Western VP of Student Services Dr. Ronald C. Williams: "Enrollment remains a challenge for us."
By Christopher Ginn, McDoungh County Voice Correspondent:
Vice President of Student Services Dr. Ronald C. Williams addressed the Western Illinois University Student Government Association (SGA) Tuesday night on interdepartmental collaboration to bolster student recruitment and retention.
After the introduction, Williams gave an update on the factors affecting student enrollment.
“As you know, there are various external factors to the University that have negatively impacted us, and I won’t belabor that point tonight, but you might come to realize or already know that we are in the process of trying to increase our enrollment.”
“Enrollment remains a challenge for us for a number of things, but I will argue with anyone that the enrollment decline is not because of the quality of education or the opportunities that are available at the university. A lot of it has to do with student decline in the state of Illinois, and many of our students are Illinoisans, they were born or raised in the state particularly our region.”
“We are in a great region, but the student population in (area) high schools is declining in this region due largely to the economic challenges in the Western region and other regions of the state.“
Williams continued, “We will be reaching out to you, the SGA, and also we will be asking you to reach out to your peers to help us in the recruitment and retention of the students here at the university.” He said, “The Office of Undergraduate Admissions will be working with your advisor, Dr. Michelle Janisz and the Office of Student Activities (OSA) to try to identity ways in which the students can become even more involved in the recruitment process here at the university.“
Employment opportunities after earning a degree also affect student enrollment.
“Enrollment is not what we want it to be,” Williams said, “but in those spaces where we have put forth an effort to recruit additional students, some programs are doing very well. What we know, and it’s not even anecdotal information, it’s more focus groups and surveys that we’ve done with the incoming students.“
Williams explained that students come to WIU for the academic programs, and “where students are majoring are those departments that can’t articulate where a student might work immediately after earning a baccalaureate degree – not the fault of the faculty, not the fault of the students – it’s just the sign of our times.“
Williams concluded his speech noting that some students hesitate to become engaged in the events and opportunities offered them within the first two weeks at the start of a new semester, and urged SGA members through their leadership positions to make WIU a make welcoming community for new students.
“We have found that it’s the student narrative that matters,” Williams said. “I feel very proud to be at Western for nine years, but in the spirit of transparency, not a whole lot of people want to hear my experience and why I think Western might be great. They want to hear from you, they want to hear from the people who are here at this institution getting an education.“
The next SGA meeting will be held on Tuesday, Sept. 5, at 7 p.m. in the Capital Room of the University Union.
Updates to faculty layoff plan and other stuff
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I've heard that 10th day enrollment numbers will be in the neighborhood of 9,440.
This is for full-time and part-time for Macomb and QC combined. This compares to 10,373 for Fall, 2016.
This is for full-time and part-time for Macomb and QC combined. This compares to 10,373 for Fall, 2016.
This sounds about right, but I'll get the official 10th day numbers out as soon as I can, and I'll be scanning the other state universities websites for their numbers as well. Some areas are up, but many are down, in large part because the "prime time" for students to apply, get accepted, and get registered was right when everything was up in the air with the state budget. If the state is able to get something worked out for next fiscal year before the next deadline, then we could see these numbers head back upwards a bit, but I'm not holding my breath that they'll get something together by then.Neckerchief wrote: Sat Sep 02, 2017 10:01 pm I've heard that 10th day enrollment numbers will be in the neighborhood of 9,440.
This is for full-time and part-time for Macomb and QC combined. This compares to 10,373 for Fall, 2016.
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Tere North
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Given the greater "for rent" signs in student housing areas I've seen around town that last year, I too suspect enrollment will be quite a bit lower. What I think is key is to focus on retention. They need to truly understand why so many students leave after getting to Western and then work to resolve that. Fewer students coming in can be blamed on the state, but not being able to increase the percent that stay is a fault squarely on Western.
There has been a half-page of "For Rent" ads in every "Western Courier". These will be very lean years for those owners of the student-rental housing units.Tere North wrote: Sun Sep 03, 2017 12:23 pmGiven the greater "for rent" signs in student housing areas I've seen around town that last year, I too suspect enrollment will be quite a bit lower.
The plus side is that there is now a competition among the owners to fill vacant units. That has dropped the price for those looking for off-campus housing.
Illinois spent millions on stalled and canceled university construction projects.
From today's Chicago Tribune by Peter Matuszak, Contact Reporter:
Eight years after Illinois approved a massive capital plan for university campuses in the state, half of the largest new projects at state schools never began construction and are now canceled or indefinitely halted.
In all, the state put more than $14 million toward five major higher education projects that were approved but never made it out of the planning phase, according to a review of the state's capital budget by the Tribune.
Those facilities — slated for Western Illinois University, Illinois State University, Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago State University and the University of Illinois at Chicago — were approved in 2009 but never received full funding to begin construction.
A spokesman for Gov. Bruce Rauner told the Tribune that the bond funds intended to pay for the projects have run out and that the legislature did not include those items among expenditures approved in the new state budget.
Even if more money became available, project managers and university officials said, the initial designs and construction plans would need to be updated and project costs would be larger after such a long wait.
Western Illinois spent $4 million on preliminary plans for a 130,000-square-foot performing arts center that is now on hold. According to the university, the cost of the $72 million project has increased by $10 million because of the delay in funding.
"Each day that goes by without an increase in the project budget results in a reduction to the building scope due to price increases in the construction industry," spokeswoman Darcie Shinberger said in an emailed statement.
A spokesman for former Gov. Pat Quinn, who signed the capital spending initiative into law in 2009, said that although the governor attended groundbreaking ceremonies at several of the schools, grants were sometimes delayed if the administration decided the projects were not ready for funding.
"If Gov. Quinn had been elected to another term we would have completed all these projects," said spokesman William Morgan.
Although Morgan said the Quinn administration had planned to continue the construction program, records show that revenues set aside to support the initiative — including taxes on video gambling — were falling dramatically short of expectations. Those shortfalls limited the state's ability to sell the necessary bonds.
When Rauner succeeded Quinn as governor in 2015, much of the new construction in higher education was already stalled as the state's capital funds began to run out. On his first day in office, Rauner issued an executive order that temporarily froze construction grants for state-funded projects to review the spending as part of an emergency budget measure.
Now, the administration considers the five major public university projects still waiting on their grants to be expired because of a lack of funding and reapproval by the legislature.
The projects were part of the 2009 Illinois Jobs Now! initiative, the state's first multi-year capital program approved in over a decade. It included $1.6 billion in authorized spending for higher education, including community colleges and private institutions as well as state-owned schools.
The state committed to selling construction bonds totaling $16 billion to pay for much of the program. The bonds were backed by a series of new taxes, fees and revenues intended to pay for the borrowing without affecting Illinois' operating budget.
In the program's first three years, the state borrowed more than $4 billion, which was spent on everything from roads and bridges to plans for a new airport in Peotone to building a 16-inch softball hall of fame.
But this spring, the state legislature's bipartisan research office, the Commission on Government Forecasting and Accountability, reported that the capital program has run its course after selling only $12.7 billion of capital bonds.
Now, the only way the universities can get state capital funds for the five stalled projects is to compete for limited annual capital dollars — or hope the governor and legislature pass a new multi-year capital program with additional revenue to support it.
Despite the premature end of the program, there is one category of higher education that got all of its funding. By 2015, private universities in Illinois had received the $300 million in grants they had been promised.
The state will repay those debts with interest, at no cost to the universities, for years to come.
Promises not kept
As governor, Quinn attended two ceremonial events for the performing arts center at Western Illinois, where planned amenities included three theaters, rehearsal spaces and an art gallery.
At a 2011 groundbreaking, Quinn lauded the project for its environmentally friendly design and the positive economic impact the facility could have on the Macomb region.
"Having a performing arts center at this university will really be an anchor for generations to come," Quinn said. At the time, the facility was expected to begin construction in 2013 and be completed by 2015.
But the full funding for the project was not released in time, and it languished in the design-and-procurement phase. In April 2014, Quinn returned and announced in a speech that he was approving the release of all the money needed to "build the building."
"Long after we are gone people will say, back in 2014 the people of Illinois — good and true — they decided they were going to invest in something really important," said Quinn, who lost his re-election fight to Rauner that November.
Construction was slated to start in 2015, with an opening in 2018. But the project never moved beyond the bidding phase.
"The university does not have an estimate as to when the project will recommence," Shinberger said.
Quinn also visited UIC in September 2012 to move a ceremonial shovel of dirt in a soccer field at Halsted Street and Roosevelt Road, the site of a promised $57 million Advanced Chemical Technology building. The university proceeded to spend more than $6 million on planning, but construction has not begun.
Chancellor Michael Amiridis expressed concern about lack of funding for campus construction needs.
"UIC needs significant investment in its capital facilities to meet growing enrollments and the educational and research needs of its students and faculty," Amiridis said in a statement provided by the university. "We need the state to restore funding to this project and increase its overall investment in our capital infrastructure."
The following February, in 2013, Quinn spoke at the Illinois State University in Bloomington as part of its Founders Day ceremony. "We are going to invest $54 million for a new visual arts center starting right now," Quinn said, receiving a standing ovation.
Since that day, the university has spent $460,000 on planning for the fine arts complex.
The state now considers the project canceled. But Eric Jome, a spokesman for ISU, said the school still is pursuing the project and will continue to seek state funding.
"This would have been a real feather-in-the-cap project," Jome said. "There was a lot of excitement that after so many years the project had been approved. The delay is frustrating, but in general people understand that even in the best of times these things don't happen overnight."
In Chicago, Northeastern Illinois University spent $1.8 million on a new $71 million education building that is now canceled unless funded in a future capital program. And, as previously reported by the Tribune, Chicago State University has abandoned plans for a proposed satellite campus on the West Side after receiving $1 million of the $40 million promised from the state.
John Hicks, executive director of the Washington, D.C.-based National Association of State Budget Officers, said new university facilities allow for new programs, improve the reputation of institutions and help entice students to attend.
"There is a reason that parents and students visit campuses," Hicks said. "To the extent that universities can attract high-performing students, institutional capacity including physical plant is certainly an element of their recruitment strategy."
Together, the grants approved for the five major Illinois projects that never received full funding added up to $296 million.
Grants delivered, delayed
Morgan, the Quinn spokesman, touted the successes of the capital program, saying it created thousands of jobs and saw many large-scale projects finished, including a new bridge over the Mississippi River in southern Illinois.
Records show that more than $250 million worth of grants were provided for major new facilities at public universities, including the $60 million National Petascale Computing Facility that opened in 2012 at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The flagship U. of I. campus also received $44.5 million to cover half the cost of a new engineering building that opened in 2015.
Western Illinois built the second phase of a campus in the Quad Cities with a $42 millionstate grant that is largely completed.
And at Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, a $52 million science complex opened in 2013.
A new transportation science building on the Carbondale campus also was funded through the state's capital program, costing roughly $57 million.
Renovation projects received various levels of funding at universities around the state, the largest being the $60 million the state provided to U. of I. for the historic renovation of Lincoln Hall.
Among the private institutions to receive grants, the largest went to schools in the Chicago area. DePaul University spent $23.4 million on a new Arts and Letters Hall. Northwestern University received a total of $21.6 million that was used for additions to its science and technology building. Loyola University put $17.6 million of state bond money toward the Mundelein Building, which includes classrooms, office space, meeting space and a 200-seat theater.
State construction grants to Columbia College totaled $15.1 million, the University of Chicago received $13.9 million and the Illinois Institute of Technology got $10.9 million.
Sending tax-backed bond proceeds to private universities is not common, said Hicks, of the National Association of State Budget Officers. The exception is the Northeast, where private colleges historically serve a larger part of the population, he said.
"There is typically not enough resources to go around between the public institutions, and I have not seen too many examples of large bond dollars for private schools," Hicks said.
Jim Underwood, who administered the capital program under Quinn as director of Illinois' Capital Development Board from 2008 to 2015, noted that it is easier to distribute money to private institutions than to public universities, which operate under rigorous legal requirements on bidding, minority contracting and regulations.
Underwood said his staff was "champing at the bit" to release more money to universities but final approval to release funds had to come from Quinn and his budget staff.
The capital program included hundreds of lines of grants for universities, and many items were partially funded and ongoing when Quinn left office in 2015.
Rauner's decision to freeze capital grants, and the impasses over the state budget that followed, meant several projects already underway were forced to shut down for more than a year, adding millions of dollars in increased expenses.
After a 15-month delay, a stopgap state budget restarted those projects last year. But they shut down for several weeks this summer as the governor and the General Assembly again struggled to agree on a budget.
Officials from Northern Illinois said the work stoppages increased the cost of a $27.4 million renovation and expansion of Stevens Hall by a combined $2.4 million.
A UIC spokeswoman said a $20.8 million dentistry school upgrade will cost $1.1 million more.
Rauner spokesman Jason Schaumburg said the governor still would like to restart the university projects that are on hold.
"The General Assembly did not include appropriations for some of those projects. We encourage them to re-evaluate so these projects can be completed," Schaumburg wrote in an email to the Tribune.
Paying for the approved projects will require more borrowing, as the Capital Development Board's construction account currently has only $80 million available for distribution.
"The governor's office is reviewing the budget, and decisions, including potential bond sales, have not yet been made," Schaumburg said.
From today's Chicago Tribune by Peter Matuszak, Contact Reporter:
Eight years after Illinois approved a massive capital plan for university campuses in the state, half of the largest new projects at state schools never began construction and are now canceled or indefinitely halted.
In all, the state put more than $14 million toward five major higher education projects that were approved but never made it out of the planning phase, according to a review of the state's capital budget by the Tribune.
Those facilities — slated for Western Illinois University, Illinois State University, Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago State University and the University of Illinois at Chicago — were approved in 2009 but never received full funding to begin construction.
A spokesman for Gov. Bruce Rauner told the Tribune that the bond funds intended to pay for the projects have run out and that the legislature did not include those items among expenditures approved in the new state budget.
Even if more money became available, project managers and university officials said, the initial designs and construction plans would need to be updated and project costs would be larger after such a long wait.
Western Illinois spent $4 million on preliminary plans for a 130,000-square-foot performing arts center that is now on hold. According to the university, the cost of the $72 million project has increased by $10 million because of the delay in funding.
"Each day that goes by without an increase in the project budget results in a reduction to the building scope due to price increases in the construction industry," spokeswoman Darcie Shinberger said in an emailed statement.
A spokesman for former Gov. Pat Quinn, who signed the capital spending initiative into law in 2009, said that although the governor attended groundbreaking ceremonies at several of the schools, grants were sometimes delayed if the administration decided the projects were not ready for funding.
"If Gov. Quinn had been elected to another term we would have completed all these projects," said spokesman William Morgan.
Although Morgan said the Quinn administration had planned to continue the construction program, records show that revenues set aside to support the initiative — including taxes on video gambling — were falling dramatically short of expectations. Those shortfalls limited the state's ability to sell the necessary bonds.
When Rauner succeeded Quinn as governor in 2015, much of the new construction in higher education was already stalled as the state's capital funds began to run out. On his first day in office, Rauner issued an executive order that temporarily froze construction grants for state-funded projects to review the spending as part of an emergency budget measure.
Now, the administration considers the five major public university projects still waiting on their grants to be expired because of a lack of funding and reapproval by the legislature.
The projects were part of the 2009 Illinois Jobs Now! initiative, the state's first multi-year capital program approved in over a decade. It included $1.6 billion in authorized spending for higher education, including community colleges and private institutions as well as state-owned schools.
The state committed to selling construction bonds totaling $16 billion to pay for much of the program. The bonds were backed by a series of new taxes, fees and revenues intended to pay for the borrowing without affecting Illinois' operating budget.
In the program's first three years, the state borrowed more than $4 billion, which was spent on everything from roads and bridges to plans for a new airport in Peotone to building a 16-inch softball hall of fame.
But this spring, the state legislature's bipartisan research office, the Commission on Government Forecasting and Accountability, reported that the capital program has run its course after selling only $12.7 billion of capital bonds.
Now, the only way the universities can get state capital funds for the five stalled projects is to compete for limited annual capital dollars — or hope the governor and legislature pass a new multi-year capital program with additional revenue to support it.
Despite the premature end of the program, there is one category of higher education that got all of its funding. By 2015, private universities in Illinois had received the $300 million in grants they had been promised.
The state will repay those debts with interest, at no cost to the universities, for years to come.
Promises not kept
As governor, Quinn attended two ceremonial events for the performing arts center at Western Illinois, where planned amenities included three theaters, rehearsal spaces and an art gallery.
At a 2011 groundbreaking, Quinn lauded the project for its environmentally friendly design and the positive economic impact the facility could have on the Macomb region.
"Having a performing arts center at this university will really be an anchor for generations to come," Quinn said. At the time, the facility was expected to begin construction in 2013 and be completed by 2015.
But the full funding for the project was not released in time, and it languished in the design-and-procurement phase. In April 2014, Quinn returned and announced in a speech that he was approving the release of all the money needed to "build the building."
"Long after we are gone people will say, back in 2014 the people of Illinois — good and true — they decided they were going to invest in something really important," said Quinn, who lost his re-election fight to Rauner that November.
Construction was slated to start in 2015, with an opening in 2018. But the project never moved beyond the bidding phase.
"The university does not have an estimate as to when the project will recommence," Shinberger said.
Quinn also visited UIC in September 2012 to move a ceremonial shovel of dirt in a soccer field at Halsted Street and Roosevelt Road, the site of a promised $57 million Advanced Chemical Technology building. The university proceeded to spend more than $6 million on planning, but construction has not begun.
Chancellor Michael Amiridis expressed concern about lack of funding for campus construction needs.
"UIC needs significant investment in its capital facilities to meet growing enrollments and the educational and research needs of its students and faculty," Amiridis said in a statement provided by the university. "We need the state to restore funding to this project and increase its overall investment in our capital infrastructure."
The following February, in 2013, Quinn spoke at the Illinois State University in Bloomington as part of its Founders Day ceremony. "We are going to invest $54 million for a new visual arts center starting right now," Quinn said, receiving a standing ovation.
Since that day, the university has spent $460,000 on planning for the fine arts complex.
The state now considers the project canceled. But Eric Jome, a spokesman for ISU, said the school still is pursuing the project and will continue to seek state funding.
"This would have been a real feather-in-the-cap project," Jome said. "There was a lot of excitement that after so many years the project had been approved. The delay is frustrating, but in general people understand that even in the best of times these things don't happen overnight."
In Chicago, Northeastern Illinois University spent $1.8 million on a new $71 million education building that is now canceled unless funded in a future capital program. And, as previously reported by the Tribune, Chicago State University has abandoned plans for a proposed satellite campus on the West Side after receiving $1 million of the $40 million promised from the state.
John Hicks, executive director of the Washington, D.C.-based National Association of State Budget Officers, said new university facilities allow for new programs, improve the reputation of institutions and help entice students to attend.
"There is a reason that parents and students visit campuses," Hicks said. "To the extent that universities can attract high-performing students, institutional capacity including physical plant is certainly an element of their recruitment strategy."
Together, the grants approved for the five major Illinois projects that never received full funding added up to $296 million.
Grants delivered, delayed
Morgan, the Quinn spokesman, touted the successes of the capital program, saying it created thousands of jobs and saw many large-scale projects finished, including a new bridge over the Mississippi River in southern Illinois.
Records show that more than $250 million worth of grants were provided for major new facilities at public universities, including the $60 million National Petascale Computing Facility that opened in 2012 at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The flagship U. of I. campus also received $44.5 million to cover half the cost of a new engineering building that opened in 2015.
Western Illinois built the second phase of a campus in the Quad Cities with a $42 millionstate grant that is largely completed.
And at Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, a $52 million science complex opened in 2013.
A new transportation science building on the Carbondale campus also was funded through the state's capital program, costing roughly $57 million.
Renovation projects received various levels of funding at universities around the state, the largest being the $60 million the state provided to U. of I. for the historic renovation of Lincoln Hall.
Among the private institutions to receive grants, the largest went to schools in the Chicago area. DePaul University spent $23.4 million on a new Arts and Letters Hall. Northwestern University received a total of $21.6 million that was used for additions to its science and technology building. Loyola University put $17.6 million of state bond money toward the Mundelein Building, which includes classrooms, office space, meeting space and a 200-seat theater.
State construction grants to Columbia College totaled $15.1 million, the University of Chicago received $13.9 million and the Illinois Institute of Technology got $10.9 million.
Sending tax-backed bond proceeds to private universities is not common, said Hicks, of the National Association of State Budget Officers. The exception is the Northeast, where private colleges historically serve a larger part of the population, he said.
"There is typically not enough resources to go around between the public institutions, and I have not seen too many examples of large bond dollars for private schools," Hicks said.
Jim Underwood, who administered the capital program under Quinn as director of Illinois' Capital Development Board from 2008 to 2015, noted that it is easier to distribute money to private institutions than to public universities, which operate under rigorous legal requirements on bidding, minority contracting and regulations.
Underwood said his staff was "champing at the bit" to release more money to universities but final approval to release funds had to come from Quinn and his budget staff.
The capital program included hundreds of lines of grants for universities, and many items were partially funded and ongoing when Quinn left office in 2015.
Rauner's decision to freeze capital grants, and the impasses over the state budget that followed, meant several projects already underway were forced to shut down for more than a year, adding millions of dollars in increased expenses.
After a 15-month delay, a stopgap state budget restarted those projects last year. But they shut down for several weeks this summer as the governor and the General Assembly again struggled to agree on a budget.
Officials from Northern Illinois said the work stoppages increased the cost of a $27.4 million renovation and expansion of Stevens Hall by a combined $2.4 million.
A UIC spokeswoman said a $20.8 million dentistry school upgrade will cost $1.1 million more.
Rauner spokesman Jason Schaumburg said the governor still would like to restart the university projects that are on hold.
"The General Assembly did not include appropriations for some of those projects. We encourage them to re-evaluate so these projects can be completed," Schaumburg wrote in an email to the Tribune.
Paying for the approved projects will require more borrowing, as the Capital Development Board's construction account currently has only $80 million available for distribution.
"The governor's office is reviewing the budget, and decisions, including potential bond sales, have not yet been made," Schaumburg said.
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712, this Tribune article reminded me once again how close WIU came to actually beginning the construction of the CPA and how excited we all were to actually see it happen. As I recall, the initial bid went out and state officials were not very happy with increased costs that were incurred because of the amount of time it took from design phase to bid phase. And then, because construction had not begun, it was halted by our esteemed governor. The fact that private schools received money makes me even more irritated. So state university buildings are falling apart and Loyola and Depaul get new or remodeled buildings because they don't have to sweat the paper work. Ugh!!!!!!!!!!!!! Please WIU, please don't ever stop asking for capital funds. Stay in line, you deserve better. 
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While it certainly wasn't the Macomb campus, WIU did get the funding for Phase 1 and Phase 2 of the Quad Cities campus, so we didn't go completely without.
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"Given the greater "for rent" signs in student housing areas I've seen around town that last year, I too suspect enrollment will be quite a bit lower. What I think is key is to focus on retention. They need to truly understand why so many students leave after getting to Western and then work to resolve that. Fewer students coming in can be blamed on the state, but not being able to increase the percent that stay is a fault squarely on Western."
This earlier post from Tere is very accurate. Retention is key. Some problems with retention can be traced back to the type and quality of student being recruited and admitted. Those waiting until the last minute to apply to any school, or those " talked into " coming when there is a lack of true commitment on the student's part usually leads to problems. Also, too many marginal students admitted can affect retention. Admitted students with financial difficulties can lead to early decisions to leave before the loans become too much.
With the growth of community colleges and their ability to keep student debt down, I would hope Western is concentrating a lot of resources there.
This earlier post from Tere is very accurate. Retention is key. Some problems with retention can be traced back to the type and quality of student being recruited and admitted. Those waiting until the last minute to apply to any school, or those " talked into " coming when there is a lack of true commitment on the student's part usually leads to problems. Also, too many marginal students admitted can affect retention. Admitted students with financial difficulties can lead to early decisions to leave before the loans become too much.
With the growth of community colleges and their ability to keep student debt down, I would hope Western is concentrating a lot of resources there.