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Presidential Task ForceReport on Enrollment Size and Program CapacityLafayette CollegeSubmitted to President Alison Byerly41750Jamila Bookwala (Chair) Enrollment_Size_and_Program_Capacity) Kari FazioDC JacksonRebecca KissaneArthur KneyGreg MacDonaldMary RothLarry StocktonAndrew VinchurAngelika von WahlLouis ZulliPresidential Task Force Enrollment Size and Program Capacity Final ReportIn November 2013, President Alison Byerly convened the Presidential Task Force on Enrollment Size an Enrollment_Size_and_Program_Capacityd Program Capacity (ESPC) and charged It to:■Study the enrollment size of the College, in the context of some general consideration of other aspects oEnrollment_Size_and_Program_Capacity
f the college’s programmatic capacity, including the admissions pool, facilities, and calendar; and■Consider costs and benefits of expanding, maintainPresidential Task ForceReport on Enrollment Size and Program CapacityLafayette CollegeSubmitted to President Alison Byerly41750Jamila Bookwala (Chair) Enrollment_Size_and_Program_Capacityt might affect the college’s overall capacityIn addition to two at-large faculty members selected by the President, ESPC includes faculty representatives from two key elected faculty committees concerned with enrollment issues. Faculty Academic Policy and Enrollment Planning Committee. Administrator Enrollment_Size_and_Program_Capacitys on the Task Force include the Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid; the Associate Vice-President for Business and Finance Operations; and, the AssocEnrollment_Size_and_Program_Capacity
iate Provost for Academic Operations.After the kick-off meeting hosted by President Byerly on November 15, 2014, ESPC commenced holding weekly meetingPresidential Task ForceReport on Enrollment Size and Program CapacityLafayette CollegeSubmitted to President Alison Byerly41750Jamila Bookwala (Chair) Enrollment_Size_and_Program_Capacitytegrated Student Experience that was attended by the President), and ten times during the spring semester (meeting minutes are included in Appendix A). Tire Task Force invited various representatives from different College offices and divisions to meet with US and answer questions; these meetings pr Enrollment_Size_and_Program_Capacityoved very helpful and we gratefully acknowledge the time and efforts of Grace Reynolds, Director of Residence Life, Mary Wilford-Hunt, Director of FacEnrollment_Size_and_Program_Capacity
ilities Planning and Construction, Frank Benginia, Registrar, and Gisella Gisolo, Director of International and Off-Campus Study to help facilitate ouPresidential Task ForceReport on Enrollment Size and Program CapacityLafayette CollegeSubmitted to President Alison Byerly41750Jamila Bookwala (Chair) Enrollment_Size_and_Program_Capacitylicit their views, concerns, and suggestions about issues related to enrollment size and program capacity at Lafayette. Two of these meetings were held for faculty, one for students, and one for staff and administrators (notes from the discussions at these open meetings are included in Appendix B). Enrollment_Size_and_Program_CapacityThe chair also met with a small number of faculty members and administrators one-on-one and spoke to a member of the College’s Board of Trustees to soEnrollment_Size_and_Program_Capacity
licit their views and concerns. Several ESPC members also met with the representative of the Education Advisory Board on January 28 and attended the TPresidential Task ForceReport on Enrollment Size and Program CapacityLafayette CollegeSubmitted to President Alison Byerly41750Jamila Bookwala (Chair) Enrollment_Size_and_Program_Capacitytorming exercise designed to elicit their feedback on possible benefits and costs resulting from an increase or decrease by 200-400 students in the size of the7student body. A content analysis of the responses obtained from this exercise is included in the Appendix c, and a synopsis of themes that e Enrollment_Size_and_Program_Capacitymerged from tins analysis is offered later in tills report.We thank faculty and staff colleagues as well as the students who met With US for then thouEnrollment_Size_and_Program_Capacity
ghtful input during rhe information-gathering phase of the task force’s work. Most especially, we thank Simon l oner and Prof, lames Schaffer from rhePresidential Task ForceReport on Enrollment Size and Program CapacityLafayette CollegeSubmitted to President Alison Byerly41750Jamila Bookwala (Chair) Enrollment_Size_and_Program_Capacityed in Appendix 1).1. INTRODUCTIONFor several years now, the issue of enrollment size as been a subject of interest al Lafayette, not least because of 1) the linancial importance of tuition payments williin the college budget and 2) how enrollment size impacts rhe College’s ability to support existin Enrollment_Size_and_Program_Capacityg programs and foster rhe creation of new academic and community initiatives. Since the 1990s, the College has experienced considerable growth in rheEnrollment_Size_and_Program_Capacity
size of in-coming first year classes and this has led to growth in rhe overall size of the college. Considerable additions have been made to residencePresidential Task ForceReport on Enrollment Size and Program CapacityLafayette CollegeSubmitted to President Alison Byerly41750Jamila Bookwala (Chair) Enrollment_Size_and_Program_Capacitye I Fall where the former Alumni Gym was converted for use by the Department of Psychology- and the Program in Neuroscience).The College Master Plan of 2008/09 assumed that the enrollment size of incoming First Year classes would be held at approximately 600 while the size of the Faculty was to grow Enrollment_Size_and_Program_Capacity by 35 tenuretrack positions. Proceeds from a major Capital Campaign were, in part, perceived as a wav to allow for increased faculty size in the abseEnrollment_Size_and_Program_Capacity
nce of increased tuition revenues. With the economic downturn of 2009 and the financial challenges that followed. President Dan Weiss offered a rethinPresidential Task ForceReport on Enrollment Size and Program CapacityLafayette CollegeSubmitted to President Alison Byerly41750Jamila Bookwala (Chair) Enrollment_Size_and_Program_Capacitye of the student body. In a 2011 presentation. President Weiss projected an additional one million dollars in revenue annually for every additional 200 students. Willie the proposal assumed that die size of the faculty and the physical facilities (academic, office, and teaching space) would grow cor Enrollment_Size_and_Program_Capacityresponding to the growth in the size of the student body, a detailed analysis of the linancial costs and revenues, specifically how the net revenue gaEnrollment_Size_and_Program_Capacity
in of one million dollars per extra 200 students would be attained, was not presented to the faculty, Following rhe announcement in rhe spring semestePresidential Task ForceReport on Enrollment Size and Program CapacityLafayette CollegeSubmitted to President Alison Byerly41750Jamila Bookwala (Chair) Enrollment_Size_and_Program_Capacity President.Shortly following her inauguration in rhe fall of 2013, President Alison Byerly formed a Presidential Task Force on Enrollment Size and Program Capacity (ESPC) to study the issue of enrollment size al the College and evaluate how potential actions involving the enrollment size might impac Enrollment_Size_and_Program_Capacityt the financial stability of the college, rhe quality of rhe academic program, and rhe character of campus culture. In addition, President Byerly requEnrollment_Size_and_Program_Capacity
ested the ESPC Task Force to consider wavs in which it might prove feasible ro make more advantageous use of campus facilities on a year-round basis aPresidential Task ForceReport on Enrollment Size and Program CapacityLafayette CollegeSubmitted to President Alison Byerly41750Jamila Bookwala (Chair) Enrollment_Size_and_Program_Capacityng “bigger” or “smaller” might entail. On seeking guidance from President Byerly about this issue, we were advised to consider an increase or decrease of 200-400 students on campus, via a change that would be implemented over a period of years. President Byerly assured the Task Force that an increas Enrollment_Size_and_Program_Capacitye in enrollment Size by 200-400 students would be implemented wliile safeguarding the traditional quality metrics of the incoming classes of studentsEnrollment_Size_and_Program_Capacity
and the student-faculty ratio. Accordingly, the Task Force was advised by the President that a decrease m enrollment Size by the same number of studenPresidential Task ForceReport on Enrollment Size and Program CapacityLafayette CollegeSubmitted to President Alison Byerly41750Jamila Bookwala (Chair) Enrollment_Size_and_Program_Capacity of “staving the same size” in some detail, we recognize that the status quo does not truly represent remaining at a constant size; in recent years, the College has grown the size of the incoming class on average by approximately 10 students per year in order to meet budgetary needs. The Task Force Enrollment_Size_and_Program_Capacityconsiders this slow, unplanned increase in enrollment size to be problematic for several reasons, including the strains it places on already overburdeEnrollment_Size_and_Program_Capacity
ned departments and majors (most additional students seek to major in STEM fields) and on physical facilities and student support services (e.g., clasPresidential Task ForceReport on Enrollment Size and Program CapacityLafayette CollegeSubmitted to President Alison Byerly41750Jamila Bookwala (Chair) Enrollment_Size_and_Program_Capacityale for changing the enrollment size of the College. Members of the Task Force were advised by individual faculty members and a member of the Board of Trustees to carefully consider D'by the College found it necessary to undertake a change (especially an increase) in its student enrollment and to en Enrollment_Size_and_Program_Capacitysure that increases in revenue not be the only driving force behind such an increase. We take tins opportunity to underscore that the Task Force was uEnrollment_Size_and_Program_Capacity
nanimous in its concurrence with these concerns and supports the View that any change in the Size of the College must occur for long-range strategic rGọi ngay
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