Office of Instruction and Student Development Update November 22, 2013
Long-term Stability Planning—Linking FTES to Budget
The administration had the opportunity to present the 2013-16 Enrollment Management Plan to
Expanded Cabinet and the Academic Senate last week. Included in the plan are best case and
worst case three year FTES projections scenarios. Under the best case scenario, the college
would attain 4,388 FTES in 2013-14 and maintain 2.5 percent growth in 2014-15 and 2015-16.
Best Case 2013-16 FTES Scenario
Resident FTES
Non-resident FTES
Non credit FTES
Total FTES
2012-13
2013-14
2014-15
2015-16
4,388.00
4,388.00
4,519.64
4,655.23
205.00
215.25
226.01
237.31
30.00
30.90
31.83
32.78
4,623.00
4,634.15
4,777.48
4,925.32
Also included in the plan is a worst case three year FTES scenario. Under this scenario, the
2013-14 projection is reduced because fall 2013 is coming in 6.9% below fall 2012. Also, no
enrollment growth is forecasted, enrollments for fall 2014 and spring 2015 will be held to 201314 levels, and we will include enrollments from summer 2014 and summer 2015 in the 2014-15
fiscal year. This results in a 2014-15 target that is 4.5% below the 2013-14 funded FTES level.
Then, 2015-16 assumes that we will continue on enrollment stability at the 2014-15 enrollment
level.
Worst Case 2013-16 FTES Scenario
Resident FTES
Non-resident FTES
Noncredit FTES
Total FTES
2012-13
2013-14
2014-15
2015-16
4,388.00
4,000.00
4,188.00
4,188.00
205.00
215.25
226.01
237.31
30.00
30.90
31.83
32.78
4,623.00
4,246.15
4,445.84
4,458.09
Linking our enrollment management planning to our long-term budget stability planning process
will give us a chance to plan our actions instead of reacting to circumstances. We know that
with our enrollment decline, the choices that must be made to balance our budget and provide
long-term budget stability will be hard but we’re committed to holding honest conversations with
the constituent groups about what we have to do to become fiscally stable even if the steps are
painful.
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In addition to the budget challenge, we also have to meet the student success initiative and SB
1440 and SB 440 mandates. All of these challenges provide us the opportunity and motivation to
clarify who we are as a district, work together to develop strategies to offer clear educational and
matriculation pathways for our students, and establish our most important educational priorities
and goals that will guide our future actions and decisions about the allocation of resources.
You can access the full enrollment management plan at:
http://inside.redwoods.edu/StrategicPlanning/EnrollmentManagement.
Reorganization Feedback
I mentioned in my November 2 update that we will meet with CRFO leadership and the
Academic Co-Presidents to talk about how we can improve our current organizational structure
to enhance support for students and faculty. I believe that the reorganization, implemented only
four months ago, has met the anticipated benefits but also raised some unique challenges.
To help us assess the reorganization, it is very important that we elicit the opinion of the faculty
and staff. Toward that end, a survey will be sent to all full-time and part-time faculty and staff in
Instruction and Student Development the second week of December to gather feedback on how
we can make things work better. In addition to the survey, the associate deans will set up
division meetings for the week of December 9 to give faculty a chance to share their thoughts
with their administrators.
As always, thank you very much for the work you do. Have a restful a break.
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