Updates to faculty layoff plan and other stuff

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Tere North wrote: Thu Feb 22, 2018 8:21 pm
ST_Lawson wrote: Thu Feb 22, 2018 6:58 pm Fixed it for you


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Thanks Scott! What did I do wrong?
It looks like you used ImgBB to host the image and linked to it, but the url that you put in was the address of the page that the image was hosted on. I followed the link through to see the image itself, copied the direct URL of the image itself, and put that between the Image tags.

I was previously unfamiliar with ImgBB, but it looks like they might have a way to be integrated into the site directly and be an easier way to do images. I'll have to look into that when I have time.
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Tere North wrote: Thu Feb 22, 2018 8:26 pm
sealhall74 wrote: Thu Feb 22, 2018 7:57 pm I guess the numbers that stick out to my untrained eye are the +18% increase in program offerings and the -18% decrease in faculty. Maybe online programs can account for some of that.
It was an era of adding degrees. Some of those will come off the books with the program cuts that were initiated in 2016-17, but the students are still being allowed to continue.

What about the 50% increase is costs to students? That has got to hurt enrollment with students opting to spend money elsewhere. Even with the decrease in faculty, class size has still gone down because student numbers have gone down more than faculty numbers.
I was sort of thinking the increase in cost would be no different than at any other school but I might be wrong.
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sealhall74 wrote: Thu Feb 22, 2018 9:18 pm
Tere North wrote: Thu Feb 22, 2018 8:26 pm
sealhall74 wrote: Thu Feb 22, 2018 7:57 pm I guess the numbers that stick out to my untrained eye are the +18% increase in program offerings and the -18% decrease in faculty. Maybe online programs can account for some of that.
It was an era of adding degrees. Some of those will come off the books with the program cuts that were initiated in 2016-17, but the students are still being allowed to continue.

What about the 50% increase is costs to students? That has got to hurt enrollment with students opting to spend money elsewhere. Even with the decrease in faculty, class size has still gone down because student numbers have gone down more than faculty numbers.
I was sort of thinking the increase in cost would be no different than at any other school but I might be wrong.
I found this: https://trends.collegeboard.org/college ... ges-decade
Which says that the average growth rate of tuition from '07-'17 at a public 4-year school was 2.7% per year above inflation.
This says that inflation in that timeframe totaled 18.06%: http://www.in2013dollars.com/2007-dollars-in-2017%20%20
As for the first number, is the % just totaled up (like 10 years x 2.7%) or is it cumulative? If it's just totaled up, then 27% plus essentially 18% is 45% (as compared to the 50.4% tuition increase for us over that time).

I also found this: https://www.usnews.com/education/best-c ... ic-schools
Which says the following:
"U.S. News data show that among National Universities, tuition and fees have soared the most for in-state students over the last 10 years. The average in-state tuition and fees at public schools increased from $6,468 in the 2007-2008 academic year to $10,691 in 2017-2018 – a 65 percent jump, according to data reported by 300 ranked National Universities in an annual survey.

In comparison, the average tuition and fees at a private university rose by 49 percent, and the average out-of-state tuition and fees climbed 55 percent during that same period."
Now, our number listed includes tuition, fees, room and board, and I think the above data is just tuition, but I don't think a 50% increase is out of line with what other schools are doing. Is it too much?...I think so. But is it significantly more than other schools...it doesn't look like it. I have not dug into our regional/"peer" institutions to find out their numbers to compare to ours, however. So, it's possible that a lot of that increase is happening in other regions and we are the outlier for our region or something.
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ST_Lawson wrote: Thu Feb 22, 2018 8:48 pm ke you used ImgBB to host the image and linked to it, but the url that you put in was the address of the page that the image was hosted on. I followed the link through to see the image itself, copied the direct URL of the image itself, and put that between the Image tags.

I was previously unfamiliar with ImgBB, but it looks like they might have a way to be integrated into the site directly and be an easier way to do images. I'll have to look into that when I have time.
Thanks,
OK, I just used the link they provided, not realizing I needed to do it for the "embedded image" on their site that included my file name.

I found the ImgBB site by looking for a free image storer.
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The following website allows you to calculate cumulative (net) inflation rate and correspond $ value http://www.usinflationcalculator.com/

The Illinois Board of Higher Education data provides data for all Illinois colleges/universities in the state. For the tuition, fees, and room & board fees, the interactive table is at http://www.ibhe.org/IBHEDatabook/Chapte ... 0IV-1.aspx

Below compares all the Illinois public universities. For the overall comparison I eliminated Northeast Illinois and Governors State as they were clearly outliers that much have made significant changes. WIU is above the average by tuition/fee/R&B increase by 2.6 percentage points.
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From tonight's WGEM News:

WIU focuses on stabilizing enrollment.
http://www.wgem.com/story/37606873/2018 ... enrollment

Plans to move honors college at WIU.
http://www.wgem.com/story/37606895/2018 ... ege-at-wiu
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WIU addresses ways to stabilize and grow in strategic plan.

From tonight's KHQA-TV-7 News:
http://khqa.com/news/local/wiu-addresse ... tegic-plan
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wiu712 wrote: Tue Feb 27, 2018 11:33 pm WIU addresses ways to stabilize and grow in strategic plan.

From tonight's KHQA-TV-7 News:
http://khqa.com/news/local/wiu-addresse ... tegic-plan
Stabilize at 10K and grow from there. Hell, let's see if we can get it to 8K (<7600 now) and keep it there. What's so magical about 10?
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SGA Censures UPI (University Professionals of Illinois).

From today's Western Courier:
https://westerncourier.com/40469/news/s ... show242835
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wiu712 wrote: Wed Feb 28, 2018 8:52 pm SGA Censures UPI (University Professionals of Illinois).

From today's Western Courier:
https://westerncourier.com/40469/news/s ... show242835
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