Degree Programs Offered (As of Spr. 10)
Elective Classification: N/A
Baccalaureate Degrees Awarded 0 20 40 60 80 100 120 140 160 180 Bachelor's 2005-06 2009-10 170*
Baccalaureate Degrees Awarded by Group 0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 2005-06 2009-10 2005-06 2009-10
Black Hispanic Pell
Baccalaureates by Group as Percentage of Total NCF Baccalaureates 32.0% 28.8% 2.1% 1.6% 8.9% 8.9% 0% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25% 30% 35% 2005-06 2009-10 2005-06 2009-10 Black Hispanic Pell
*2011-12 Targets for Research & Development Expenditures.
BOARD OF GOVERNORS – STATE UNIVERSITY SYSTEM GOAL 3:
BUILDING WORLD-CLASS ACADEMIC PROGRAMS AND RESEARCH CAPACITY BOARD OF GOVERNORS – STATE UNIVERSITY SYSTEM GOAL 2:
MEETING STATEWIDE PROFESSIONAL AND WORKFORCE NEEDS
Academic Research and Development Expenditures
$0 $100 $200 $300 $400 $500 $600 $700 $800 $900 $1,000
Federal Only Total - All Sources Thousands
2004-05 2008-09
$800,000* $1M*
Baccalaureate Degrees Awarded in Select Areas of Strategic Emphasis, 2009-10 43 0 10 20 30 40 50 Bachelor's STEM**
** Although NCF offers only one degree, students are able to specialize in certain disciplines. These students specialized in the STEM fields.
2012-13 Target: Maintain (2008-09 Baseline: 49 Total)
Key University Achievements
► Student awards/achievements
1. Seven Fulbright U.S. Student Program Scholarships awarded to New College graduates for 2010-2011. 2. Nine students awarded NSF Research Experience for
Undergraduates (REU) grants (summer of 2010). 3. Student Emily Moser’s research paper published in the
peer-reviewed Journal of Veterinary Behavior.
► Faculty awards/achievements
1. Dr. Frank Alcock, Political Science, named Senior Fulbright Scholar to New Zealand for research and lecturing (2011).
2. Dr. Mariana Sendova, Physics, participated in NSF- ADVANCE-PAID project focused on horizontal mentoring of senior women in chemistry and physics faculty at liberal arts colleges (2010).
3. Dr. Maria Vesperi, Anthropology, received American Anthropological Assn./Oxford U. Press Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching (2009).
► Program awards/achievements
1. Chinese program awarded CIBER grants for courses in Chinese culture, social practices, and language. (2010) 2. IT received 5-year CampusEAI Consortium
myCampus Portal Grant to cover costs/services. (2010)
► Research awards/achievements
1. Dr. Stephen Shipman, Chemistry, awarded research time on TeraGrid’s computational network. (2010) 2. Dr. David Harvey, History, Franklin Research Grant,
American Philosophical Society. (2010)
3. Dr. Gordon Bauer, Psychology, NSF award for “Manatee Vibrissae-A Mammalian Lateral Line?” (2010)
► Institutional awards/achievements
1. Forbes.com ranked NCF the 15th best public college in
America. (2010)
2. U.S. News and World Reports ranked NCF No. 5 among all public liberal arts colleges in the U.S. (2010) 3. 2011 Fiske Guide to Colleges highlights NCF as one of 45 “best buy schools” in the U.S., U.K., and Canada.
BOARD OF GOVERNORS – STATE UNIVERSITY SYSTEM OF FLORIDA GOAL 4:
MEETING COMMUNITY NEEDS AND FULFILLING UNIQUE INSTITUTIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES
New College offers an undergraduate liberal arts education of the highest quality, in which students are academically challenged and engaged, and have significant gains in critical thinking and independent research competencies.
New College regularly participates in the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE), which has become a nationally recognized indicator of academic quality. New College’s NSSE benchmarks support its claims of providing a superior academic environment. New College anticipates similar results in the 2011 NSSE.
• The level of academic challenge that NCF students report is consistently higher than students at Carnegie peer institutions, at Council of Public Liberal Arts (COPLAC) member institutions, and by all freshman and seniors taking part in the survey. • The level of enriching educational experiences reported by NCF students is significantly greater than reported by students at
Carnegie peer institutions, at COPLAC member institutions, and by all NSSE 2008 respondents.
Furthermore, during their first two semesters, the Fall 2008 entering cohort significantly increased their CAAP Critical Thinking scores, and ranked first in critical thinking among 31 small colleges participating in the 2008 Wabash National Study of Liberal Arts Education. NCF theses compared favorably with six peer institutions in a 2009 external assessment of undergraduate senior theses. New College practices intellectual and civic leadership in local and regional Florida communities. Students, faculty, and staff work toward identifying, highlighting, and meeting community needs.
• More than half of graduating seniors from the last four years (2007-2010) report engagement in volunteer efforts, contributing a combined total of 45,000 hours to a wide range of activities with nearly 300 organizations.
• The Pritzker Marine Biology Research Center (PMBRC) frequently hosts workshops for local K-12 teachers to enrich their teaching and science understanding. PMBRC also hosts summer workshops for local middle and high school students from disadvantaged backgrounds, providing them with college-level science lab experience.
• New College students regularly tutor children at the Boys and Girls Club, and participate in the local Next Step Tutoring program. This program helps foster youth complete the GED, pass the FCAT, and prepare for the SAT.
• The entire campus annually participates in the Mayor’s Feed-the-Hungry Campaign and the Holiday Adopt-A-Family program, and supports the United Way and a host of ad hoc charity programs.
• Professor Frank Alcock is a Fellow at the Collins Institute for Public Policy and a primary author of the Century Commission’s report on “Potential Impacts of Oil and Gas Exploration in the Gulf of Mexico.”
**Graduation Rate from SAME Institution.
* The composition of "Other Transfer" cohorts may vary greatly by institution and by year.
** FTE for this metric uses the standard IPEDS definition of FTE, equal to 30 credit hours for undergraduates and 24 for graduates.
Undergraduate Retention and Graduation Rates
64.7% 66.7% 50.0% 68.3% 0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100% Others - 2001-2006 Others - 2005-2010. AATs - 2002-2006 AATs - 2006-2010 FTICs- 2000-2006 FTICs - 2004-2010
Graduated from NCF Graduated from Other SUS Institution Still Enrolled at NCF Still Enrolled in Other SUS Institution
6-Yr Rates for FTIC Cohorts
n = 189
n = 10
[n < 10]
n = 34 4-Yr Rates for AA Transfer Cohorts
5-Yr Rates for Other* Transfer Cohorts
2008-13 Target**: More Than 62.5% 2007-13 Target**: 65%
2009-13 Target**: 70%
n = 12 [NCF data not separable from USF for this cohort.]
Student-to-Faculty Ratio 0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 2005-06 2006-07 2007-08 2008-09 2009-10
Appropriated Funding Per Actual Student FTE**
$0 $5,000 $10,000 $15,000 $20,000 $25,000 $30,000 2006-07 2007-08 2008-09 2009-10 2010-11
General Revenue Per FTE Lottery Funds Per FTE Other Trust Funds Per FTE Student Fees Per FTE Total Per FTE
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INTRODUCTION
Mission Statement of New College of Florida:
New College offers an undergraduate liberal arts education of the highest quality in the context of a small, residential public honors college with a distinctive academic program which develops the student's intellectual and personal potential as fully as possible; encourages the discovery of new knowledge and values while
providing opportunities to acquire established knowledge and values; and fosters the individual's effective relationship with society. Vision, Guiding Principles, and Goals
New College of Florida, the 4-year residential liberal arts honors college of the State of Florida, preserves its distinctive mission as a residential liberal arts honors college. To
maintain this mission, New College of Florida has the following goals:
• To provide a quality education to students of high ability who,
because of their ability, deserve a program of study that is both demanding and stimulating.
• To engage in undergraduate educational reform by combining
educational innovation with educational excellence.
• To provide programs of study that allow students to design their
educational experience as much as possible in accordance with their individual interests, values, and abilities.
• To challenge undergraduates not only to master existing bodies
of knowledge but also to extend the frontiers of knowledge through original research.
New College pursues these goals through highly selective
admissions, an individualized and intensive "academic contract" curriculum, frequent use of individual and small- group instruction, an emphasis on student/faculty
collaboration, a required senior thesis or project, and
innovative approaches to the modes of teaching and learning. Other Introductory Contextual Comments
New College is a small, innovative, residential honors college with 825 students and 66 tenure/tenure track faculty. Eighty percent of all students are residential. Each student works directly with a faculty sponsor to plan his or her academic career.
BOARD OF GOVERNORS – STATE UNIVERSITY
SYSTEM GOAL 1: ACCESS TO AND PRODUCTION OF DEGREES
New College provides Florida high school graduates the opportunity to attend a small, highly selective residential liberal arts and sciences honors program, where they can obtain the type of education normally characteristic of expensive, private institutions.
Access to high quality honors liberal arts for Florida students:
• The College attracts highly motivated, academically talented students and retains them in Florida for their undergraduate education.
• This in-state access to a challenging, nationally ranked, undergraduate liberal arts and sciences program provides
an important option for high-achieving Florida undergraduates.
• New College students are overwhelmingly Florida
residents (83%) and receive their high school education in public schools (85%).
New College relies on highly qualified faculty and small class sizes to ensure the high quality of its honors program:
http://www.ncf.edu/about-us/presidents- welcome/publications/fact-books
• Ninety-nine percent of New College’s regular faculty members have earned a doctorate or the terminal degree in their field.
• Eighty-seven percent of New College classes have 30 or fewer students.
• The average class size is 19 students. • The student to faculty ratio is 10:1.
• Eighty-seven percent of New College classes are taught by full-time faculty.
Honors access for underrepresented students
• During the period of 2004-05 though 2009-10, New College awarded 881 Bachelor Degrees, an average of 147 degrees each year (Table 5D).
• One-third of the graduates in 2009-10 (29%) were Pell recipients (Table 5F).
• Between AY 2004-05 and AY 2008-09, New College has increased its recruitment, retention, and graduation rates for underrepresented students in general, with particular marked growth in the population of Hispanic students; the
number of Hispanic graduates has increased by 113% from 2003 to 2009 (Spring).
• The percentage of minority students in the student body increased from 13% to 17% from fall 2003 to fall 2009; the
number of minority students increased by 70%:
http://www.ncf.edu/uploads/1Q/PU/1QPUEPJEGemT YpKrU9Ut3g/New-College-Equity-Report-2009-BOT- Approved-2.pdf
High quality education at lower cost
• As Florida’s designated Honors College, New College provides students a unique opportunity to acquire a residential liberal art college education for a fraction of the cost they would pay at similar private colleges.
• The New College academic program consistently ranks in the upper tier of numerous national rankings and its academic program may be considered comparable to those of many prestigious private liberal art colleges.
• Despite recent budget reductions, New College continues to maintain a high quality educational program at a much smaller instructional cost per FTE when compared to high quality private peer institutions.
BOARD OF GOVERNORS – STATE UNIVERSITY SYSTEM GOAL 2: MEETING STATEWIDE
PROFESSIONAL AND WORKFORCE NEEDS
New College, as a four-year liberal arts and sciences honors college, provides advanced training in critical thinking, scientific inquiry, and communication skills. The students are well-prepared to enter the workforce and to continue their training in professional and graduate programs.
• Seventy-one percent of alumni from 1996 to 2006 reported enrolling in at least one graduate or professional program since graduation.
• The graduate/professional school attendance rate for students one year after college (2006 graduates) was 55% and five years after college (2002 graduates) was 73%. Six years after graduation, graduate and professional school attendance rates were close to or above 80%.
• Sixty-one percent of those who reported attending graduate or professional school received some type of financial support; 44% received scholarships, a validation of the value of their New College undergraduate training. • The majority of New College students consistently enroll
in graduate and professional programs within the State of Florida. The most frequently attended institutions were: o Medical Schools: University of Florida and University
of South Florida.
o Law School: University of Florida.
o Doctoral Institution: University of Florida. o Masters Degree Institutions: University of South
Florida, Florida State University, and University of Florida.
From 2005 to 2010, over half of New College’s graduates have concentrated their undergraduate studies in three critical needs areas that the Board of Governors identified as areas of strategic emphasis:
• Science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) (28%). • Economic development—regional workforce demand
(9%).
• Economic development—globalization (22%).
The New College academic program also provides the necessary foundation for New College graduates to pursue careers in industries directly related to two other critical needs areas identified by the Board of Governors: *
• Education (34% of employed alumni report working in education).
• Professional and business services (26% of employed alumni report careers in professional and business services).
• Health professions (18% of employed alumni report careers in health services).
*Data Source: NCF 2007-2008 Alumni Survey Report
http://www.ncf.edu/uploads/79/dE/79dEKjLCt4_hxIiEhzD hLA/2007-2008-Alumni-Survey-Study-Report.pdf
BOARD OF GOVERNORS – STATE UNIVERSITY SYSTEM GOAL 3: BUILDING WORLD-CLASS
ACADEMIC PROGRAMS AND RESEARCH CAPACITY