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Update on Priorities and Data Comparison between TTU & AAU Institutions

M. Duane Nellis President

Texas Tech University

May 16, 2014

International Students

•  A “One-Stop Shop” for international students with recruitment, admission, advising, graduation, and alumni relations is being located in and offered by the Office of International Affairs (OIA).

•  International recruiter in OIA will join the team on or about July 1, 2014.

•  Third-party international recruiters, Shorelight and Navitas have been short-listed as a pathway program to enhance recruitment efforts. Our goal is to have a contract in place by early June.

•  In consultation with Daquiprafora, an educational advising group in Brazil, we will develop an agreement to recruit students in Brazil, including the TTUISD students, from Brazil. Our goal is to have a contract in place by the end of May.

International Students (continued)

•  Negotiations are ongoing to identify dedicated onsite recruiters in China and India and expect to have contracts in place by the end of August.

•  OIA is working with Communications staff to develop new print and digital recruitment materials targeting international students and to update the OIA webpage. This will be completed by the end of May.

•  International graduate applications (as of 5/9/2014) are 3,056 compared to 2,029 for all the academic 2013 year. Total international applications are 4,402 compared to 3,214 for fall 2013 and admits already exceed the fall 2013 total.

Graduate Students

•  As of 5/9/14 applications to the graduate school are 5,162 compared to 3,743 last year (38% increase). Based on recent analysis we anticipate that Graduate enrollment could increase from 3-6%.

•  Communication plan launched providing information about Lubbock and university, housing, transportation/moving logistics, and special information for international students.

•  Awards for the doctoral dissertation completion fellowship will be announced by May 15. These awards will allow students to work on their research in order to complete their dissertation by year’s end; resources previously used to support awardees will be directed to new students.

Graduate Students (continued)

•  One hundred-fifteen (115) recruitment fellowships that provide $4k supplements to department offers have been issued during the spring semester to enhance enrollment of new students

•  New marketing/PR manager search is underway and will be completed in the coming weeks.

•  Dean Sheridan has appointed a professional development task force to review graduate student professional development and to develop an implementation plan for institutionalizing graduate student professional development.

•  Dean Sheridan is continuing to review the organization and staffing of the graduate school and has made some organizational changes.

eLearning

•  Announcement has been sent out to launch a central organizational structure for online and distance education, “Texas Tech University – Worldwide eLearning,” to be implemented September 1, 2014.

•  Organizational structure will include existing Office of Online Compliance & Regulation that ensures that Texas Tech is authorized to offer programs online and at the regional teaching sites. The Office of Online Compliance & Regulation will oversee the activities of this partnership.

•  Office of Instructional Design and Web Technologies will assist with the design, delivery, and review of online courses (synchronous and asynchronous) to ensure high quality, provide opportunities for significant interaction, and in compliance with the Principles of Good Practice for Online Learning.

•  We will be identifying a partner to assist with marketing of our online programs.

•  Majority of funds dedicated to eLearning will be used to support online initiatives of the colleges, departments, and faculty. Departments will have opportunities to apply for competitive program development grants to assist with increasing the offerings of online and distance education degrees.

Retention Initiative •  White paper developed in Spring 2014 that reported current and future initiatives necessary to

improve undergraduate student retention, persistence and graduation at Texas Tech University.

•  New initiative will be launched focusing on the following areas: ü  Technology – new software to identify at risk and sub-population students ü  Intervention in hard to complete courses ü  College specific retention plans and initiatives ü  Enhanced opportunities for professional development of advisors

•  Initiative emphasizes a plan that represents integration of centralized and decentralized efforts.

•  Elements of the plan will include a data-informed planning process that articulates a comprehensive retention plan with the goal of increasing 6-year graduate rates to 70% and one-year retention rates to 90%.

Our Progress Toward Tier One Data source: The Center for Measuring University Performance unless otherwise indicated

Total Research 2010

$221.4

$218.0

$201.8

$201.1

$157.0

$151.7

$148.9

$133.1

$106.2

$97.3

$83.5

$67.7

$37.0

$137.6*

0 50 100 150 200 250

Carnegie Mellon University

U. of California, Santa Barbara

Stony Brook University

Brown University

Indiana University

Tulane University

University of Kansas

University of Missouri-Columbia


Rice University

University of Oregon

Brandeis University

Boston University

Millions

Texas Tech University 2013 * Data Source: Texas Tech University Institutional Research

Federal Research 2010

$149.2

$127.7

$120.7

$120.1

$113.4

$108.2

$106.0

$81.2

$69.2

$67.5

$66.8

$43.3

$32.7

$28.8*

0 20 40 60 80 100 120 140 160

Princeton University


Brown University



Iowa State University

Tulane University


Rice University

Indiana University


Brandeis University


Millions


Endowment Assets 2011

$642.6

$612.3

$568.7

$559.5

$552.4

$494.8

$474.9

$467.2

$447.2

$417.5

$301.2

$222.0

$139.0

$546*

0 100 200 300 400 500 600 700

Rutgers, State University of New Jersey


University of California, San Diego


University of Arizona

University at Buffalo



University of Colorado Boulder

U. of Maryland, College Park

University of California, Irvine



Millions


Annual Giving 2011

$79.1

$79.1

$72.1

$63.3

$61.7

$52.3

$47.8

$47.5

$44.8

$35.1

$32.7

$19.8

$10.1

$116*

0 20 40 60 80 100 120 140

Rutgers, State Univ. of New Jersey


University of Rochester


Brandeis University


Tulane University

University of California, SB

Stony Brook Univ.

Cornell University


Columbia University

Duke University

Millions


National Academy Members 2011

15

11

11

10

8

8

8

7

7

6

3

2

1

2*

0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16

Brown University

Brandeis University


Indiana University


Michigan State University





Boston University

Tulane University


Texas Tech University 2013 * Data Source: Office of the Provost (2014 TTU number is 4.)

Faculty Awards 2011

12

12

12

11

11

11

11

11

7

6

5

4

2

7*

0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14




Brandeis University

Case Western Reserve University

Rice University




Tulane University





Doctorates Granted 2011

298

276

270

262

248

224

216

213

178

168

149

99

88

283*

0 50 100 150 200 250 300 350


University of Rochester



Washington University

Emory University

Brown University


Rice University

California Institute of Technology


Tulane University

Brandeis University


Postdoctoral Appointees 2010

273

271

220

200

179

172

160

142

138

126

111

101

80

161*

0 50 100 150 200 250 300

Georgia Institute of Technology

Brown University

Rutgers, State Univ. of New Jersey


Rice University




Tulane University

Indiana University

Brandeis University




National Merit 2011

22

21

14

14

14

14

8

8

4

2

1

1

0

4*

0 5 10 15 20 25

Purdue University

University of Wisconsin, Madison

Brandeis University



University of Washington





University of California, Davis




Median SAT 2010

1180

1170

1170

1170

1170

1170

1165

1155

1150

1130

1110

1095

1085

1115*

1020 1040 1060 1080 1100 1120 1140 1160 1180 1200


Indiana University

Michigan State University

Univeristy of Iowa



Purdue University








Faculty to Student Ratio 2012

18

18

19

19

19

19

20

20

21

22

22

22

24

20*

0 5 10 15 20 25 30

University of Maryland, College Park

University of Minnesota

Ohio State University




University of Illinois at Urbana-C


University of Florida

Texas A&M University




Texas Tech University 2013 * Data Source: Texas Tech University Institutional Research (new IPEDS definition used)

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