LBad96
August 2, 2016, 7:50pm
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http://www.starnewsonline.com/news/20160801/uncws-sartarelli-to-push-enrollment-new-programs-in-2016-17
Student enrollment is chief among his priorities. The student body will grow between 300 and 400 students, about 200 of those being new freshmen. But Sartarelli is particularly focused on bringing in military and online students through outreach to bases in eastern North Carolina.
“We have about 1,500 students connected to the military now,” he said. “The military folks need more online programs because they’re constantly getting deployed, they’re going different places. So it’s important to be able to get on the computer and take their classes.”
By 2021, the strategic plan calls for upping military enrollment to 2,000 and increasing online students from 1,100 to 2,500. The plan also sets a benchmark of having about 1,000 international students within five years, up from a modest 230 today. This fall, Sartarelli and associate vice-chancellor Paul Townend will head to student fairs in Brazil and China to ask high-schoolers to consider the Port City.
“We have not done very much international on the in-bound side,” he said. “We’re just starting international so it’s going to take 2 or 3 years to get rolling.”
What do y’all think? Personally, I feel that, while raising enrollment isn’t at all a bad idea, the Chancellor’s main focus should be raising the academic quality to the point where we’re one of the top 100 universities in the nation.