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BEHIND the NEWS P E O P L E W AT C H STATS WATCH A. CLAYTON SPENCER, VICE PRESIDENT FOR policy at Harvard, has been named the eighth PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS MAY HAVE LOWER GRADUATION RATES, BUT IN president of Bates College (Maine), effective moving students toward graduation, it appears they’re more successful than private instituJuly 1. Before spending the past 15 years at tions, according to a report assessing graduation rates from the Higher Education Research Harvard, Spencer served as chief education Institute at UCLA. It introduces a new method for predicting an institution’s graduation counsel in the U.S. Senate, working under rate, based on social, economic, and psychological characteristics of incoming students. Senator Edward M. Kennedy. She will sucPrivate universities graduate more students in four years (64 percent) than public ceed Nancy J. Cable, schools, but given student traits, the expected graduation rate (67.7 percent) is actually interim president higher. At public four-year colleges, on the other hand, only 19.3 percent would be exsince July 1, 2011. ... pected to graduate in four years, yet the actual rate is 23.5 percent.What if public four-year As of October, Kristin colleges enrolled students with the characteristics of private university students? They could Rowe is assistant proexpect an increase in four-year degree attainment of 140 percent, the report surmises. vost for advisement at Report co-author Linda DeAngelo, assistant director of the institute’s CIRP (CooperaBerkeley College. She tive Institutional Research Program), says administrators at institutions where the actual will provide adminisgraduation rate is higher than the expected rate should examine what programs are worktrative leadership for ing and build upon them. “There’s always more that you can do,” she affirms. academic advisement A. Clayton Spencer That message is especially geared toward schools with little concern about degree at all Berkeley College completion because students are graduating. “All institutions have a role to play in meetlocations (New York, New Jersey, and online). ing ambitious national college completion goals,” she says. What she sees as the wrong Previously, Rowe served as campus operating road for greater completion—trying to attract top students—has actually been partly the officer for the college’s New York City locareason for improvements in the last decade. “There are only so many top students to go tions. … W. Ken Harmon is provost XX. and vice See Page around,” she points out. president for academic affairs at Kennesaw Sponsored by: [Campus Management “It’s really about educating our young adults versus trying to atlogo] tract top students to improve your institutional bottom line.” The focus should instead be State University (Ga.), effective Dec. 5, 2011. on “doing well with the population of students we serve.” He had been serving in this position on an The full report can be downloaded from www.heri.ucla.edu. —Melissa Ezarik interim basis. … James M. Danko, who became the 21st president of Butler University Four-Year Predicted and Actual Degree Attainment Rates (Ind.) in August 2011, was inaugurated dur33.9 Public University 37.1 ing a ceremony on Nov. 12, 2011. … Likewise, 67.7 Private University Judith Huntington was officially inaugurated 64.0 as the 13th president of The College of New Public 19.3 Predicted Rochelle (N.Y.) on Oct. 14, 2011. She suc23.5 4-Year College Actual ceeded Stephen J. Sweeney, who had served Non-Sectarian 49.6 as president since 1997. … As of December, 48.7 4-Year College Jim Borsig is the 14th president of Mississippi Source: “Completing College: Catholic 55.4 Assessing Graduation Rates University for Women. He is the first male to 54.1 4-Year College at Four-Year Institutions,” hold this position in more than 20 years. … Higher Education Research 47.0 Other Religious Katrina Rogers is provost at Fielding Graduate Institute at UCLA 47.8 4-Year College University (Calif.) as of Nov. 1, 2011. —K.D. % of Students U Public Colleges: Degree Completion Leaders 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 CRM for large institutions: How ASU takes it personally View this web seminar on-demand. See page 37 14 | January 2012 universitybusiness.com http://www.heri.ucla.edu http://www.universitybusiness.com

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of University Business - January 2012

University Business - January 2012
Contents
Editor's Note
College Index
Ad Index
Behind the News
Human Resources
Campus CFo
Getting Carded
Choosing telepresence
boosting the bottom line
Printer Purchase Pointers
Money Matters
Viewpoint
End Note

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