Baccalaureate Enrollment Growth and Capacity

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Baccalaureate Enrollment Growth and Capacity

• CC Baccalaureate Association
• March 2005
• Elise Erickson, Bellevue Community College
• Jean Floten, Bellevue Community College
• Jan Yoshiwara, Washington State Board for
  Community and Technical Colleges

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Agenda

• Study purpose and design
• Baccalaureate demand to 2010 maintenance level
  and policy increases
• Plans to meet demand
• Features of options location, cost, students
  served
• Conclusions from survey and college interviews
• Features of delivery options explored
• Next steps

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Universities and CTCs Share Baccalaureate Mission

• Shared mission
• CTCs are start for more than 40 of graduates
• Public universities award 3 out of 4 bachelors
  degrees
• Public higher education primary providers

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Baccalaureate Capacity Study

• How much to 2010
• Where needed
• What fields
• What options
• Cost to state
• Cost to students

• Key options or combination of options by region
• Work with public universities on enrollment
  planning model

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Basis of Joint Forecast

• Maintains market share by sector, including
  private universities
• Keeps pace with population growth
• Addresses existing access gaps regions and
  types of students currently underserved

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FTE Demand by Type to 2010

• Population driven
• Maintain opportunity as population grows
• Policy driven
• Pathways for technical associate degree grads
• Low regional access
• ¾ of demand at junior/senior level
• Consistent with OFM, HECB Master Plan

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If CTC and University Plans are Funded Enrollment
and Demand Match to 2010

• Meets 78 of demand

- Southwest, Snohomish - Technical degree
pathways
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Pathways Considered to Meet Demand

• Public baccalaureate institutions
• University branch campuses
• Collocated university centers
• CTC bachelors degrees

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Pathways Considered to Meet Demand

• Public baccalaureate institutions
• University branch campuses
• Collocated university centers
• CTC bachelors degrees

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Location Matters

• Regional differences in access
• 60 of university freshmen attend outside home
  region
• 60 of CTC transfers attend university close to
  home

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Pathways Serve Different Students
Broader spectrum of population served through
transfer pathway

• Two-thirds of transfer students first in families
  to go to earn bachelors degrees
• More African American, Native American and Latino
  students use transfer path
• More older students use transfer, especially at
  University Centers and University branch campuses

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Fiscal Considerations for Baccalaureate Pathways

• Comparison based on recent legislative
  appropriations for growth FTEs
• Current pathways
• 20,100 to 24,000 over four years
• Range is narrow except for branch campuses
• Examining costs for new pathways
• Four year branch campuses
• University centers
• CTC bachelors degrees

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Costs Vary More Widely for Students

• Used 2005 tuition rates
• Wider range in cost to students
• 10,900 CTC transfer to regional university
• 18,100 4 years at research university
• Diversity of choices useful from affordability
  perspective

Operating fee only
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What Other Colleges Discovered
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Critical Shortage of BA Opportunity

• Programs dont exist to meet business needs
• Students cant move to where the colleges are
• Existing colleges dont have program capacity

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Fulfilling the Community College Mission

• Focus on community needs
• Workforce preparation
• Emphasis on teaching
• Open door policy
• A.A. is basis of program
• Address needs not met by universities

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How Colleges Chose Their B.A. Programs

• Already offer a strong 2-year program
• Qualified faculty for upper division courses
• Program is in high demand
• Education, nursing, business, IT management

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Other Issues

• Partnerships with universities didnt work
• Maintain focus on workforce programs
• Degrees are accepted by all

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Faculty Considerations

• Terminal degree faculty for program
• Focus is on students/teaching
• Technical faculty can cost more
• Educational stipends level the field

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Its Worth the Price

• Tuition set by Higher Education Board
• Financial challenges
• Emotional challenges

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Public Baccalaureate Institutions

• Well established infrastructure, programs,
  services, faculty expertise
• Comprehensive offerings
• Address sustained demand
• Strength is serving traditional, mobile, young
  adults

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University Branch Campuses

• Located in regions with high population growth
  and unmet demand for upper division capacity
• Meet sustained, long-term needs of regions
• Programs focused on local needs, but limited mix
  due to small campuses
• Higher cost proposed for both upper division and
  lower division

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University Centers Collocated on CTC Campuses

• Builds on CTC infrastructure efficient use of
  services, facilities
• Programs driven by community needs
• Lower cost to students
• Serve diversity of the community
• Local governance matters
• Issues program mix and stability

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Community and Technical College Baccalaureate
Degrees

• Builds on CTC infrastructure, services
• Programs driven by community needs
• Lower cost to students
• Serve the diversity of the community
• Local control
• Institutional costs can be managed with regional
  university funding levels and regional university
  tuition rates

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Community and Technical College Baccalaureate
Degrees

• Accreditation requirements for college role and
  mission, faculty credentials, scholarship can be
  accommodated. Library holdings would have to be
  expanded.
• Issues CTCs not chartered to offer bachelors
  degrees, substantial start up work required

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Conclusions

• Strong demand for junior access
• Meeting the demand requires growth in all
  pathways to the baccalaureate
• Build on current infrastructure
  baccalaureates, branch campuses, university
  centers, CTCs
• More than ¾ of 2010 projected demand met IF
  enrollment requests are funded

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Conclusions

• Location matters, especially for transfer
  students
• Serving the diversity of students requires
  diversity of pathways to the bachelors degree
• University Centers are an effective way to
  distribute access across the state
• CTCs - CTC bachelors degrees are feasible option

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Next Steps

• Upper division growth for universities, branch
  campuses
• Funding for University Centers
• SBCTC and legislative authorization for CTC
  bachelors degrees
• HECB process for university centers and CTC
  bachelors degrees