COMMITTEE:		Admissions and Recruitment 	

MEETING DATE:	8/23/99

PERSON PRESIDING:	John Cope, Esau Waters

ACTIONS OF MEETING

Description of action: Welcome by John Cope,
outgoing chair.  

Welcome by Killingsworth and review of 
committee charge.  Challenge of university to 
increase enrollment and maintain quality of 
students.  Need for committees to speed up 
processes and response time to actions from 
General Administration through the university 
to its committees.

Welcome by Ringeisen.  Board of Trustees 
concern for increasing enrollment and opening 
enrollment and recruiting efforts to regions 
outside normal recruiting area, esp. Triangle 
and Charlotte.  Need to widen recruiting to 
Concern to increase enrollment without losing 
quality.  Concern to speed up committee 
process without defeating shared governance.

Description of action: Cotter nominated Warren 
as Chair.  Motion seconded.  No more 
nominations.  Warren elected chair.  Cope 
asked Waters to agree to be nominated as Vice-
Chair.  Waters accepted.  No more nominations. 
Waters elected chair.  Cotter volunteered to 
be secretary.  Offer accepted.  Cope stepped 
down as chair; Waters assumed chair in 
Warren's absence.

Description of action: Cope described the 
business to be carried over from last year.

1. Resolution to Faculty Senate about 
recruiting international students needs 
drastic changes.  Mention of tuition 
remission should be removed from original 
resolution.  Some political issues need to 
be resolved.  Cope suggested the committee 
invite Killingsworth, as Faculty Chair, to 
speak about the sense of the Senate on this 
issue.

2. Review of 1998-2000 Long-Range Enrollment 
Projections:  explore various ways to 
work with university administration to 
keep quality up and meet admissions 
targets.

3. Cope also noted the need to make solid 
decisions regarding distance learning.

4. Committee will also have other items that 
will come up from time to time.

Muller asked if the committee charge covered 
only admissions to the university or also 
included admissions to programs.   Schools 
change their admission requirements (GPA), 
which prevent students from enrolling in 
certain programs.   The number of 
reconsiderations is growing.  

Powell noted that growth of the student body 
is at the freshman level, not at the top end. 
Enrollment is down in Weekend College, 
Continuing Education, and some professional 
schools.  

McDiarmid said that international and exchange 
students who cannot pre-register are closed 
out of some courses.  Cope said that the 
Enrollment Management Council could become 
active this year.  The chair of Admissions and 
Recruitment also serves on the council.

Description of action:  Discussion of goals.  
Tovey mentioned problem when students return 
from abroad that were not in an ECU-sponsored 
program and have to be readmitted.  Powell 
said that this is an administrative matter and 
it can be fixed if his office knows about it. 
It should be the same process as for students 
who go on an exchange program to another 
school in the U.S.

Muller asked if we admitted students through 
Continuing Studies.  Sessoms said no, but CS 
can register students if the department 
approves it.  CS hopes to have a central 
admissions process for next fall.

General discussion of nature of student 
admissions.  Powell: We charge people who have 
degrees graduate tuition if they want to take 
undergraduate courses.  Sessoms:  We're in 
transition to "learner" from "adult learner." 
Muller:  Then the designation of a 
graduate/undergraduate is not the basis of the 
degree, but the courses a student takes.  
Sessoms:  This is an undergraduate admissions 
committee.

Goals:  
1. Identify obstacles to recruitment and to 
enrollment.  

2. Review draft resolution on international 
students.  Focus on our region vs. travel 
budget.  McDiarmid:  some misinformation at 
Faculty Senate meeting:  total budget for 
International Programs office was $35,000, of 
which she had $5,000 for travel.  Need to be 
more specific in resolution.  Caution about 
using "diversity" instead of pointing out 
advantages of having international students on 
campus.

3. Read Enrollment Projections report and make 
comments for next meeting.  Identify 
discussion items.

4. Identify areas for streamlining committee 
processes and ways to reduce decision time, 
while assuring quality input from faculty and 
maintaining strong shared governance.


NEXT MEETING:	4 October 1999	

ITEMS TO BE DISCUSSED:	Goals as identified 
above:

1. Identify obstacles to recruitment and to 
enrollment.  

2. Review draft resolution on international 
students.

3. Read Enrollment Projections report and make 
comments for next meeting.  Identify 
discussion items.

4. Identify areas for streamlining committee 
processes and ways to reduce decision time, 
while assuring quality input from faculty and 
maintaining strong shared governance.

Michael Cotter, Secretary