1. Enrollment Update
NMSU Board of Regents Meeting
March 11, 2013

2. NMSU Spring Enrollment
System-wide
Data from NMSU Institutional Analysis

3. NMSU Spring Enrollment
Las Cruces Campus, Undergraduate
Data from NMSU Institutional Analysis

4. NMSU Spring Enrollment
Las Cruces Campus, Graduate
Data from NMSU Institutional Analysis

5. NMSU Spring Enrollment
Community College Enrollments
Data from NMSU Institutional Analysis

6. NMSU Spring Enrollment
Community College Enrollments
Data from NMSU Institutional Analysis

7. Community College Enrollment
Spring, 2012 & 2013
Alamogordo Doña Ana
Grants
Carlsbad
Data from NMSU Institutional Analysis

8. Regional Universities
Data from NMSU Institutional Analysis

9. Strategic Enrollment
NMSU System
Three principles for system enrollment
•Solutions should be in the best interest of the students
•System interests supersede individual institution interests
•Solutions should seek to build consensus and support from
stakeholders

10. Formula Funding
NMSU System
• FY2013 will be the base year
• FY14 Measures:
– Student credit hour enrollment
– Change in certificates and degrees earned between AY09/10 and
AY10/11
– Change in certificates and degrees earned in STEM and allied health
between AY09/10 and AY10/11
– Change in certificates and degrees earned by Pell eligible students

11. NMSU System Strategic Enrollment
Rationale
• Unify and strengthen NMSU to realize the
benefits of NMSU as a system.
• Support campus and system mission; for the
good of the whole.
• Support student preparation and curriculum
alignment

12. NMSU System Strategic Enrollment
Implementation Strategies
1. Register students on primary campus first
2. Offer courses to meet needs of core students
3. Incentivize transfer

13. Clearinghouse Data
Data from National Center for Educational Statistics,
NMSU Institutional Analysis

14. NMSU System Strategic Enrollment
Future Considerations
1. Lottery Scholarship uncertainty
2. Demographic changes
3. Online degree programs
4. Bachelor’s of Applied Studies
5. Albuquerque Center

15. NMSU System Strategic Enrollment
Marketing
• Focus groups:
– Albuquerque high school seniors, October 2012
– NMSU freshmen from Albuquerque, February
2013
– Albuquerque high school juniors, April 2013
• Pilot testing Facebook ads