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On Friday, May 4, 2012, the ol' Station Keeper, worried about the fate of Texas State Technical College (TSTC) West Texas, addressed the TSTC System's board of regents during the public comments portion of the meeting.
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With the first day of class, May 7th, having come and gone, Summer 2012 enrollment is about over now, and the Texas State Technical College (TSTC) West Texas is about 24 students shy of the 664 students it managed to register for Summer 2011, which itself represented a 33.6% drop from Summer 2010's enrollment of 1,001 students. The good news is that the college didn't experience another catastrophic drop, and it almost made it to last year's enrollment. Enrollment this year only dropped a little over 4% compared to 2011.
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"Hey, did you answer all 25 of those math problems?" I shouted from the kitchen to my resident high school genius when he still lived at home in the 90's.
"Oh, yeah, Dad. They're all done. Can I use the phone?"
"Sure, son. Good job! Let me have a look first."
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The Texas State Technical College's quarterly board of regents meeting is being held in Waco today and tomorrow. Today is filled with committee meetings and such. Since tomorrow's agenda largely repeats today's because the regents have to approve whatever the committees do today, I'm just posting the May 4th agenda here. Be sure to look at the two lawsuits listed in the agenda, both of which will be discussed in closed session. A former associate vice chancellor is suing TSTC and Chancellor Mike Reeser in his official capacity. Apparently, the kiss goodbye didn't go so well.
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I had an interesting conversation today that has changed my outlook. I called a TSTC West Texas acquaintance of mine and wanted her perspective on the annual headcount drop from over 10,600 in FY 2007 to less than 2,000 in FY 2011, but she didn't offer her opinion about the drop. Instead, she said in a very friendly, sincere way that as an employee of the college she supported the decisions of its leaders 100%.
OK. I've been spending a BUNCH of time looking at the enrollment crash out there, but this individual didn't seem consumed by the issue at all. In fact, she was downright cheerful. I know the falling numbers to be true because I'm using TSTC West Texas and Co-Board data, but if the employees out there aren't concerned, then maybe I shouldn't be either.
Good luck, TSTC West Texas, and I mean that sincerely. I'll be watching from afar and keeping my fingers crossed, but I've reported on the crash until I'm blue in the face. I'm finished reporting on it, and I'm moving on.
[LATE ENTRY: After publishing the post above, I ended up discussing it with a half-dozen people. Their consensus was to keep on keepin' on. While I plan to reduce the number of posts I make regarding TSTC in general and TSTC West Texas in particular, I will continue to make posts periodically. I agree with those who spoke to me: TSTC West Texas is just too important a resource to the region to just turn one's back.]
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With classes beginning Monday, May 7th, it, indeed, appears that the Texas State Technical College West Texas Summer enrollment has hit the wall. At least the college's registration didn't skid into that barrier until the last lap.
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The Texas State Technical College (TSTC) West Texas and its employees are in crisis. Enrollment has and is falling at an unsustainable rate in terms of the number of employees that beleaguered campus has now. Let us examine the situation using TSTC numbers the college provided to the Legislative Budget Board and the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board data.
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With today's post I intend to drive a stake through the heart of the lame excuse that the Texas State Technical College (TSTC) West Texas huge, deep and profound enrollment drop is entirely the result of the loss of dual credit and academic students, thereby implying that it was all on purpose and the rest of us should go back to sleep.
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I hadn't heard much regarding the status of the Texas State Technical College (TSTC) System General Counsel Ray Rushing's case lately, so I started poking around a bit for an update.
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It turns out that high school dual credit enrollment is or should be a critical concern for college administrators because every one of those students is a walking, talking advertisement for any college sponsoring dual credit courses.
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