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A progress report on efforts at the University of Âé¶¹´«Ã½ at ²Ñ¨¡²Ô´Ç²¹ to improve student recruitment and retention, among other matters, was provided on June 1, 2017 to the Board of Regents by UH ²Ñ¨¡²Ô´Ç²¹ Interim Chancellor David Lassner.
In July 2016, as part of their approval of a new 3-year tuition schedule for the ten-campus UH system, the regents directed that UH ²Ñ¨¡²Ô´Ç²¹ focus on the following items and provide a status report within a year:
- Alternative financing of repairs such as has been done at the community colleges and for energy management
- An enrollment management plan to address recruitment and retention with target numbers
- UH ²Ñ¨¡²Ô´Ç²¹ campus master plan, based on a study of current space utilization that incorporates the findings of the high-level systemwide integrated academic and facilities strategic plan that the board passed at a prior meeting
- Internal academic restructuring and redesign of UH ²Ñ¨¡²Ô´Ç²¹ to enable the campus to move forward as a modern research university focused on holistic 21st century needs of the State of Âé¶¹´«Ã½
- Budgeting and comprehensive resource planning for dollars, positions and space that focuses on overall campus priorities and recognizes the changing reality of financing public higher education in Âé¶¹´«Ã½ and the nation
Highlights include:
- Alternative financing of repairs ()
- Enrollment management ()
- Recruitment and retention ()
- Strategic enrollment plan ()
- 20,000 students by 2020 ()
- UH ²Ñ¨¡²Ô´Ç²¹ campus master plan ()
- Academic restructuring and redesign ()
- Reorganizations under discussion ()
- Looking at new tuition distribution model ()
- Shared administrative services ()
- Budgeting and resource planning ()
