Progress Report: Enrollment

Published November 18, 2024

Recommendation

Timeline

Status

Improve our underrepresented student populations undergraduate and graduate student enrollment by adopting and practicing campus-wide holistic admissions and institutional grant-funding criteria to ensure that prospective and admitted students can pursue higher education at UB with less apprehension about covering the cost of obtaining a higher education degree.

Annual Fall to Fall

In Progress.

Strengthen, reimagine, grow and better coordinate pipeline programs for students of color.

Spring 2024

Completed.

Identify and recruit from Buffalo Public and WNY Schools Enrollment Pipelines.  (Originally recommended by the Community Engagement Committee)

Spring 2023

Increased engagement and participation in SUNY Top 10 promise

 

In Progress.

Articulate strategic diversity plans for recruiting, retaining, and graduating underrepresented student populations at the school and academic support department levels, including regular assessment of outcomes demonstrating  progress towards achieving a critical mass of representation from  these plans.

Fall 2024

Leveraging use of College Board Landscape tool to identify access to challenged districts and locations.

 

In Progress.

Conduct annual assessment of outcomes on articulated diversity plans.

Fall 2023

In Progress.

Provide transparent, regularly updated and easily accessed data on the President, Provost and University websites regarding race/ethnicity trends of Black, Indigenous and people of color (BIPOC) and other minority students, faculty, and staff as well as current programs and services.

Spring 2023

In Progress.