, better proficiency test scores
• More involvement in AP classes
• More core academic classes
• Higher standards for admission to institutions of
  higher education

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The New Student

• Aspirations
• Career Choices
• Length of time to graduate
• Influence of Work

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Labeled millennials, Internet gens, generation
Y, and baby boomers II, they have been described
as ambitious, precocious, stressed, indifferent,
wayward, techno-nerd, heterogeneous, politically
conservative, and sexually active
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The New Student Personal Insights

• Experimented with grown-up activity
• Generally knowledgeable
• Social connection and intimacy
• Technologically proficient
• Political affiliation is local only

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Future Students

• More racially ethnically diverse
• Better academically prepared
• More likely to enroll as new students with
  college credits
• More selective about institutional choice
• More service-oriented
• More likely to think in monetary terms when
  picking a major
• More likely to pursue advanced degrees
• Will be working more hours to offset rising
  college costs
• Will be assuming a greater level of financial
  debt
• Will be facing greater pressure to meet personal
  and academic challenges

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QUIZ!!!

• What program was founded in 1966 to conduct a
  national longitudinal study of college students?
• Name one characteristic of the late 1960s-early
  1970s student.
• Briefly describe the new student.

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THANK YOU!!!