The Impaction Question
Premise: The state budget environment is unstable. Recent Executive Orders require that
campuses (a) file impaction plans one year in advance of implementation (b) include public
forums. CARS planning is to answer this question: What are the conditions at which CI would
consider impaction?
1. Data that will be presented to the committee in January: No-impaction assumption:
Growth at x% per year with straight line projection from 2009-10. Disaggregated by:
 Campus demographics
 Program mix (22 majors sorted 5 ways)
o STEM
o Arts & Humanities
o Social Science
o Business
o Education
 Student level proportion
 In and out of region
2. Impaction occurs when demand exceeds capacity
 allow capacity to control fte
 cap fte on selected programs
 fill one program first then open other programs
Conditions
Program (UDT’s)
Level (FTF)
Out-of-region
applicant pool exceeds
20% of normal
N/A
FTF/UDT out of
balance
Other
strategies
FTF or UDT apps
yield exceeds 20%
of normal
Ratio of apps to
available spaces
exceeds historical
growth
Anticipating growth mode –
programs will manage using
“other strategies”
Schedule of
classes
Across the
board cuts
“Braking”
strategies
(deadlines)
We are required to
reduce FTE
Lower the capacity of larger
programs to maintain control
of smaller programs