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Private Colleges in the public interest: The annual report to the Council on Postsecondary Education by the Association of Independent Kentucky Colleges and Universities June 21, 2012 Gary S. Cox, Ph.D President (502) 695-5007 [email protected] http://aikcu.org
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2012 Report to the Council on Postsecondary Education by Kentucky's private colleges

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AIKCU's annual report to the Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education (CPE), delivered June 21, 2012. Provides an update on AIKCU's progress towards its goals under KY's strategic plan for postsecondary education, highlights ways Kentucky's private colleges are holding down costs, and includes a list of individual campus achievements from 2011-12.
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Page 1: 2012 Report to the Council on Postsecondary Education by Kentucky's private colleges

Private Colleges in the public interest:The annual report to the Council on Postsecondary Education by

the Association of Independent Kentucky Colleges and UniversitiesJune 21, 2012

Gary S. Cox, Ph.DPresident

(502) [email protected]

http://aikcu.org

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Baccalaureate Graduate Associate/Certificate

2001/02 2002/03 2003/04 2004/05 2005/06 2006/07 2007/08 2008/09 2009/10 2010/11

581

556467

427434

407401388

335351

2,0121,8661,5941,509

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4,4314,1594,2694,1913,8813,8013,9023,7793,5553,575

4,807 4,7655,162

5,401 5,5175,780

6,1276,330

6,581

7,024

AIKCU degree production, 2001-02 to 2010-11

Source: CPE Comprehensive Database

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2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011

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6,122

5,447

4,7084,296

4,0143,8203,5953,1572,7782,459

29,36728,282

26,69725,703

24,74523,42623,08822,55622,37522,47422,305

AIKCU Total Fall Enrollment, 2001-2011

Source: CPE Comprehensive Database

Undergraduate Graduate

74% of undergrads are Kentucky residents, representing all 120 counties(Nearly 8,000 come from other states/countries, at cost of $0 to the Commonwealth)

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Controlling college costs is a major concern for AIKCU members as well as for students and families

Reigning in tuition increases:

•Average tuitions well below regional and national private college averages

•2011-11 to 2011-12 average increase was 4.9%. 2011-12 to 2012-13 average increase is 4.4%. (Historically tuition increases averaged 6%.)

•Tuition increases offset in many cases by increases to financial aid budgets

Support for students:

•More than $200 million annually in institutional aid

•Average tuition discount rate approximately 40%

•Serve high proportions of Pell recipients

•Collaborations with KCTCS to encourage transfer

Emphasize degree completion in 4 years: Approximately 40% of all first-time, full-time students graduate in 4 years, reducing total cost to degree

Core values tied to student success, providing value: Focus on teaching, learning and outcomes: faculty mentoring, intense advising, internships, experiential learning, career counseling, connecting liberal arts to careers, civic engagement, undergraduate research

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$5,000

$10,000

$15,000

$20,000

$25,000

$30,000

$28,500

$24,713

$21,764

AIKCU* South National

*AIKCU average does not include Alice Lloyd College or Berea College, Kentucky!s work colleges (where students pay no tuition). Sources: AIKCU 2011 Tuition Survey; College Board!s Trends In College Pricing 2011

Average 2011-12 private nonprofit college tuition & fees (Very few students at independent colleges actually paid this “sticker price” after financial aid.)

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Grant Aid to AIKCU students by source, 2009-10

63%

17%

19%

Institutional Grants $201.7 million

Federal Grants $61.0 million

State Grants $55.2 million

Source: National Center for Education Statistics

98.5% of first-time, full-time students receive financial aid

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AIKCU (total sector)

Berea

Mid-Continent

Lindsey Wilson

Union

Midway

Pikeville

Alice Lloyd

Spalding

Brescia

Kentucky Christian

Kentucky Wesleyan

St. Catharine 50

53

56

56

59

61

61

67

67

70

71

83

50

Independent colleges serve high percentages of Pell Grant recipients:50% of all undergraduates at Kentucky!s independent colleges received federal Pell grants in 2010-11, up from 45% the previous year. More than half of students receive Pell at 12/20 AIKCU institutions.

Source: Fall 2010 enrollment data from CPE Comprehensive Database; 2011 NAICU Student Aid Reports.

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Average loan debt of 2010 college graduates

0

6,500

13,000

19,500

26,00025,250

21,770

19,985

AIKCU KY Public Universities National

Source: Project on Student Debt, http://projectonstudentdebt.org. 8/8 public universities and 14/20 AIKCU campuses represented.

Average debt at graduation of 2010 graduates who took out student loans during their postsecondary careers.

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State aid to AIKCU students is crucial, yet financial aid to AIKCU students accounts for less than 4.5% of Kentucky!s total postsecondary spending

84.4%

4.4%

11.2%General Fund

appropriation for public postsecondary

institutions & CPE

KHEAA aid to AIKCU students

Other KHEAA aid

Sources: Office of State Budget Director - FY 2011 state General Fund appropriation (enacted), KHEAA

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71% of AIKCU!s Kentucky resident undergrads receive

some state financial aid (2010-11 unduplicated total recipients: 14,708)

Received KHEAA aid

71%

KTG51%

CAP29%

Source: 2010-11 Enrollment from CPE Comprehensive Database, Financial aid data from KHEAA. Does not account for PT/dual credit students included in denominator of total Kentucky resident undergraduates.

KEES49%

% of AIKCU Kentucky undergrads participating in each of “Big 3” KHEAA programs

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Minimizing costs and maximizing efficiencies

Business as usual is not a business model: Campuses have taken a variety of approaches to increase efficiencies, contain internal costs, refine business practices, and grow strategically in response to the economic challenges of recent years.

Collaborative cost containment:

•35+ business partnerships through AIKCU to promote cost savings

•AIKCU Benefit Trust: 10 member campuses participate in AIKCU!s self-funded, collaborative employee health insurance program (of 13 campuses that employ a self-funded model)

More than $300 million in capital construction during recession: Primarily achieved through fundraising, but AIKCU campuses have also employed creative use of tax credit and other financing options

Academic growth:

•New programs in response to local/regional needs

•Continued focus on opportunities for adult students and KCTCS transfers

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$90,000

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Average full-time faculty salaries in Kentucky, 2010-11

Source: National Center for Education Statistics

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2011-12 AIKCU Campus Highlights

Alice Lloyd College

Alice Lloyd College is currently involved in a number of campus projects totaling $2.5 million – all paid for through fund-raising. The college has also received approval to add a kinesiology major.

Asbury University

More than 50 Asbury University students — plus some faculty and staff — will be working as paid broadcast professionals at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London (July 27-August 12). Since 1984, Asbury’s award-winning Communication Arts program has sent students to the Los Angeles, Calgary, Atlanta, Sydney, Salt Lake, Athens, Torino, Beijing and Vancouver Olympics as working/paid camera operators, camera assistants, public relations officers (liaisons) and audio assistants alongside the industry’s top professional broadcasters. Asbury is the only school in the world that has been invited to send students in this capacity. Asbury is also sending another dozen students to report/blog/broadcast — for Web sites, newspapers and even daily television programming — for media outlets around the country.

Bellarmine University

To improve education in the Commonwealth, Bellarmine University's Annsley Frazier Thornton School of Education has developed three innovative new partnerships. The school — which last year launched a new Ph.D. in Education and Social Change — has partnered with the Eminence School District so that high school juniors and seniors can visit Bellarmine two days a week to earn college credit, while enjoying exposure to — and involvement in — campus life. A collaboration with Nativity Academy at St. Boniface lends financial and curriculum support to the innovative Catholic middle school for at-risk urban youth. A new relationship with Oldham County Public Schools will provide 40 elementary school teachers with advanced coursework on teaching reading skills next year.

Berea College

On July 1 Berea will welcome Lyle D. Roelofs, Ph.D. as the 9th president of the college. Dr. Roelofs currently serves as provost and dean of the faculty (on leave), and professor of physics at Colgate University. He will succeed current Berea president Larry D. Shinn, who is retiring on June 30. Thanks to reforms implemented over the last several years by President Shinn, Berea has been able to reduce its cost of education in each of the last two years.

Brescia University

In the past year, Brescia University welcomed the largest freshman class since 1979, along with the largest undergraduate degree seeking enrollment since 1982. In December 2011, the University received reaffirmation of accreditation with SACS, and recently our Social Work program was reaffirmed by the Council on Social Work Education, Commission on Accreditation, which makes it the first accredited online undergraduate social work degree completion program in the country. Last year the Brescia University Board of Trustees approved a new campus Master Plan, which will provide direction for future growth and improve the campus visually.

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Campbellsville University

Campbellsville University has worked this year on improving tuition aid for our students. CU has given an increase to students in 14 surrounding counties with up to $1,500 additional funds above their KEES monies in a renewable scholarship. CU also launched a new “work to learn” program to help our students. For the past two years, more than 60 percent of our freshmen classes have been first generation college students, and more than 90 percent of CU students receive financial aid of various types.

Centre College

Centre College secured the 10.11.12 General Election Debate between the nation’s two vice presidential candidates. This event – as it did in 2000 – will announce around the globe that the Commonwealth of Kentucky and Centre College are places where important conversations affecting our country and the world take place. An evening when everybody associated with the Commonwealth and higher education wins!

Georgetown College

Georgetown College was recently selected for the second straight grant cycle by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute to receive a $1.1 million grant for expanding the pool of highly talented leaders in science research and education who hail from first-generation backgrounds as well as under-served counties. Just as four years ago, Georgetown was the only Kentucky institution chosen.

Kentucky Christian University

Kentucky Christian University is implementing a new Biology/pre-professional degree program, preparing undergraduate students for professional schools of medicine, pharmacy, dentistry, physical therapy, and other professional schools of health sciences. The project includes a "fast track" option that will allow high school students to obtain college credit through distance education, enabling them to complete their bachelor’s degree in three years post-high school.

Kentucky Wesleyan College

Kentucky Wesleyan College has experienced significant growth and activity in its music program during the 2011-2012 academic year. With new leadership from Professors Paul Oakley and Dennis Jewett, the Kentucky Wesleyan Singers performed to outstanding receptions in 26 churches, including a spring break tour that took them to 11 cities in 5 states, in addition to appearances at the General Conference of the United Methodist Church in Tampa and the Kentucky Annual Conference of the UMC in Covington. Next year a new band program under the leadership of Professor Steven Pederson will be added to the outstanding choral program and to the talents of concert pianist and Artist-in-Residence Dr. Diane Earle.

Lindsey Wilson College

Lindsey Wilson College was named a Bonner Scholar school thanks to a $1 million matching gift from the Corella and Bertram F. Bonner Foundation of Princeton, N.J. About 65 LWC students will receive Bonner scholarships (sizes vary depending on year, GPA and level of service) in exchange for service learning.

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Mid-Continent University

In an effort to keep costs low for students, Mid-Continent University has frozen tuition for the third year in a row for 2012-13. This three-year freeze follows an initial reduction in tuition in 2010-11, making tuition lower today than it was in 2009-10.

Midway College

Midway College dedicated a new Learning Resource Center last fall. It is a handsome facility with faculty and academic staff offices, classrooms, conference rooms and an equine lab.

St. Catharine College

St. Catharine College enrolled the first classes in its new Graduate School in January 2012. The master’s program in leadership has areas of concentration in community and regional studies and health promotion and leadership. St. Catharine’s physical campus is changing to accommodate its continuing academic expansion. A new residential complex opened in fall 2011 and the new $9 million, 40,000 square foot Hundley Library and Graduate School is on track to be completed in December 2012.

Spalding University

Spalding has secured the historic “Cosmopolitan” building on 2nd street, which will provide 40,000 additional square feet of classroom/academic use and be named the Republic Bank Academic Building. The physical growth accommodates continually increasing demand for Spalding programs – Spalding awarded a record 620 degrees this spring.

Thomas More College

Thomas More launched TMC3, an innovative new three-year degree program that enables motivated undergraduate students in pursuit of a bachelor's degree a traditional college experience and an extra year of earning power. Qualified students can save both time and money by completing a traditional four-year bachelor's degree in just three years at a very competitive tuition rate.

Transylvania University

Transylvania has acquired 17.5 acres of land contiguous to our current 39 acre campus. Our intention is to ameliorate athletic facilities so as to accommodate our expanded offerings of lacrosse and track and field.

Union College

Union College is proud to announce the selection of Marcia A. Hawkins, Ph.D., as the institution’s 19th, and first female, president. Dr. Hawkins comes to Union from the National Institute of Technology in Liberal Education in Georgetown, Texas, and brings with her more than 20 years of experience in higher education. She will officially begin her presidential duties on July 1.

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University of the Cumberlands

University of the Cumberlands continues to have the largest percentage of its students studying in the STEM areas of science, technology, engineering and mathematics with 29% of the students majoring in biology, chemistry, physics, mathematics, engineering, or information systems.

University of Pikeville

The University of Pikeville has developed an initiative to increase bachelor degree attainment in Southeastern Kentucky. The bachelor degree attainment rate of the high school graduates of the coal producing counties of Eastern Kentucky is about one-half that of the rest of the state and the University of Pikeville has led the effort to address this problem. The General Assembly almost passed a comprehensive program of equalization scholarships and so the Governor has approved a pilot program for graduates of the high schools in nine counties to encourage those who have at least 60 credit hours to pursue a bachelor degree. The CPE will evaluate the results of the program in the fall of 2013 and report to the Governor and General Assembly.