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University freshman enrollment increases
KU student ambassadors Allie Melendez and David Stine lead a campus tour for incoming freshman and their parents outside of the KU Center on Nov. 11. Melendez is a junior from Los Angeles, California and Stine is a senior from Olathe.
EMILY WELLBORN @EmWellborn
Despite a decrease in Kansas high school seniors' enrollment in higher education, the University has still seen an increase in freshman enrollment.
During the February Board of Regents meeting, the Regents discussed how the number of Kansas high school seniors has decreased by 10 percent since 2012.
"We were aware of that," said Lisa Pinamonti Kress, the director of Undergraduate Admissions. "Anytime there is just a trend of high school graduates being on the decline, that means that's even more competition for all of the universities."
The Regents cited "an improving economy, rising tuition costs, and higher admission standards" in their Feb. 15 meeting's minutes as possible reasons for the decline.
The total number of in-state, first-time freshmen at the University decreased by 108 students in those five years, but overall the total number of first-time freshmen has increased by 462 students since 2012, and by 46 students in the past year. Pinamonti Kress said this is because of increased recruitment for out of state students.
"Because we knew about that we definitely did some initiatives," Pinamonti Kress said. "We also knew we needed to go out of state and recruit students out of state just because there was a decline with the high school
graduating classes in Kansas."
Pinamonti Kress said that some of these new initiative included increasing the number of out of state representatives from two to eight across the country. These representatives are University graduates located in Chicago, Dallas, Omaha, Nebraska, Denver, Minneapolis, St. Louis and San Diego who meet with potential students. She said that Undergraduate Admissions had worked on focusing more on out-of-state students to help with the decline.
"We've always wanted to make sure they know what KU can offer," Pinamonti Kress said. "We want to make sure we're competitive amongst all state universities. We really want students who are going to be successful here choose KU."
Breeze Richardson, the director of communications for the Regents, said the report would affect more community colleges than the University.
"43.5 percent of high school seniors enrolled in these institutions in the Fall of 2012, compared to just 35.8 percent in the Fall of 2016," Richardson said in an email. "A smaller decline was reported in high school senior enrollment in the state's public universities (state universities and Washburn), reporting 30.0 percent enrolling in the Fall of 2012 compared to 27.1 percent in the Fall of 2016."
In the same February meeting,the Regents discussed a new task force to look into how to reach out to first generation college students, a project that they believe will indirectly help with the decrease in admissions.
"The Board responded by establishing a task force to explore how first-generation students are navigating the postsecondary world," Richardson said. "In March they formally charged the task force and named its membership."
The Regents decided that admissions factors — "like affordability, proximity to their home, and programs offered," according to the minutes — were similar between first-generation students and other students that might not be interested in higher education. The
UNION FROM PAGE 1
The charges against Redo Your U were brought by Lev Comolli, the cofounder of KU Against Rising Tuition (KUART). Comolli accused the group of bribery and campaign violations.
However, the Elections Commission also suggested that KUART eliminate or at least scale back their campaigning against the referendum.
Tommy Finch, a sophomore from Lawrence who argued with Comolli on behalf of KUART, viewed this as unfair.
"I do think it is a little unfair that these sanctions are supposed to apply to both groups, even though only one of them is accused of actually violating the rules and has been found guilty of violating the rules," Finch said.
Finch said he wishes the commission would have removed the referendum from the ballot but is pleased that the commission punished the Redo Your U group for premature campaigning.
"It's good to see that the Elections Commission was able to find them guilty of early campaigning," Finch said.
Kassandra Valles, a senior from Mission, and Collin Cox, a sophomore from Alliance, Nebraska.
argued on behalf of Redo Your U.
"I'm glad that we stayed on the ballot because I think if we'd have been removed, it would have been a disservice to the student population," Valles said. "It's unfortunate that we were requested to cease our campaigning, and we will be seeking an appeal for that."
"I think that the students deserve to have access to that information because if it comes down to it at the end of the day that good faith doesn't go through, and it's just KUART campaigning against us, then we have no support," Cox said.
Cox said students deserve to have information on the Union renovation that will be removed as a result of the Elections Commission's decision.
Though the Union group was not charged with bribery, KUART offered evidence to show that they did. KUART accused the Union group of bribing students with items such as candy, tacos, money and other goods.
"I feel deeply disheartened that we are just now finding out about this," Cox said. "Being a week prior to the day of the vote, I feel it was though this was a blatant and malicious attempt to try to swallow the Redo Your U from advancing," Cox said.
"We need to disqualify them," Comolli said. "We need to remove them, and at the very least we need to make it publicly understood that their coalition has been practicing non-transparent, fallacious
Redo Your U will attempt to appeal the decision. In contrast, KUART will continue to persuade students not to vote for the Union renovation, Cox said.
"We plan on getting this message out that, yes, Redo Your U did violate campaign rules and was found guilty of violating campaign rules and then just bringing people back to our arguments," Finch said. "Hopefully, we can get some more attention and more votes."
often challenges students by conducting difficult discussions in her classes.
means and briberous (sic) means to advocate for a marketing campaign that the students do not truly and genuinely want."
"We have been using incentives as a means of outreach and information, and there's never been a quid pro quo or a yes to vote for any of this," Valles said.
Valles said the actions of Redo Your U were completely legal.
PROTEST FROM PAGE 1
"If there were guns on campus, I would feel much more scared to have discussions that pushed and challenged my students," she said during the event.
The commission debated for nearly an hour to discuss the matter that the Redo Your U called unprecedented.
Students both in support of and against campus carry watched the event and participated in discussions following. One student, campus carry supporter Scott Johnston, said he appreciated hearing what the protesters had to say, even if he didn't agree.
"I believe Second Amendment rights should be consistent," Johnston, a sophomore from Berryton, said.
Johnston said having concealed carry banned on campus when it's allowed off campus is not fair to gun carriers.
Senior Joseph Shelton from Lawrence disagreed, saying that there is no logic to the argument for allowing guns on campus. He said he hopes the protest helps show state legislators that they should take action on the still-pending efforts to stop campus carry that is currently stuck in committee.
Edited by Casey Brown
task force will be looking into these admissions factors.
It includes presidents and student body presidents from Kansas colleges and universities, including University Student Body President Stephonn Alcorn.
Edited by Mara Kubicki
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