Overview
This workgroup is tasked with developing data metric points and assessment mechanisms for all units in the Center for Global Engagement (CGE).
Team members | |
Due Date | |
Retrospective period |
Action Items:
Deliverables
Executive Summary of broad recruitment needs and blockers.
Competitive Advantages
Problems
Core Recommendations
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Point
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Why
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Needs
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A functional approach to English proficiency conditional admission that includes integration into the graduate and undergraduate application process.
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Targeted recruitment of undergraduates into PhD and Masters programs from public regional comprehensive state universities.
Data Definitions
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Term
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Definition
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Data Point
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International Student
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A non-citizen pursuing a program of study at UTK.
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SPBPERS_CITZ_CODE = 2 (OIRA agree?)
GORVISA_VTYP_CODE = Not Null (OIRA agree?)
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Study Abroad Student
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Any enrolled UTK student studying for credit at an international institution?
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Banner = history enrolled in placeholder course
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International Partnership
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Any formal agreement between UTK and another institution that has been vetted and signed by Procurement.
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Retention
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What is UTKs definition? OIRA should know? Will it work for our purposes?
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International Employee
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A non-citizen on payroll
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Report from HR
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International Visitor
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A non-citizen engaged in research, teaching, consulting, etc. who is not a student and is not on payroll
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Report from SEVIS plus report from sunapsis of Fulbright and B status visitors
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Business Travelers Abroad
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Business, conference, and non-credit travel abroad
Data Metrics
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Name of Metric
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Data Point
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Frequency
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Fields
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System
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Unit
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Retention rate of international students by semester of intake.
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Retention by SAAADMS admit
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Fall, Spring, Summer I + II
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?
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?
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ISSS; I House
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Number of institutions connected through immigration sponsorship
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How many institutions are connected to UTK through J Exchange Visitor and H1-b sponsorship.
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Annual
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Institution, Type of Activity
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SUNAPSIS
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ISSS
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Number of countries connected through immigration sponsorship
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How many countries are connected to UTK through J Exchange Visitor and H1-b sponsorship
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Annual
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Institution, Type of Activity, Country of Institution
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SUNAPSIS
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ISSS
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Number of top 100 ranked universities as per the Times Higher Education World University Ranking
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How many top 100 institutions are connected to UTK through J Exchange Visitor and H1-b sponsorship
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Annual
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Institution, Type of Activity, Country of Institution, Times Higher Education World University Ranking
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SUNAPSIS
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ISSS
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Economic impact of international students at UTK for 2nd Congressional District
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Dollar value of international students at UTK
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Annual
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Dollar value
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NAFSA Economic Value Report
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ISSS
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Number of jobs created by international students at UTK for 2nd Congressional District
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Number of jobs created
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Annual
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Jobs created
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NAFSA Economic Value Report
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ISSS
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Number of post-docs by college
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Number of post docs in each college
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Fall and Spring
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Post-Doc by College
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HR Report
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ISSS
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Number of International Faculty, Staff, and Researches by college
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Number in each college
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Fall and Spring
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HR Report
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ISSS
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Grant dollars generated per year
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by college
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GRO
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Existing partnerships per year
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by college
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GRO
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Incidents abroad per year
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Annual
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GRO
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Number of students studying abroad per academic year
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Annual
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Term, level, demographics, FTIC, where
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?
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PAO
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Number of business travelers abroad per year
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Annual
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Traveler, type of activity, where, by college
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GRO
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Enrolled international students by college
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Fall and Spring
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ISSS
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Student participants in International House programming
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Number of students who engaged in I House programming through Event Pass
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Annual
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Unique student occurrences, by college, number of engagements, by date of event
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Event Pass
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I House
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Number of faculty-led program by college
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Annual
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Number of international students provided cultural adjustment, on-boarding, and orientation support by college.
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Oriented students
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Fall and Spring
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SUNAPSIS
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I House; ISSS
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Scholarships awarded by CGE
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Annual
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by college, number, amount, per year
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GRO, ISSS, PAO
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Grant awards by CGE
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Annual
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by college, number, amount, per year
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GRO, PAO
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Number of students transferred to UT by semester by college
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Em is going to send a list.
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Annual
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by college, number, by year
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ELI
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Number of conditional admits to ELI by college
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Find the data point. Probably a SAAADMS admit type? Check Slate as well.
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Annual
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ELI
UT Strategic Plan Matrix
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Strategic Goal
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Objective
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Cultivating the Volunteer Experience
Demonstrate leadership in providing high-quality educational opportunities for people at every stage of life, whenever and wherever they seek to learn.
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Conducting Research that Makes Life & Lives Better
Advance the frontiers of knowledge to create a more just, prosperous, and sustainable future through world-class research, scholarship, and creative work.
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Ensuring a Culture Where Vol is a Verb
Develop and sustain a nurturing university culture where diversity and community are enduring sources of strength.
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Making Ourselves Nimble & Adaptable
Empower and sustain a culture of collaboration, agility, and innovation throughout the university.
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Embodying the Modern R1, Land-Grant University
Connect with every Tennessean and with communities around the world, inspiring future Volunteers to join our diverse community.
ISSS Goals
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ISSS Goal
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Data Metrics
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UT Strategic Goal
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UT Objective
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Support the retention of international undergraduate and graduate students through effective and responsive, advising pertaining to immigration status, regulatory updates, work authorization, and program completion options.
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Retention rate of international students by semester of intake.
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Ensuring a Culture Where Vol is a Verb
Develop and sustain a nurturing university culture where diversity and community are enduring sources of strength.
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Implement structures and practices that attract and retain a diverse community of faculty, staff, and students and that support a culture where everyone matters and belongs.
Identify and remedy structural impediments to recruiting and retaining students and employees from diverse populations, including financial, social, and logistical impediments.
Develop and implement cultural adjustment support through an orientation process that ameliorates the initial difficulties of transitioning to a work, study, or research role at the University of Tennessee.
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Retention rate of international students by semester of intake.
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Conducting Research that Makes Life & Lives Better
Advance the frontiers of knowledge to create a more just, prosperous, and sustainable future through world-class research, scholarship, and creative work.
Ensuring a Culture Where Vol is a Verb
Develop and sustain a nurturing university culture where diversity and community are enduring sources of strength.
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Strengthen the impact and reputation of our research, scholarship, and creative activities.
Increase the quantity of influential scholarly outputs and outcomes created by our research community.
Invest in state-of-the-art research infrastructure and frameworks to ensure that our researchers, scholars, and creatives continue to work at the knowledge frontier.
Foster university-wide and external partner enabled networking and ideation opportunities for groups with shared interests.
Provide a world-class multidisciplinary research training experience to a diverse community of undergraduates, graduate students, and postdoctoral scholars.
Implement structures and practices that attract and retain a diverse community of faculty, staff, and students and that support a culture where everyone matters and belongs.
Identify and remedy structural impediments to recruiting and retaining students and employees from diverse populations, including financial, social, and logistical impediments
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Support the retention, campus engagement, and recruitment of international students and scholars at the University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture (UTIA) through targeted outreach and advisement that provides a support network and a tangible connection to the University of Tennessee campus community.
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Making Ourselves Nimble & Adaptable
Empower and sustain a culture of collaboration, agility, and innovation throughout the university.
Conducting Research that Makes Life & Lives Better
Advance the frontiers of knowledge to create a more just, prosperous, and sustainable future through world-class research, scholarship, and creative work.
Ensuring a Culture Where Vol is a Verb
Develop and sustain a nurturing university culture where diversity and community are enduring sources of strength.
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Enhance a campus-wide culture of innovation and collaboration at all levels.
Make collaboration and innovation a priority in every campus unit so that processes and procedures are more meaningful, effective, and efficient.
Invest in physical spaces that enable innovation and collaboration; re-envision how we use office spaces to enhance collaboration both across campus and between campus and external partners.
Adapt current structures and systems to foster identity and collaboration while supporting innovation.
Sustain a culture of innovation and collaboration by creating integrated processes and systems to efficiently support students, no matter where they are, from prospective to alumni.
Incentivize innovation in academic and research programs by identifying business process and system improvements to support faculty and staff collaboration and innovation in teaching and research across our multiple locations—main campus, UTIA, UTSI, Cherokee Farm, Oak Ridge Institute at UT, and Extension.
Strengthen the impact and reputation of our research, scholarship, and creative activities.
Increase the quantity of influential scholarly outputs and outcomes created by our research community.
Invest in state-of-the-art research infrastructure and frameworks to ensure that our researchers, scholars, and creatives continue to work at the knowledge frontier.
Foster university-wide and external partner enabled networking and ideation opportunities for groups with shared interests.
Provide a world-class multidisciplinary research training experience to a diverse community of undergraduates, graduate students, and postdoctoral scholars.
Implement structures and practices that attract and retain a diverse community of faculty, staff, and students and that support a culture where everyone matters and belongs.
Identify and remedy structural impediments to recruiting and retaining students and employees from diverse populations, including financial, social, and logistical impediments
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Promote best practices for the hiring, engagement, and retention of international students, staff, and faculty through cross-campus training, consultation, and collaboration with campus stakeholders.
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Number of institutions connected through immigration sponsorship.
Number of countries connected through immigration sponsorship.
Number of top 100 ranked universities as per the Times Higher Education World University Ranking.
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Conducting Research that Makes Life & Lives Better
Advance the frontiers of knowledge to create a more just, prosperous, and sustainable future through world-class research, scholarship, and creative work.
Ensuring a Culture Where Vol is a Verb
Develop and sustain a nurturing university culture where diversity and community are enduring sources of strength.
...
Strengthen the impact and reputation of our research, scholarship, and creative activities.
...
Increase the quantity of influential scholarly outputs and outcomes created by our research community.
...
Invest in state-of-the-art research infrastructure and frameworks to ensure that our researchers, scholars, and creatives continue to work at the knowledge frontier.
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Foster university-wide and external partner enabled networking and ideation opportunities for groups with shared interests.
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Provide a world-class multidisciplinary research training experience to a diverse community of undergraduates, graduate students, and postdoctoral scholars.
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Implement structures and practices that attract and retain a diverse community of faculty, staff, and students and that support a culture where everyone matters and belongs.
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Composition of the Group
Area | Title | Name | |
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Research and Assessment | Assistant Director, Institutional Research and Strategic Analysis | Caroline Mann | |
Data Operations - OIT | |||
Registrar’s Office | Ryan Carter | ||
Graduate School | Carl Collins | ||
Graduate School | Sonja R. Jackson | ||
Enrollment Management | Stephanie Sieggreen | ||
Enrollment Management | @stephanie | ||
Center for Global Engagement | William Vittetoe | ||
College of A and S | @Stephanie | ||
Tickle College of Engineering | |||
Herbert College of Agriculture | @Stephanie | ||
College of Architecture and Design | |||
College of Communication and Information | |||
College of Law | @Stephanie | ||
College of Nursing | @Stephanie | ||
College of Social Work | |||
College of Veterinary | |||
UTSI | Manager for Student Affairs | Charlene Hane | |
College of Business | Sara M Easler | ||
College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences | @Stephanie | ||
UTIA | Tom Gill* | ||
CGE | Barbra Giorgini | ||
Student Success | Contact Krystyne Savarese | ||
Health Center | |||
Bursar’s Office | |||
Housing | @stephanie | ||
Division of Student Life | |||
Dean of Students |
Action Items:
- Need retention numbers from OIRA. Retention tracking at Undergrad and Grad.
Deliverables
Executive Summary of broad recruitment needs and blockers including several general recommendations on strategy and targeting.
Competitive Advantages
Problems
Core Recommendations
Point | Why | Needs |
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A functional approach to English proficiency conditional admission that includes integration into the graduate and undergraduate application process. | ||
Targeted recruitment of undergraduates into PhD and Masters programs from public regional comprehensive state universities. | ||
Consolidated point of international undergraduate admissions with credential evaluation support. 60 FTIC international students .9% of the FTIC incoming class. | ||
Creation of a set oversight committee for managing international partnerships and institutional agent agreements carrying recruitment emphasis. | Approval and one prototype. | |
International student scholarship oversight committee. | Consolidated management of all international student scholarships. | |
Holistic gap analysis of the international student experience from recruitment through alumni engagement. | ||
Alumni off-boarding and engagement experience. | ||
Coordinated and methodical approach to international recruitment at all levels. |