ACADEMIC
SENATE POLICY
Enrollment Management
#F02-222
The Constitution
of the Faculty of San Francisco State University, in Article III, Section
1, assigns the Academic Senate responsibility to formulate policies and procedures
regarding, among other things, student admissions and retention. The likelihood that applications will increase
faster than capacity in the near future makes it necessary to consider enrollment
strategies.
I. Definitions
1.
Enrollment management
includes all university policies and procedures having to do with the recruitment,
application, selection, and enrollment of students, whether as first-time
freshmen or as transfer students or as graduate students.
2.
SFSU's historical service area
means those
II.
Principles
1.
SFSU
is committed to providing qualified students with the greatest possible access
to excellent higher education and lifelong learning. Accordingly, SFSU shall continue to search for
innovative ways to provide access within the constraints of available funding.
2.
Enrollment
management should allow the University to enhance, not compromise, the diversity
reflected by our enrollment and by our community. Diversity shall remain an important concern
of the University.
3.
Enrollment
management strategies shall evolve with the consultation of various constituencies,
so that the use of selection criteria or other techniques shall not distort
the current array and balance of programs.
4.
Changes
in the proportions among lower-division, upper-division, and graduate division
students as well as among majors and professional programs shall be deliberate,
consultative policy decisions.
5.
In managing enrollment, SFSU shall
maintain its commitment to students coming from SFSU's
historical service area.
III.
All-University Enrollment Management Committee
1.
The
All-University Enrollment Management Committee shall consist of the following
members:
·
the chairs of the Academic Senate
and of the Senate's Educational Policies Council and Student Affairs Committee;
·
three faculty members elected
by the Academic Senate from the faculty at large, to overlapping three-year
terms; these members may succeed themselves for any number of terms;
·
two members appointed by the
Vice-president for Academic Affairs;
·
the Associate Vice-president
for Enrollment Planning and Management; and
·
two
students designated by the Associated Students.
2.
The
committee shall choose its chair from among its members at its first meeting
of each academic year. The first meeting
of each academic year shall be called by the chair of the academic senate
in consultation with the vice-president for academic affairs.
3.
The
committee shall meet at least once in the fall semester to review current
enrollment patterns and projections and to discuss whether changes in policies
and procedures are likely to be needed. The
committee may be called to meet as frequently as situations require.
4.
The
committee shall:
·
advise the president on all
aspects of enrollment management, including the calendar for the applications
process and changes in the campus's enrollment target;
·
review and recommend to the
Academic Senate regarding proposals from individual programs seeking impaction,
including supplementary procedures for maintaining a diverse student body;
and receive and review annual reports from impacted programs on their success
in maintaining a diverse student body and on the need for the continuation
of impaction;
·
collect and disseminate best
practices developed by departments and programs to manage enrollments, whether
through impaction or through other measures;
·
review and recommend to the
Academic Senate regarding proposals to limit undergraduate applications from
outside the historical service area of SFSU;
·
review and recommend to the
Academic Senate regarding proposals to change the proportions among lower-division,
upper-division, or graduate students, or among degree programs or professional
programs; and
·
recommend
to the Academic Senate regarding any changes in this policy or in related
policies.
5.
The
Enrollment Management Committee is not intended to function as the presidential
advisory group mandated for each campus by the Board of Trustees in its resolution
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