Increasing Accountability leads
to Enhancing Opportunities
Diversity
Engaging in and with local Communities
Engaging with Workplaces
Enriching Total Student Experiences
Engaging with our Mission
• 225K students in UNC
• “These days, universities
are expected not just to
educate 18-24 year olds
on campus about static
sets of printed page
subject matter, but to
provide lifelong learning
opportunities to students
of all ages in dynamic
engaged learning,
blending theory and
application about a
dynamic, relentlessly
expanding world.”
2015 UNC Engagement
Report
R ace/Ethnicity
– WCU
Student Body
– just one form of diversity (source: WCU Institutional Planning and Effectiveness)
2015
2014
UG
GR
Total
%
Total
%
% C hange
505
69
574
5.6%
494
4.8%
16.2%
Alaskan Native
64
10
74
0.7%
88
0.8%
?15.9%
Asian
128
15
143
1.4%
133
1.3%
7.5%
Black / African American
564
97
661
6.4%
669
6.4%
?.2%
Pacific Islander
10
2
12
0.1%
11
0.1%
9.1%
White
6,933
1,240
8,173
79.0%
8,290
79.8%
?1.4%
Multiple Race
351
33
384
3.7%
319
3.1%
20.4%
International
266
53
319
3.1%
378
3.6%
?15.6%
8,821
1,519
10,340
10,382
Hispanic of any race
American Indian or
Native Hawaiian/
( Unknown
Total
)
?0.4%
› Curricular and co-curricular
› Africa, More than a Continent; Global Poverty
Project; North Carolina, our state, our time
(campus themes)
› Latino Studies curricular offerings, creative and
cultural opportunities;
› Economic Inequality Project at the American
Association of State Colleges and Universities;
› Supporting Hispanic Student Success Webinar
“We must never lose our clear focus on the
University’s duty to contribute to the common
good, to develop leaders for our communities and
to serve those communities in ways that enhance
the quality of life for the people who live in them.”
UNC President Tom Ross, inaugural address, 2007
– Service learning (609 course sections and 135 faculty taught
courses that integrated service learning/community
engagement projects in 2013-14)
– Service (6,600 students engaged in service to the community
and 58,350 recorded hours of service by our students in 201314; $35,000 worth of gleaned materials helped to feed lowincome community members)
– Economic development ($439 million in income to the WCU
service region economy in 2012-13; $26 billion from UNC to
NC in 2014)
UNC’s “Our Time, Our Future” strategic plan calls for
campuses to explore ways to increase campus-based
and externally-based “experiential internships” and the
number of students who arrive in the workplace “jobready.”
Whitman and Crews, Engaged learning economies:
Aligning civic engagement and economic development
in community-campus partnerships.
53% of WCU students participate in service; 88% of
those WCU students believe that their volunteer
efforts will have a substantial impact on the lives of
those that need assistance.
WCU Carnegie Community Engagement ReApplication, 2013.
› WCU Example: Mountain Heritage Center
› The Mountain Heritage Center nurtures a 10K+ collection of artifacts
reflecting our rich regional heritage and hosts between 12 and 15
student interns each semester;
› Mountain Heritage Day content;
› Hundreds of outreach events in local schools and on campus for
community;
› Increasing involvement in WCU curricular experiences (history,
geography, hospitality/tourism, library, etc.).
› While only 3% of WCU currently complete a registered internship, the
Center for Career and Professional Development is undergoing
restructuring and rebranding to facilitate an increase in internships:
› At WCU’s 2015 Student Employment Fair we hosted 52 employers, 21
of whom were off-campus, compared to 32 and 8, respectively, in
2014.
› Moved to an online internship process for students, supervisors, and
faculty, with resources and best practices under development.
› 6,883 current employers in our hiring database
Campus
Students
Campus
Students
ASU
4,445
UNCC
3,243
ECSU
174
UNC-CH
11,522
ECU
7,320
UNCG
9,119
FSU
589
UNCP
1,912
NC A&T
421
UNCW
2,424
NCCU
3,530
WCU
8,254
NCSSM
148
WSSU
1,366
NCSU
9,787
UNCA
1,023
*Total 65,277 students