Tech & Distance Ed Committee Meeting – October 5, 2023

Present

Helena, Kristi, Bojan, Walter, Tom Dana, Katy, Magdi

Nathan Hanson & Elayne Colon present to the committee.

Nathan Showing Data

  • Fall 2023 applicant and enrollment data
  • Data not cohort data
  • Data showing is only for Fall 2023
  • Tom: wondering if there is any change compared to prior years

General Goals of Committee

  • Goal is to increase pool of applicants and enrollment of said students to be more varied.
  • Support colleagues in online recruitment and retention by providing resources with college.
  • Where else are the spaces where we can be supportive?

Future Data Request by Committee to Nathan and Elayne

  • Applicants, admits, enrolled, provided over 3 academic years. Need to see 2-3 year for all online graduate program across demographics
    • Add years in the field if possible
    • Age
  • Would be helpful to see both fall and spring of year
  • We have a goal of comparing data year to year, semester to semester too
  • Uncompleted application vs completed – Nathan – not really possible
    • No – not possible coming from 3rd party – “paid application fee”

Re: summit in April – may not see a difference here re: summit results.

Questions

  • Do we collect data on 1st generation college students? Only at undergraduate level. Probably not.

Nathan – can provide more data for 3 semesters: Summer fall spring. Fall is a benchmark.

Elayne – New Idea

  • All program coordinators to development program improvement plan (CIPs)
  • Continuous improvement plans – submitted
  • Can we look at strategies from CIPs – is there analysis there re: what strategies proposed?
  • Could provide the row of Action items off of CIPs

Elayne – Report on Monitoring a Particular Legislation HB 1035 – Line 256

“Public school teachers get 6 credits per semester!”

  • Dual enrollment http://laws.flrules.org/2023/38
  • Section 5. Section 1009.31, Florida Statutes, is created to read:
  • 1009.31 Dual Enrollment Educator Scholarship Program.
  • (1) The Dual Enrollment Educator Scholarship Program is established to assist teachers of grades 9-12 in public schools in this state in obtaining the graduate degree and credentials necessary to provide dual enrollment coursework directly to students on the campuses of such schools.
  • FL DOE – They are building a website for interested teachers.
  • Discussion with SUS counterparts – up to the institution can decide whether or not offer waivers.
  • Maybe way to minimizing AP courses for dual enrollment.

Tom re: Data on Applicants & Enrollment

  • Who do we have in data pull provided by Nathan?
  • Answers a version of the question – compare some of the rows to
  • Current enrollment is likely about last 3 years of applications.
  • Is there alignment or does it look different?

Next Meeting: November 2nd