Admissions and Recruitment Committee

MEETING DATE:	August 24, 1998

PERSON PRESIDING:	John Cope

ACTIONS OF MEETING

Description of action:	Election of officers
			John Cope, Chair
			Louis Warren, Vice-Chair
			Michael Cotter, Secretary


Description of action:	
Schedule of meetings for this year:
First Monday of each month (except September and January) 
at 3:00 p.m., in Rawl Annex #142

Description of action:	Business to carry over for next year:
1.  Admissions and recruitment of international students. Cope said that we 
will probably appoint a subcommittee to work on this issue.  We will discuss it 
further at the October meeting.

Description of action:	Discussion of various issues:
1. Misulis mentioned that we discussed admission of home-schooled students 
last year and asked about possible developments this year.  Cope said that he 
attended a large conference at Winston-Salem.  Tom Powell has met with the 
local group, which is very active and had very precise questions.  The UNC 
General Administration has not done much with this issue that would affect us 
officially at this point, but home-schooled students are certain to increase. 
Clayton said that home-schooled students, as with other students, are required 
to submit test scores from standardized tests (ECU uses the ACT test for this 
purpose).  ECU has now developed a database for correlating test scores from 
home-schooled students.  It was also noted that students home-schooled 
students may enter a community college at age 16, then later transfer to ECU.  
Cope said that enrollment was about 3 or 4 students a year now, but it expected 
to grow.

2. Tovey asked if there were any statistics on minority enrollment.  Clayton 
replied that we do count minority enrollment; the number is up a small amount 
from last year.  We have no separate admissions policy for minorities, a change 
he has seen since he began work in Admissions nine years ago.  Killingsworth 
asked if a  report on this could be made a part of the routine business of the 
committee each year; it was noted that Tom Powell reports to the Faculty 
Senate on this each year, and that he could also report it to this committee as 
well.  

3.  Sessoms  asked about the improvement in SAT scores in the past five years.  
Clayton replied that the College Board raised the average scoring level by 
approximately 100 points in 1995.  The average SAT of entering freshmen at 
ECU, which had achieved a 20 year high of 920 under the old scoring system 
in 1993, became approximately 1020 for that year under that new scoring 
method.  After a slight decline in the intervening years, it is now almost back to 
that record score this year, estimated at 1019.  Grade point averages also appear 
to be up this year over last year, he said.

4.  Walsh asked about out of state admissions being cut off in July.  Clayton 
explained about the 18% cap on out of state students for two years in a row, 
mandated by the legislature.  Although the admissions office did send out an 
announcement in July that out of state admissions were being cut off, later it 
was able to enroll some students because others who had been accepted decided 
not to enroll.

5.  Killingsworth mentioned that the Distance Education and Extension 
Advisory Board (DEEAB) will be recruiting students who are changing careers 
and are coming back to school for certification.  It is moving rather fast.   She 
asked for a representative from the committee to serve on a subcommittee.   
Cope said that he would make an appointment or serve himself.

NEXT MEETING:	Monday, October 5, 1998,  3:00 p.m., Rawl 142

ITEMS TO BE DISCUSSED:	
Admission and recruiting of international students.

Michael Cotter, Secretary