Recruitment and Retention Alliance Workgroup

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

Point	Why	Needs
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.

Data Definitions

Term	Definition	Data Point
International Student	A non-citizen pursuing a program of study at UTK.	SPBPERS_CITZ_CODE = 2 (OIRA agree?) GORVISA_VTYP_CODE = Not Null (OIRA agree?)
Study Abroad Student	Any enrolled UTK student studying for credit at an international institution?	Banner = history enrolled in placeholder course
International Partnership	Any formal agreement between UTK and another institution that has been vetted and signed by Procurement.
Retention	What is UTKs definition? OIRA should know? Will it work for our purposes?
International Employee	A non-citizen on payroll	Report from HR
International Visitor	A non-citizen engaged in research, teaching, consulting, etc. who is not a student and is not on payroll	Report from SEVIS plus report from sunapsis of Fulbright and B status visitors
Business Travelers Abroad	Business, conference, and non-credit travel abroad

Data Metrics

Name of Metric	Data Point	Frequency	Fields	System	Unit
Retention rate of international students by semester of intake.	Retention by SAAADMS admit	Fall, Spring, Summer I + II	?	?	ISSS; I House
Number of institutions connected through immigration sponsorship	How many institutions are connected to UTK through J Exchange Visitor and H1-b sponsorship.	Annual	Institution, Type of Activity	SUNAPSIS	ISSS
Number of countries connected through immigration sponsorship	How many countries are connected to UTK through J Exchange Visitor and H1-b sponsorship	Annual	Institution, Type of Activity, Country of Institution	SUNAPSIS	ISSS
Number of top 100 ranked universities as per the Times Higher Education World University Ranking	How many top 100 institutions are connected to UTK through J Exchange Visitor and H1-b sponsorship	Annual	Institution, Type of Activity, Country of Institution, Times Higher Education World University Ranking	SUNAPSIS	ISSS
Economic impact of international students at UTK for 2nd Congressional District	Dollar value of international students at UTK	Annual	Dollar value	NAFSA Economic Value Report	ISSS
Number of jobs created by international students at UTK for 2nd Congressional District	Number of jobs created	Annual	Jobs created	NAFSA Economic Value Report	ISSS
Number of post-docs by college	Number of post docs in each college	Fall and Spring	Post-Doc by College	HR Report	ISSS
Number of International Faculty, Staff, and Researches by college	Number in each college	Fall and Spring		HR Report	ISSS
Grant dollars generated per year			by college		GRO
Existing partnerships per year			by college		GRO
Incidents abroad per year		Annual			GRO
Number of students studying abroad per academic year		Annual	Term, level, demographics, FTIC, where	?	PAO
Number of business travelers abroad per year		Annual	Traveler, type of activity, where, by college		GRO
Enrolled international students by college		Fall and Spring			ISSS
Student participants in International House programming	Number of students who engaged in I House programming through Event Pass	Annual	Unique student occurrences, by college, number of engagements, by date of event	Event Pass	I House
Number of faculty-led program by college		Annual
Number of international students provided cultural adjustment, on-boarding, and orientation support by college.	Oriented students	Fall and Spring		SUNAPSIS	I House; ISSS
Scholarships awarded by CGE		Annual	by college, number, amount, per year		GRO, ISSS, PAO
Grant awards by CGE		Annual	by college, number, amount, per year		GRO, PAO
Number of students transferred to UT by semester by college	Em is going to send a list.	Annual	by college, number, by year		ELI
Number of conditional admits to ELI by college	Find the data point. Probably a SAAADMS admit type? Check Slate as well.	Annual			ELI

UT Strategic Plan Matrix

Strategic Goal	Objective
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.
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.
Making Ourselves Nimble & Adaptable Empower and sustain a culture of collaboration, agility, and innovation throughout the university.
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

ISSS Goal	Data Metrics	UT Strategic Goal	UT Objective
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.	Retention rate of international students by semester of intake.	Ensuring a Culture Where Vol is a Verb Develop and sustain a nurturing university culture where diversity and community are enduring sources of strength.	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.	Retention rate of international students by semester of intake.	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. 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
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.		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.	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
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.	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.	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. 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.