[BFET] FW: Allocation and Enrollment Monitoring Reports

[Erin Frasier]

Below is a summary of system enrollment trends that is being shared throughout our system.

From: Jan Yoshiwara
Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2017 10:16 AM
Subject: FW: Allocation and Enrollment Monitoring Reports

State Board members, chancellors, presidents.  This message will be distributed broadly to the college system.

The following is a summary of system enrollment trends based on summer quarter and preliminary Fall quarter enrollments.  This summary represents a shift in the way we describe the college system's enrollments compared to our legislative target.

While SBCTC enrollment summaries have generally focused on tracking state supported enrollments without Running Start, enrollment trends show that a growing number of students are starting at the community and technical colleges as Running Start students and that state supported enrollments plus Running Start may be a better reflection of the number of state funded students being served.  Including Running Start students in describing system budget enrollments also better aligns the way we describe our enrollments with the biennial targets identified in the operating budget act and the categories included on the official Office of Financial Management "State-funded Public Higher Education Enrollment Report."


*         System Budget Enrollments: The 2015-17 state operating budget set a combined CTC budget enrollment of 151,485 FTES. This includes 139,927 FTES for adults and 11,558 FTES for Running Start. Based on preliminary Fall data, our system is expected to end the year at 151,686 FTE - 201 above the combined budget target.


*         Preliminary Fall Enrollments.  State supported enrollment (excluding Running Start) is projected to end the year at 131,455 full-time equivalent students (FTES).  This would be 3 percent less than 135,324 FTES in 2015-16.  There were some abnormally large drops for some of the colleges in their preliminary Fall data, which may suggest some discrepancies in the preliminary data transferred to the State Board for some colleges.  Using year end estimates for these colleges more similar to enrollments from last year would mean a higher system projection that is still slightly below total state funded enrollment from last year.  If this is the case, any discrepancies should be revealed in the end-of-quarter Fall data.



*         Summer Quarter Enrollments generally vary more than other quarters from overall patterns in enrollment, but can still give some early signs of what might be expected for the year.  Note that Running Start is not included on this list because Running Start does not generally have summer quarter enrollments:

o   Total FTE is down by 3 percent with a similar drop in State FTE (down 3 percent), a larger drop in self-support FTE (down 17 percent), and a small gain in contract FTE (up 3 percent).

o   Apprenticeship enrollment continues to rise (up 16 percent)

o   Applied Baccalaureate enrollment continues to rise (up 59 percent)

o   eLearning continues to rise (up 4 percent)

o   Worker Retraining enrollment continues to rise (up 9 percent, was down for several years since the recession and started to rise for the first time last year)

o   I-BEST enrollment continues to rise (up 27 percent)

o   Basic Education for Adult enrollment continues to stay fairly consistent (down 2 percent)

o   Department of Corrections enrollment continues to stay fairly consistent (up 3 percent)

o   Total International enrollment is down (down 11 percent)

o   International Contract enrollment is up (up 18 percent)

o   WorkFirst enrollment continues to decline (down 26 percent)

For college level data, here is the link to the page with the allocation and enrollment monitoring reports: http://www.sbctc.edu/colleges-staff/research/annual-reports/enrollment.aspx.

Please contact Devin Dupree, SBCTC research associate, ddupree at sbctc.edu<mailto:ddupree at sbctc.edu> if you have questions about these data.

Thanks,
Jan Yoshiwara, deputy executive director, education division
John Boesenberg, deputy executive director, business operations division


Jan Yoshiwara
Deputy Executive Director for Education Services
Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges
1300 Quince Street SE
Olympia WA  98504-2495
360.704.4353



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