TCAC
July 2000 Report Index
Index to Appendices
Because UW Bothell and UW Tacoma have only upper division undergraduate programs, the full-time student nominally stays two years (Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, Computing and Software Systems, Business Administration) or one year (RN to BSN in Nursing). However, given the number of part-time students and other circumstances, the average time to graduation is greater than two years and greater than one year respectively.
Even so, the recruitment and admissions efforts necessary to replace the previous year's graduates each new year are roughly double that of a four-year university of the same size with a similar mix of students. The actual numbers for UW Bothell for the 1998-1999 year are as follows. In the fall quarter of 1998, UW Bothell served a head count of 1213 individuals and a student FTE of 866. Approximately 461 students will graduate by the end of the summer quarter 1999. Thus, just to "stay even" for the fall of 1999 (i.e., with no growth), 461 new students, 38% of the population from the previous fall, must be admitted.
Orientation of students to the policies and standards at UW Bothell and UW Tacoma also presents special challenges. Clearly, this cannot be done at all during the freshman and sophomore years because, of course, these years at UW Bothell and UW Tacoma do not exist.
Another related issue is that UW Bothell and UW Tacoma obviously have less influence over the 100 and 200 level courses taken by their students than exists within a four-year school. Further, because UW Bothell and UW Tacoma are not permitted to offer 100 or 200 level courses, they can not utilize this common mechanism to "fill gaps" that incoming students may have in their backgrounds.
For faculty and staff alike, these facts translate into a workload larger than that found at a four-year university of the same size with the same mix of students.
August 10, 1999
TCAC
July 2000 Report Index
Index to Appendices
