SUNY Institute of Technology

1. SUNY Institute of Technology Transforming the Institute: Enhancing Quality and Meeting Regional Needs

2. Objectives • Meet regional manpower and economic development needs in mission fields • Attract additional students from outside the region to the Mohawk Valley • Stem the outflow of local high school graduates to colleges in other regions of the state • Work with community colleges and other partners to meet local unfulfilled curricular needs • Mitigate side effects of the SUNYIT transition on community college partners

3. Meeting Regional Manpower Needs • Labor force needs in catchment area exceeds capacity of local institutions • Almost 5,800 net annual job openings in the Institute’s mission fields within a two-hour radius of Utica/Rome • Additional 1,920 net annual job openings in fields for which the Institute will seek partnerships with other baccalaureate/masters providers • Total regional needs of over 7,700 jobs annually

4. Regional Manpower Needs: Net Annual Job Openings 2001-2008

5. Meeting Manpower Needs: Partnership Fields – Annual Openings

6. Regional Enrollment Patterns • Albany, Syracuse, Binghamton metro areas are all significant net exporters to SUNY campuses outside their region • Over 2,500 students annually enroll as first-time, full-time freshmen at SUNY campuses (not CCs) outside their home or adjacent county • Albany and Syracuse do not have four-year SUNY presence; particularly fertile areas for the Institute to recruit in – also geographically close. Cortland is in adjacent county to Binghamton but with very different curricular mix than SUNYIT

7. Regional Enrollment Patterns • Herkimer and Oneida counties are also large exporters of first-time, full-time freshmen to SUNY campuses outside their region (home or adjacent county) • Fall 1998 data (out-migration across region is 71.4%) • Herkimer exported 63; 89% of FT/FT students left region (8 to SUCO) • Oneida exported 335; 81% left region (Morrisville is in adjacent county) • Full four-year programs at the Institute should appeal to some of these students inducing them to remain locally.

8. Regional Enrollment Patterns • Consultants recommend focusing recruitment activities in Albany and Syracuse areas • SUNYIT may choose to extend focused along Thruway and I-81 axes from Watertown to Binghamton and Syracuse to Albany • Enrollment goal of 150-200 freshmen in proposed program mix, maintaining Tier I selectivity is feasible with focused recruitment These applicant pools have no negative impact on HCCC or MVCC Experience at UCT campuses shows different applicant pools for two year and four year programs

9. Program Mix • Art & Science Group asked to look at existing majors: • Maintain Tier I selectivity • Examine geographic origin of students • Examine uniqueness of program and competition with HCCC and MVCC • Data set were all freshman applications to state-operated campuses over a five-year period (n=374,000)

10. Program Mix: Major Findings • SUNYIT can not achieve enrollment goals with niche programs; Institute is unknown and niche programs are not well understood • 91% of likely applicants cluster in three areas • Computer Science and related majors • Business and related majors • Psychology

11. Consultant’s Program Mix Recommendations • Highly Recommended • Computer Science (includes BS/MS) • Business • Accounting • Psychology • Computer Engineering Technology • Mechanical Engineering Technology (adopted recommendations in green, rejected recommendations inred)

12. Consultant’s Program Mix Recommendations • Recommended • Sociology • Finance • Telecommunications • Applied Mathematics • Electrical Engineering Technology • Health Services Management • Health Information Management • Industrial Engineering Technology • Professional/Technical Communication

13. Program Not Considered by Consultant • General Studies • Sought as place to “park” students desiring to transfer internally to non-technical major that is not offered until junior year. SUNYIT does not seek authority to admit freshmen or lower-division transfer students into this major and would readily agree to explicit restrictions prohibiting lower-division direct entry into this program; also willing to look at other means to achieve this objective.

14. Academic Programs: New Programs • Institute will seek to develop following new majors: • Business Administration – MBA – expected to be on December Board of Trustees agenda • Science, Technology, & Society – BS • Advanced Technology – BS • Latter two programs are interdisciplinary; BSAT is more technically focused

15. Academic Programs: New Fast-track Programs • Industrial Engineering Technology (BS/MSAT) • Mechanical Engineering Technology (BS/MSAT) • Engineering Tech programs will differ from ET programs at MVCC; SUNYIT will follow the Buffalo State model – largely arts/science in first two years. Buffalo State has only two 100/200 level MET courses. Program will appeal to a different mix of students; will also appeal to some students who begin in Engineering.

16. Programs With Academic Partnerships • Civil Engineering Technology (joint with MVCC) • Electrical Engineering (joint with Binghamton) – could extend to Computer Engineering • Secondary Education (jointly with HCCC, MVCC, and comprehensive partner TBD)

17. Mitigating Side Effects on HCCC and MVCC • Best single predictor of number of students SUNYIT would attract is the number of transfer students received from HCCC and MVCC. • Two transfer years examined (Fall 1998 and Fall 2001) with virtually identical conclusions

18. Mitigating Side Effects • Fall 2001 – 423 new F/T students enrolled • 61 from HCCC • 100 from MVCC • Total 161 from local CCs • 56 entered into programs not offered at freshmen level • 105 Entered into programs to be offered at freshman level • 37 of these 105 were age >=25 – would have been unlikely to enroll here had we offered freshman studies • 68 Eligibles remain in pool

19. Mitigating Side Effects • Of the 68 remaining: • Not all would have applied Of those, not all would have been admissible Of those admitted, not all would have attended Likely worst-case scenario: impact is 30-35 students annually

20. Mitigating Side Effects • SUNYIT is willing to sub-contract with HCCC/MVCC for foreign language instruction; anticipated need 10 sections/semester. SUNYIT has no foreign language faculty. • SUNYIT is willing to sub-contract a yet to be determined amount of other instruction with some stipulations: • Course content is determined by SUNYIT faculty • Existence of administrative mechanisms to refuse assignment of faculty where performance is not considered satisfactory

21. Mitigating Side Effects • Joint admissions programs can be used to insure transfer opportunities to students who are frozen out because of increased selectivity in existing transfer programs.

22. End Result: Objectives Achieved - All Parties “Win” • Region is well served • Manpower needs addressed • Economic stimulus • New students brought into the area • Outflow of students is reduced • New educational opportunities are created • Greater cooperation among area colleges is achieved

23. End Result: Objectives Achieved - All Parties “Win” • Institute is strengthened • Enhanced selectivity • Enrollment stabilized; growth achieved • Side effects are mitigated • Worst-case 30-35 student impact on community colleges reduced through sub-contracting foreign language and/or other coursework • Enhanced enrollment potential for community colleges by meeting regional needs in secondary education • Joint admission agreements encourage students to remain at community college by exempting joint admission completers from transfer admission selectivity requirements