Recruitment and Retention Alliance Workgroup

Overview

 

Team members

 

Due Date

 

Retrospective period

 

 

Composition of the Group

Area

Title

Name

Email

Area

Title

Name

Email

Research and Assessment

Assistant Director, Institutional Research and Strategic Analysis

Caroline Mann

mmann8@utk.edu

Data Operations - OIT

 

@William Vittetoe

 

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

 

@William Vittetoe

 

Herbert College of Agriculture

 

@Stephanie

 

College of Architecture and Design

 

@William Vittetoe

 

College of Communication and Information

 

@William Vittetoe

 

College of Law

 

@Stephanie

 

College of Nursing

 

@Stephanie

 

College of Social Work

 

@William Vittetoe

 

College of Veterinary

 

@William Vittetoe

 

UTSI

Manager for Student Affairs

Charlene Hane

chane@utsi.edu

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

 

@William Vittetoe

 

Bursar’s Office

 

@William Vittetoe

 

Housing

 

@stephanie

 

Division of Student Life

 

@William Vittetoe

 

Dean of Students

 

@William Vittetoe

 

Action Items:

Need retention numbers from OIRA. Retention tracking at Undergrad and Grad.

Deliverables

  1. Executive Summary of broad recruitment needs and blockers including several general recommendations on strategy and targeting.

 

Competitive Advantages

 

Problems

Core Recommendations

Point

Why

Needs

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.

 

 

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.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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