Strategic Enrollment Planning Committee
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 SEPC Research Initiatives

Status on March 10

1. ACT EIS to study Southern Miss’s visibility and competition for traditional new freshmen

Waiting on list to generate queries; need to invite mtg participants

2. High school projections – WICHE, others such as MS Department of Education, Census Bureau IHL

Assigned to Michelle

3. Workforce needs analyses to project academic demands

Assigned to Ann

4. Check to see how the Geography department can help with 2 and 3 above

Emailed bill to update on status of this task

5. Southern Miss brand image studies – college bound students, parents, counselors. community colleges, adults, employers

Gathering participant information; need to update instruments

        5a. College bound students

Gathering participant information; need to update instruments

        5b. Parents

Gathering participant information; need to update instruments

        5c. High school Counselors

Gathering participant information; need to update instruments

        5d. Community colleges

Gathering participant information; need to update instruments

        5e. Adults

Gathering participant information; need to update instruments

        5f. Employers

Gathering participant information; need to update instruments

6. Check with Marketing to see what is out there

Assigned to JP

7. Competition studies – Clearinghouse and others such as lost inquiries and admits

Assigned to JP

8. Lost admitted students study -- Clearinghouse

Assigned to JP

9. Reasons you are losing admits – College Board ASQ
                                                          

Under advisement by Jim

10. Competition communication study            

Assigned to Allyson

11. Academic program overlap study                                      

Assigned to Kristi

12. Price sensitivity study

NEXT YEAR

13. SSI to study student satisfaction and importance

Rec'd instruments; first round to be distributed 3/24

14. Increase NSSE sample size to study student engagement

8.77% response rate at present (better than last year)

15. Student attrition research

Assigned to Michelle

16. Incoming characteristics of students who succeeds and who don’t succeed

Assigned to Kristi

17. Academic program capacity study

Emailed bill to update on status of this task

18. Analysis of student flows into majors and courses

In progress

19. Costs of serving different student populations

In progress

20. Enrollment projection scenarios

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1. Recent student enrollment funnel statistics

Assign to Peter

2. Characteristics of admitted students

Assigned to Michelle

3. Student review report

Assigned to Ann

4. Traditional undergraduate student retention and graduation statistics

Assign to Peter

5. NSSE (small samples) to study student engagement

Assigned to Allyson

6. Graduating student survey

Assigned to Kristi

7. Alumni survey

Waiting on data

8. Pilot study of withdrawn students – Education-Psychology

Waiting on data

9. Cost of programs analyses from fiscal

Waiting on data

10. Godwin Group Analysis

Assigned to Allyson

11. Paul Sims Capstone Project

Assigned to Ann