All-Team Meeting | August 25, 2020
University Updates from Sharon Martin
- Welcome to our newest team members!
- Return to Campus
- Testing / Dashboard
- COVID-19 Education Module
- Wellness Survey
- Parties and Social Gatherings
- Incident Command Center
- Academics, Student Life
- Continue to stress the messaging of:
- Campus Safety
- Personal Safety
- Personal Accountability
- Racial Equality Working Groups
- President Gee formed five working groups in mid-June
- University Policing, Black Student Leadership Development, Inclusive Campus,
Campus and Community Partnerships, Academics
- Waiting on a few groups for their final recommendations on initial steps
- UREM has been working on next steps for a few of the teams
News Coverage Updates from April Kaull
- WVU’s Return to Campus plans have generated local, state, regional and national news attention
- The New York Times: Stop Campus Partying to Slow the Virus? Colleges Try but Often Fail
- Dean of Students Corey Farris was quoted
- Research Making News
- TIME: Postmaster General Louis DeJoy's Cringe-Worthy Hearing Stokes Partisan Tensions
- Matthew Titolo, College of Law, was quoted
- The Conversation
- Our partnership with The Conversation continues to provide a national platform
for WVU.
- Inside WVU Today Returns
- Stay Up-to-Date on the News
-
wvutoday.wvu.edu
-
enews.wvu.edu and daily MOUNTAINEER E-News email
- WVUWeekly emails on Monday afternoons
- students.wvu.edu and daily Unews email for students
Enrollment Updates from Kim McCarty
- WVU Trends
- First-time freshman quality remains strong as compared to last year.
- Headcount is d own overall, but we maintained enrollm ent under the curve in AI 3 and 4. These students graduate and retain well while not bringing down academic profile.
- E nrolled students are currently at 4, 559. T hat number may increase going into the first day of classes with last minute admits and students registering in the next few days.
- First-time transfer numbers are following a similar tr end to first-time freshmen.
- National Trends
- Students are rethinking how far they are willing to travel to attend an institution.
- The sudden shut down of campuses in the spring has not been forgotten by students searching for colleges this fall.
- There is a desire to be close to home in case anything will happen during their time at school.
- Decision factors for choosing a college have shifted but been completely changed.
- Students are less willing to travel overall.
- If plane travel is required due to distance the impact is higher.
- Schools will be refocusing recruitment efforts in their primary markets.
- Areas of importance such as affordability and academic quality remain important
decision drivers.
- The academic environment changed and more students are looking at flexibility in delivery than before.
- Students are considering how online instruction will impact their academic
experience.
- Admissions Changes
- Test Optional Admissions have been adopted for the next year as a response to COVID 19.
- Test optional applicants will be considered for merit aid and final program details are being developed.
- Guided Pathways program in CLASS will be implemented this fall. This will eliminate pre-majors in CLASS.
- Fall Communications
- Encourage app emails
- Application opened on August 1
- Application fee waiver postcard
- Identified new populations to receive fee waivers.
- Viewbook mailing
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Digital marketing plans
- Many college fairs are going virtual for the fall.
- Participated in a number of regional and national fairs virtually.
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Additional virtual opportunities will be provided to students directly AUAs,
Discover, Meet WVU, VC programing, etc.
- Graduate Admissions (Update from Shelly Quance)
- Graduate admissions is seeing continued growth in enrollment numbers.
- Inbound marketing has contributed to the application growth and interest in WVU.
- Welcome Erin Fields as a new program coordinator.
- Target X application roll out is complete.
- Transitioned School of Medicine away from a paper application and are
in the process of moving Dentistry to Target X.