Transcript Growing Graduate Education - 2015 BOT Presentation

Academic Excellence Goals for the
University of Vermont
Goal 8: Increase enrollments in graduate and
professional programs
A Presentation to the Educational Policy and
Institutional Resources Committee
David V. Rosowsky, Provost and Senior Vice President
Cindy Forehand, Dean of the Graduate College
May 15, 2015
The Academic Excellence Goals
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Increase the percentage of undergraduate students graduating in four
years
Improve undergraduate student retention, years 1-4
Improve student advising, both academic and pre-professional/career
Increase interdisciplinary teaching, research
and scholarship
Expand programmatic offerings to include distance and hybrid modes
of instructional delivery
Increase research and scholarship in areas that generate high impact,
recognition and visibility
Increase domestic diversity and grow international student enrollments
across the University
Increase enrollments in graduate and professional
programs
Objectives
• Describe taxonomy of graduate degrees
• Describe landscape of UVM graduate programs
• Discuss why UVM should increase its graduate
population
• Discuss how UVM can increase its graduate
population
Considering the Options
Professional or Research Intensive
• Professional degrees prepare the graduate to
practice a specific profession
• Research intensive degrees prepare the graduate to
create new knowledge
– More flexible in training and career opportunities
– Doctoral level students typically supported by
assistantships
• Either can be at the masters or doctoral level,
reflecting different degrees of training and/or
independence
UVM Graduate Degree Programs
• Masters programs
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Thesis-based
Project-based
Course-based
Professional Masters
Online Masters
Accelerated Masters Programs – early graduate program
entrance and double counting 6-9 credits for UVM
undergraduate students
• Doctoral programs
– Dissertation-based
– Practice-based professional programs
Graduate Student Roles
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Student
Scholar
Teacher
Mentor
Professional
Ambassador
Creator of new knowledge
And Key to Faculty Success!
UVM Graduate Enrollment Distribution
PhD
DNP, EdD, DPT
MS
PhD
DNP, EdD, DPT
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MA
MA
Professional
Master's
PhD, MS, MA
Professional
Degrees
DPT, DNP, EdD,
MAcc, MAT, MBA,
MEd, MPA, MPH,
MS, MSD, MST, MSW
Professional
Master's
MD
PhD, MS, MA
Professional
Degrees including
MD
Growing UVM’s Graduate Population - Why?
• Key component of President's Strategic Action Plan and Provost's
Academic Excellence Goals
• Enhance intellectual vibrancy (good mix at research universities
is 3-4:1 UG/G; UVM is 5.4:1 including MD, 7.2:1 without MD)
• Enhance UVM reputation in research and scholarship
• Enhance faculty productivity
• Increase community of graduate (and postdoctoral) students
• Provide role models and mentors for undergraduates
• Meet student need
• Vermont workforce development (64% of master’s students are
Vermont residents)
• Increase revenue
Workforce Development, Economic Growth & Student Need
2012. Hard Times, College Majors, Unemployment and Earnings: Not All College
Degrees Are Created Equal http://cew.georgetown.edu/report/hard-times/
Workforce Development, Economic Growth & Student Need
Growing UVM’s Graduate Population - How?
• Goal for May 2020: Increase the graduate student population by
400 students, 140 of whom are international
• 30% growth in graduate student number
• Percentage of international graduate students increases from 10% to 15%
• Brings UG/G to 5.5:1 (or 4.4:1 with MD students included)
• Realizing the goal
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Increase international enrollment
Increase accelerated masters options and recruitment
Increase capacity in existing programs – IBB provides the opportunity
Develop new high quality programs consistent with UVM vision and
mission and that meet student need – IBB provides the opportunity
• Enhance recruitment and student support
Increase International Enrollment
Percent Change in International Applications
From 2013 to 2104 by Geographic Region
Change in International
Enrollments from
2013 to 2014
UVM
-5%
National 8%
Average Annual % Change
in international enrollments
from 2008-2013
UVM
National
1%
2.9%
National trends show greatest current
growth opportunity in masters programs.
Increase International Enrollment
• Active recruitment - be visible
– Raised language proficiency standard for direct
admits to facilitate success
• Global Gateway Program (GGP)
– Advertise accelerated masters programs to
successful GGP undergraduates
– Develop a Pre-masters Program (PMP)
Increasing Capacity
• Increase capacity in current and new programs
– IBB allows program growth and quality enhancement with a
clear understanding of the balance between revenues and
expenses
• Develop new programs
– Respond to national trends/needs
• MS in Medical Science
• Complex Systems and Data Science MS
• PhD in Food Systems
– Distance education
• Public Health programs (MPH, CPH, CEPH)
• Concentration in Leadership for Sustainability, MS in Natural Resources
Enhance Recruitment and Student Support
• Active recruitment
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Publicize our strengths
Target international students
Target domestic diversity
Customer relationship management approach to
admissions
• Enhance graduate student professional development
– Writing Center
• Dissertation writing boot camps
• Grant writing workshops
– Teaching certificate
– Career services
Enhance Recruitment and Student Support
• Enhance research doctoral student support - stipend
level and number
– Stipend levels must be competitive to attract the best
students
– Tuition on grants
– Training grants
– Philanthropy
• Professional student support
– Decrease out of state tuition
– Scholarships
– Philanthropy
Growing UVM’s Graduate Population - Why?
• Key component of President's Strategic Action Plan and Provost's
Academic Excellence Goals
• Enhance intellectual vibrancy
• Enhance UVM reputation in research and scholarship
• Enhance faculty productivity
• Increase community of graduate
(and postdoctoral) students
• Provide role models and mentors for
undergraduate students
• Meet student need
• Vermont workforce development
• Increase revenue