{"id":10667,"date":"2014-10-02T07:47:03","date_gmt":"2014-10-02T11:47:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quantumnew.esu.edu\/insider\/?p=10667"},"modified":"2014-10-03T10:13:29","modified_gmt":"2014-10-03T14:13:29","slug":"esu-announces-first-year-of-enrollment-growth-in-four-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/esu-announces-first-year-of-enrollment-growth-in-four-years\/","title":{"rendered":"ESU Announces First Year Of Enrollment Growth In Four Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania reported its first enrollment increase in four years according to official Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education (PASSHE) enrollment census, gathered in late September. According to David Bousquet, ESU\u2019s vice president for enrollment management, the total enrollment for the Fall 2014 semester stands at 6,812, up from the university\u2019s 2013 enrollment of 6,778. The increase represents the highest enrollment growth percentage among PASSHE institutions this year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis enrollment growth didn\u2019t happen overnight,\u201d said Bousquet. \u201cThe increase should be attributed to a number of factors, the first being the tremendous efforts of ESU\u2019s admissions team which resulted in our largest freshman class in three years, a 6.4 percent increase over the 2013 freshman class. Their efforts were instrumental to ESU\u2019s enrollment growth at a time when many universities in Pennsylvania and nationwide are experiencing a drop in the size of their freshman class.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bousquet added that ESU faculty also played a significant role by generating an accurate census count to determine precise course enrollments. \u201cPresident Welsh continues to keep all faculty and staff mindful of the important role they play in the recruitment and retention of students,\u201d said Bousquet. \u201cShe values the collective work of all personnel and has a strong commitment to student success. Each member of ESU\u2019s faculty, staff and administrative team knows that our every effort is critical to a student\u2019s decision to apply, enroll and graduate from ESU.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bousquet indicated that retention of students is equally as important as new student enrollment. \u201cA clear example would be to take a look at the 2013 freshman class. Three hundred of those students did not return this fall.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bousquet also shared some other interesting facts about enrollment and recruitment:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The number of Pennsylvania residents enrolled as freshmen increased by an impressive 14.35 percent over last year (956 vs. 836). Graduate student enrollment continued to increase for the second year in a row in both resident and non-resident students, rising from 592 to 614.<\/li>\n<li>ESU is PASSHE\u2019s most diverse campus with 25.5% of students selecting a race other than Caucasian.<\/li>\n<li>The enrollment of African-American, Asian-American, Hispanic and white students increased by 15.9 percent, 11.7 percent, 4.8 percent and 2.5 percent respectively.<\/li>\n<li>All of the colleges except Education experienced a small enrollment increase in undergraduates this fall. (The College of Education\u2019s situation reflects Pennsylvania\u2019s employment situation for elementary and early childhood education teachers.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cWe must remain keenly aware of the impact of all we do on our campus,\u201d said Bousquet. \u201cThe success of this year\u2019s effort clearly demonstrates that recruitment and retention has become everyone\u2019s job. At ESU, we\u2019ve set the bar high and will move forward to continually improve our efforts to enroll, retain and graduate qualified students one student at a time.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ESU Announces First Year Of Enrollment Growth In Four Years<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7265,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[143,22,42,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","category-facebook","category-news-release","category-slider"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10667"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10667"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10669,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10667\/revisions\/10669"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}