Fall Students in Washington Community and Technical Colleges
Fall 2010 Enrollment Report Washington Community and Technical Colleges In 2009-2010, colleges enrolled 16% more students than their legislative enrollment target. Colleges enrollment growth is remarkable because state funding was reduced by $82 million (11%) after the enrollment targets were set. In fall 2010, colleges enrolled a record 144,114 state supported FTES. This enrollment level is projected to maintain college over-enrollment by 14 percent above the legislative enrollment target by year’s end. However, this number of student FTES is nearly identical to fall 2009 enrollment, suggesting that colleges are at their peak capacity and that further budget cuts may reduce access.
Fall Students in Washington Community and Technical Colleges More than a quarter of a million students enrolled in the community and technical colleges in fall 2010 (268,005 students) with most of those students – 202,074 – enrolled in state-supported courses. The students served are very diverse: 30 percent are parents; 44 percent work full or part-time 28 percent are unemployed (2 percent higher than in 2009; 8 percent higher than 2008); Median age of students is older than traditional college students at 26 years of age; Over half attend part-time (52 percent taking less than 12 credits); 56 percent of students are female; Students are more race and ethnically diverse than Washington state – 36 percent are students of color (state – 25 percent of color).
Enrollments by Funding Source Total enrollments, 181,144 FTES (all funds) increased by 2,850 FTES. Nearly all of the growth was due to the increase in state and contract funded FTES with the latter accounting for 60 percent of the increase.
State-supported FTES were 80 percent of the total FTES. Colleges over-enrollments appear to have peaked. They grew by 1,156 FTES or just less than 1 percent ending the period of high (14 percent) growth between fall 2008 and fall 2009. State-supported Worker Retraining grew by 534 FTES, or 4.7 percent. This growth compares to a near doubling in enrollments since the recession. Again colleges appear to have reached the limits of their capacity.
Contract-supported FTES increased by 1,698 FTES, 5.4 percent. Running Start, which allows students to earn high school and college credits, enrolled 12,084 FTES. Running Start enrollments increased by 417 FTES or 3.6 percent, slightly slower growth than last fall’s 5.4 percent increase. Alternative High School and other contract programs with employers and the military and international students all increased.
Fall Enrollment FTES by Funding Source 200,000 150,000
Student Funded 100,000
Contract Supported State Supported
50,000 0 2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
Worker Retraining Enrollments
Worker Retraining FTES CTC and Retraining Private Career Colleges 552
548 Private Career Colleges
257 219
256
5,043
4,918
Fall 2006
Fall 2007
10,656
11,190
Fall 2009
Fall 2010
6,284
Fall 2008
CTC State-Supported Worker Retraining
Based upon their fall 2010 enrollments, colleges may enroll as many as 13,000 Worker retraining FTES in 2010-11. This projection is slightly higher than the 12,738 FTES served in all of last year. Employment Security forecasts unemployment will remain high this biennium with only modest relief.
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January 2011
Apart from Worker Retraining, no growth in the rest of Workforce Education Workforce education students enroll for a variety of purposes. One purpose as discussed is worker retraining. However, the majority are enrolled in preparatory training for new entry. Others are incumbent workers, attending to upgrade their skills. Total workforce education FTES increased by 21 percent between fall 2008 and fall 2009. Colleges enrolled 68,566 FTES in fall 2010, nearly identical to the year before. Apart from worker retraining, which benefitted from additional funds, no other type of student FTE increased.
FTES by Students Attending for Workforce Education 80,000 70,000 60,000 50,000 40,000 30,000 20,000 10,000 Fall 2006 Fall 2007 Fall 2008 Fall 2009 Fall 2010 All Other Workforce
WRT
Transfer increased slightly Students attending for Transfer increased by 1,116 FTES or 2 percent. This compared to 8.5 percent from fall 2008 to fall 2009.
3
January 2011
Basic skills course FTES decrease for second consecutive year. I-BEST also decreases Colleges continued to consolidate basic skills, reducing course effort by 684 FTES. Basic skills FTES have decreased by 7 percent since fall 2008. Colleges enrolled 1,492 I-BEST FTES in fall 2010. This compared to 1,531 FTES in fall 2009, a decrease of 39 FTES or nearly 3 percent.
Growth in eLearning slowing The system enrolled 25,708 FTES via eLearning in fall 2010. This was an increase of 684 FTES or 3 percent more than fall 2009. It brings to an end a remarkable two year period in which FTES increased 54 percent and suggests that colleges have reached their limits for the current state funded level in all types of instructional deliveries. Online learning FTES were flat in growth. Hybrid (face to face combined with online) increased by 844 FTES or 11 percent.
4
State-Supported eLearning FTES by Type
1,421 1,459 1,319 2,588
1,719
1,550
7,871
8,715
4,320
Hybrid
3,358
9,171
10,676
Fall 2006
Fall 2007
Other at a Distance
13,426
15,435
15,443
Fall 2008
Fall 2009
Fall 2010
Online
January 2011
Colleges trying stem growth in class size – a few more faculty, but reductions in all other classifications. Community and technical colleges employed 15,625 faculty and support staff from state funding sources in fall 2010. This represented a one percent increase from the year before. Colleges increased faculty, but reduced all other classifications. More faculty helped stem recent growth in class size. Student faculty ratio (state and contract) was 23.4 students per faculty in fall 2010. This compared to 21.4 in fall 2007, the year before the recession started.
Number of State-Supported Community and Technical College Employees 5,777 5,938 4,070 4,041
3,585 3,611
1,305 1,299
Full-Time Faculty, Teaching and NonTeaching
Part-Time Faculty, Teaching and NonTeaching Fall 2006
5
Fall 2007
Classified
Fall 2008
Professional/Technical
Fall 2009
755 736
Administrative
Fall 2010
January 2011
Change in State-Supported FTES Fall 2009
Fall 2010
Change
% Change
Bates
4,119
3,328
-791
-19%
Bellevue
8,611
9,153
542
6%
Bellingham
2,191
2,291
100
5%
Big Bend
1,768
1,814
45
3%
Cascadia
1,873
2,005
132
7%
Centralia
2,253
2,363
110
5%
Clark
8,521
8,565
44
1%
Clover Park
4,346
4,428
82
2%
Columbia Basin
4,667
4,476
-191
-4%
Edmonds
5,693
5,780
87
2%
Everett
4,788
4,982
193
4%
Grays Harbor
1,828
1,804
-24
-1%
Green River
5,490
5,933
444
8%
Highline
6,378
6,117
-262
-4%
Lake Washington
3,203
3,313
110
3%
Lower Columbia
3,344
3,390
46
1%
Olympic
5,157
5,357
200
4%
Peninsula
1,797
1,894
97
5%
Pierce Fort Steilacoom
3,462
3,385
-77
-2%
Pierce Puyallup
2,141
2,252
111
5%
Renton
3,552
3,681
129
4%
Seattle Central
5,536
5,387
-150
-3%
Seattle North
3,893
3,907
14
0%
Seattle South
4,249
4,139
-110
-3%
600
548
-52
-9%
Shoreline
4,938
4,654
-284
-6%
Skagit Valley
3,915
3,937
22
1%
South Puget Sound
3,933
4,004
72
2%
Spokane
6,087
5,629
-459
-8%
Spokane Falls
4,434
4,507
73
2%
Spokane Inst Extend Lrng
2,865
3,017
152
5%
Tacoma
4,713
4,976
263
6%
Walla Walla
3,264
3,154
-111
-3%
Wenatchee Valley
2,469
2,865
397
16%
Whatcom
2,926
3,102
175
6%
Yakima Valley
3,933
3,983
49
0.0
142,935
144,114
1,179
1%
Seattle Voc Institute
Total
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January 2011
Workforce and Transfer Missions Fall State-Supported FTES by College Workforce Education
Transfer
Fall 2009
Fall 2010
% Change
Bates
3,575
2,753
-24%
28
17
-40%
Bellevue
2,910
3,047
5%
4,863
5,123
5%
Bellingham
Fall 2009
Fall 2010
% Change
2,091
2,185
4%
Big Bend
392
1,027
162%
1,150
612
-47%
Cascadia
280
314
12%
1,420
1,505
6%
Centralia
839
941
12%
826
827
0%
Clark
3,609
3,707
3%
3,816
3,949
3%
Clover Park
4,069
3,810
-6%
27
47
78%
Columbia Basin
1,925
1,752
-9%
2,277
2,278
0%
Edmonds
2,354
2,361
0%
2,682
2,771
3%
Everett
2,012
2,067
3%
2,151
2,237
4%
899
903
0%
545
582
7%
Green River
2,012
2,205
10%
2,569
2,826
10%
Highline
1,721
1,778
3%
2,271
2,279
0%
Lake Washington
2,721
2,775
2%
242
278
15%
Lower Columbia
2,007
1,754
-13%
836
1,057
27%
Olympic
2,272
2,498
10%
2,471
2,401
-3%
913
870
-5%
679
820
21%
1,590
1,564
-2%
1,755
1,746
-1%
873
968
11%
1,115
1,138
2%
Renton
2,711
2,771
2%
164
182
11%
Seattle Central
2,368
2,417
2%
2,396
2,271
-5%
Seattle North
1,843
1,761
-4%
1,549
1,628
5%
Seattle South
2,081
1,980
-5%
1,206
1,224
1%
395
407
3%
3
1
Shoreline
2,106
1,825
-13%
2,123
2,087
-2%
Skagit Valley
1,989
2,157
8%
1,616
1,505
-7%
South Puget Sound
1,641
1,700
4%
2,038
2,036
0%
Spokane
4,572
4,184
-8%
1,433
1,355
-5%
Spokane Falls
2,406
2,411
0%
3,556
3,683
4%
Tacoma
1,787
1,883
5%
2,465
2,726
11%
Walla Walla
1,849
1,790
-3%
1,089
1,064
-2%
Wenatchee Valley
1,080
1,293
20%
1,171
1,370
17%
855
1,045
22%
1,909
1,909
0%
1,729
1,690
-2%
1,393
1,416
2%
68,472
68,590
0%
55,833
56,949
2%
Grays Harbor
Peninsula Pierce Fort Steilacoom Pierce Puyallup
Seattle Voc Institute
Whatcom Yakima Valley Total
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January 2011
State-Supported Basic Skills* Fall FTES by College Fall 2009
Fall 2010
Change
Bates
110
251
128%
Bellevue
430
508
18%
Bellingham
187
198
6%
Big Bend
218
155
-29%
Cascadia
143
151
6%
Centralia
356
395
11%
1,165
947
-19%
Clover Park
242
274
13%
Columbia Basin
441
396
-10%
Edmonds
861
827
-4%
Everett
659
688
4%
Grays Harbor
331
282
-15%
Clark
Green River
814
831
2%
2,359
2,027
-14%
Lake Washington
498
472
-5%
Lower Columbia
676
675
0%
Olympic
290
318
10%
Peninsula
228
197
-14%
Pierce Fort Steilacoom
493
388
-21%
Pierce Puyallup
312
319
2%
Renton
1,052
1,173
11%
Seattle Central
1,005
942
-6%
Seattle North
642
582
-9%
Seattle South
897
937
4%
Seattle Voc Institute
240
183
-24%
Shoreline
627
475
-24%
Skagit Valley
427
347
-19%
South Puget Sound
237
254
7%
Highline
Spokane Falls
1,833
1,919
5%
Tacoma
438
385
-12%
Walla Walla
341
333
-2%
Wenatchee Valley
223
199
-11%
Whatcom
179
176
-2%
Yakima Valley
811
875
8%
19,764
19,078
-3%
Total
*Note: Some basic skills FTES are taken by students in workforce and transfer and thus are counted in those missions too.
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January 2011
Fall Students in Washington Community and Technical Colleges More than a quarter of a million students enrolled in the community and technical colleges in fall 2010 (268,005 students) with most of those students – 202,074 – enrolled in state-supported courses. The students served are very diverse: 30 percent are parents; 44 percent work full or part-time 28 percent are unemployed (2 percent higher than in 2009; 8 percent higher than 2008); Median age of students is older than traditional college students at 26 years of age; Over half attend part-time (52 percent taking less than 12 credits); 56 percent of students are female; Students are more race and ethnically diverse than Washington state – 36 percent are students of color (state – 25 percent of color).
Enrollments by Funding Source Total enrollments, 181,144 FTES (all funds) increased by 2,850 FTES. Nearly all of the growth was due to the increase in state and contract funded FTES with the latter accounting for 60 percent of the increase.
State-supported FTES were 80 percent of the total FTES. Colleges over-enrollments appear to have peaked. They grew by 1,156 FTES or just less than 1 percent ending the period of high (14 percent) growth between fall 2008 and fall 2009. State-supported Worker Retraining grew by 534 FTES, or 4.7 percent. This growth compares to a near doubling in enrollments since the recession. Again colleges appear to have reached the limits of their capacity.
Contract-supported FTES increased by 1,698 FTES, 5.4 percent. Running Start, which allows students to earn high school and college credits, enrolled 12,084 FTES. Running Start enrollments increased by 417 FTES or 3.6 percent, slightly slower growth than last fall’s 5.4 percent increase. Alternative High School and other contract programs with employers and the military and international students all increased.
Fall Enrollment FTES by Funding Source 200,000 150,000
Student Funded 100,000
Contract Supported State Supported
50,000 0 2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
Worker Retraining Enrollments
Worker Retraining FTES CTC and Retraining Private Career Colleges 552
548 Private Career Colleges
257 219
256
5,043
4,918
Fall 2006
Fall 2007
10,656
11,190
Fall 2009
Fall 2010
6,284
Fall 2008
CTC State-Supported Worker Retraining
Based upon their fall 2010 enrollments, colleges may enroll as many as 13,000 Worker retraining FTES in 2010-11. This projection is slightly higher than the 12,738 FTES served in all of last year. Employment Security forecasts unemployment will remain high this biennium with only modest relief.
2
January 2011
Apart from Worker Retraining, no growth in the rest of Workforce Education Workforce education students enroll for a variety of purposes. One purpose as discussed is worker retraining. However, the majority are enrolled in preparatory training for new entry. Others are incumbent workers, attending to upgrade their skills. Total workforce education FTES increased by 21 percent between fall 2008 and fall 2009. Colleges enrolled 68,566 FTES in fall 2010, nearly identical to the year before. Apart from worker retraining, which benefitted from additional funds, no other type of student FTE increased.
FTES by Students Attending for Workforce Education 80,000 70,000 60,000 50,000 40,000 30,000 20,000 10,000 Fall 2006 Fall 2007 Fall 2008 Fall 2009 Fall 2010 All Other Workforce
WRT
Transfer increased slightly Students attending for Transfer increased by 1,116 FTES or 2 percent. This compared to 8.5 percent from fall 2008 to fall 2009.
3
January 2011
Basic skills course FTES decrease for second consecutive year. I-BEST also decreases Colleges continued to consolidate basic skills, reducing course effort by 684 FTES. Basic skills FTES have decreased by 7 percent since fall 2008. Colleges enrolled 1,492 I-BEST FTES in fall 2010. This compared to 1,531 FTES in fall 2009, a decrease of 39 FTES or nearly 3 percent.
Growth in eLearning slowing The system enrolled 25,708 FTES via eLearning in fall 2010. This was an increase of 684 FTES or 3 percent more than fall 2009. It brings to an end a remarkable two year period in which FTES increased 54 percent and suggests that colleges have reached their limits for the current state funded level in all types of instructional deliveries. Online learning FTES were flat in growth. Hybrid (face to face combined with online) increased by 844 FTES or 11 percent.
4
State-Supported eLearning FTES by Type
1,421 1,459 1,319 2,588
1,719
1,550
7,871
8,715
4,320
Hybrid
3,358
9,171
10,676
Fall 2006
Fall 2007
Other at a Distance
13,426
15,435
15,443
Fall 2008
Fall 2009
Fall 2010
Online
January 2011
Colleges trying stem growth in class size – a few more faculty, but reductions in all other classifications. Community and technical colleges employed 15,625 faculty and support staff from state funding sources in fall 2010. This represented a one percent increase from the year before. Colleges increased faculty, but reduced all other classifications. More faculty helped stem recent growth in class size. Student faculty ratio (state and contract) was 23.4 students per faculty in fall 2010. This compared to 21.4 in fall 2007, the year before the recession started.
Number of State-Supported Community and Technical College Employees 5,777 5,938 4,070 4,041
3,585 3,611
1,305 1,299
Full-Time Faculty, Teaching and NonTeaching
Part-Time Faculty, Teaching and NonTeaching Fall 2006
5
Fall 2007
Classified
Fall 2008
Professional/Technical
Fall 2009
755 736
Administrative
Fall 2010
January 2011
Change in State-Supported FTES Fall 2009
Fall 2010
Change
% Change
Bates
4,119
3,328
-791
-19%
Bellevue
8,611
9,153
542
6%
Bellingham
2,191
2,291
100
5%
Big Bend
1,768
1,814
45
3%
Cascadia
1,873
2,005
132
7%
Centralia
2,253
2,363
110
5%
Clark
8,521
8,565
44
1%
Clover Park
4,346
4,428
82
2%
Columbia Basin
4,667
4,476
-191
-4%
Edmonds
5,693
5,780
87
2%
Everett
4,788
4,982
193
4%
Grays Harbor
1,828
1,804
-24
-1%
Green River
5,490
5,933
444
8%
Highline
6,378
6,117
-262
-4%
Lake Washington
3,203
3,313
110
3%
Lower Columbia
3,344
3,390
46
1%
Olympic
5,157
5,357
200
4%
Peninsula
1,797
1,894
97
5%
Pierce Fort Steilacoom
3,462
3,385
-77
-2%
Pierce Puyallup
2,141
2,252
111
5%
Renton
3,552
3,681
129
4%
Seattle Central
5,536
5,387
-150
-3%
Seattle North
3,893
3,907
14
0%
Seattle South
4,249
4,139
-110
-3%
600
548
-52
-9%
Shoreline
4,938
4,654
-284
-6%
Skagit Valley
3,915
3,937
22
1%
South Puget Sound
3,933
4,004
72
2%
Spokane
6,087
5,629
-459
-8%
Spokane Falls
4,434
4,507
73
2%
Spokane Inst Extend Lrng
2,865
3,017
152
5%
Tacoma
4,713
4,976
263
6%
Walla Walla
3,264
3,154
-111
-3%
Wenatchee Valley
2,469
2,865
397
16%
Whatcom
2,926
3,102
175
6%
Yakima Valley
3,933
3,983
49
0.0
142,935
144,114
1,179
1%
Seattle Voc Institute
Total
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January 2011
Workforce and Transfer Missions Fall State-Supported FTES by College Workforce Education
Transfer
Fall 2009
Fall 2010
% Change
Bates
3,575
2,753
-24%
28
17
-40%
Bellevue
2,910
3,047
5%
4,863
5,123
5%
Bellingham
Fall 2009
Fall 2010
% Change
2,091
2,185
4%
Big Bend
392
1,027
162%
1,150
612
-47%
Cascadia
280
314
12%
1,420
1,505
6%
Centralia
839
941
12%
826
827
0%
Clark
3,609
3,707
3%
3,816
3,949
3%
Clover Park
4,069
3,810
-6%
27
47
78%
Columbia Basin
1,925
1,752
-9%
2,277
2,278
0%
Edmonds
2,354
2,361
0%
2,682
2,771
3%
Everett
2,012
2,067
3%
2,151
2,237
4%
899
903
0%
545
582
7%
Green River
2,012
2,205
10%
2,569
2,826
10%
Highline
1,721
1,778
3%
2,271
2,279
0%
Lake Washington
2,721
2,775
2%
242
278
15%
Lower Columbia
2,007
1,754
-13%
836
1,057
27%
Olympic
2,272
2,498
10%
2,471
2,401
-3%
913
870
-5%
679
820
21%
1,590
1,564
-2%
1,755
1,746
-1%
873
968
11%
1,115
1,138
2%
Renton
2,711
2,771
2%
164
182
11%
Seattle Central
2,368
2,417
2%
2,396
2,271
-5%
Seattle North
1,843
1,761
-4%
1,549
1,628
5%
Seattle South
2,081
1,980
-5%
1,206
1,224
1%
395
407
3%
3
1
Shoreline
2,106
1,825
-13%
2,123
2,087
-2%
Skagit Valley
1,989
2,157
8%
1,616
1,505
-7%
South Puget Sound
1,641
1,700
4%
2,038
2,036
0%
Spokane
4,572
4,184
-8%
1,433
1,355
-5%
Spokane Falls
2,406
2,411
0%
3,556
3,683
4%
Tacoma
1,787
1,883
5%
2,465
2,726
11%
Walla Walla
1,849
1,790
-3%
1,089
1,064
-2%
Wenatchee Valley
1,080
1,293
20%
1,171
1,370
17%
855
1,045
22%
1,909
1,909
0%
1,729
1,690
-2%
1,393
1,416
2%
68,472
68,590
0%
55,833
56,949
2%
Grays Harbor
Peninsula Pierce Fort Steilacoom Pierce Puyallup
Seattle Voc Institute
Whatcom Yakima Valley Total
7
January 2011
State-Supported Basic Skills* Fall FTES by College Fall 2009
Fall 2010
Change
Bates
110
251
128%
Bellevue
430
508
18%
Bellingham
187
198
6%
Big Bend
218
155
-29%
Cascadia
143
151
6%
Centralia
356
395
11%
1,165
947
-19%
Clover Park
242
274
13%
Columbia Basin
441
396
-10%
Edmonds
861
827
-4%
Everett
659
688
4%
Grays Harbor
331
282
-15%
Clark
Green River
814
831
2%
2,359
2,027
-14%
Lake Washington
498
472
-5%
Lower Columbia
676
675
0%
Olympic
290
318
10%
Peninsula
228
197
-14%
Pierce Fort Steilacoom
493
388
-21%
Pierce Puyallup
312
319
2%
Renton
1,052
1,173
11%
Seattle Central
1,005
942
-6%
Seattle North
642
582
-9%
Seattle South
897
937
4%
Seattle Voc Institute
240
183
-24%
Shoreline
627
475
-24%
Skagit Valley
427
347
-19%
South Puget Sound
237
254
7%
Highline
Spokane Falls
1,833
1,919
5%
Tacoma
438
385
-12%
Walla Walla
341
333
-2%
Wenatchee Valley
223
199
-11%
Whatcom
179
176
-2%
Yakima Valley
811
875
8%
19,764
19,078
-3%
Total
*Note: Some basic skills FTES are taken by students in workforce and transfer and thus are counted in those missions too.
8
January 2011
