Town Hall Meeting

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Town Hall Meeting

• Campus
• Enrollment

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Topics to be Discussed

• What We Are Doing
• Enrollment Target Projections
• Budget Impact
• Plans to Address Enrollment

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What We Are Doing

• Collaborative Efforts
• Deans Letters sent to new applicants/new admits
• CSU Long Beach list of eligible applicants
  contacted by AA and SA (3355)
• HDC Message Boards on 405 and 91 Fwys
• Ran a 4-page color insert in Daily Breeze

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• Academic Affairs Initiatives
• Campus Signage for Summer and Fall
• Break Tape played during Extended Education
  televised programs
• Email sent to all students regarding course
  availability
• Called Spring 2005 undergraduates who had not yet
  enrolled for Fall 2005
• Established a One Step Closer hotline

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• Student Affairs Initiatives
• Telecounselors called incomplete applicants and
  all admits from March thru August
• Ran ads Radio, Newspapers, Cable TV, and Movie
  Theaters
• Evening with Dominguez Hills sessions
• Presidential Breakfast for Scholarship recipients
• Wrote and received grant to print financial
  materials in Spanish

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Original Target for CY2005-06

• FTES Headcount
• Summer 2005 1,400 4,000
• Fall 2005 8,923 13,209
• Spring 2006 8,663 12,651
• CY Annualized 9,493 14,930
• (Total FTES each term divided by 2)

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Best Case Projections

• FTES Headcount
• Summer 2005 1,260 3,505
• Fall 2005 8,000 11,840
• Spring 2006 7,760 11,330
• CY Annualized 8,510 13,337
• (Total FTES each term divided by 2)
• Actual Enrollment

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Budget ImpactFee Shortfall

• FTES Achieved Fee Shortfall
• 8,510 (10.4 below target) 3,446,398
• Assumes no reduction from the Chancellors Office

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Funding of Fee Shortfall

• Funding Sources
  Amount
• UBC Set Aside 608,466
• Fee Mix Set Aside 450,000
• Campus Reserves 600,000
• HDC Revenues through 05/06
  1,215,877
• 1 Budget Reduction All Divisions
  572,055
• Needed to fund shortfall at 8,510 3,446,398
• Funding Sources Are One-Time Only

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Why The Drop In Enrollment?

• Teacher Education
• Academic Menu
• Image
• Fee Increases
• Service to Students
• Retention
• Student Choices

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Plans To Address Enrollment

• New academic undergraduate programs
• BA Criminal Justice (Fall 2005)
• BS Sports, Entertainment, Hospitality
  Management (2006-07)
• BA Child Adolescent Development (2007-08)
• BS Exercise Science (2007-08)

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• Undergraduate Program Roadmaps Graduate Program
  Advisement Flatsheets (Available end of October)
• SG4 Community Survey (Preliminary results
  available January 2006)
• Increase Efforts to Improve Retention Rates (Fall
  2005)
• Graduate Recruitment Plan (Fall 2005)

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• Undergraduate Recruitment Action Plan (Fall 2005)
• Retain Public Relations Firm to Build the Campus
  Image.
• Retain External Evaluator to Review our
  Institutional Recruitment Process.

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Questions and Answers