Wednesday, February 3, 2010
FOR FRIDAY -- NEW BLOG
As indicated in Blackboard, let's practice graphs by looking at some Shaw data. So, go to Course Documents in Blackboard and download the Shaw University Fact Book. It's all sorts of fascinating information about the institution -- you'll have so much fun reading it! So, select some graph that is useful and discuss its meaning in the blog. Enjoy!
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ok I guess I'll be first to really comment. The graph that i choose is the freshman first time erollment headcount graph. This really intrigued me because of the numbers from students from each state. How is it that the majority of first time shaw students are mainly from norh carolina. You would never know that if we just went by all of the types of cultural differences we see everyday at shaw. From the clothes, music, and differernt kinds of slain we hear. This really shocked me because for three years i thought that most of the shaw population came in from the states above the mason dixie line and of course the DMV.
ReplyDeleteI also decided to look at the Head Count Enrollment of first time freshmen by state of legal residence. The statistics are very shocking i mean most students are from North Carolina indicating Shaw U does not attract out of state high school graduates as much as it attracts high school graduates from North Carolina. I also took the initiative to look at the headcount of different counties in North Carolina who were first time freshmen students and by looking at it i was able to determine not only do most first time freshman at shaw are from North Carolina but they are from the exact same county which is Wake county.
ReplyDeleteFirst of all what is the DMV? Secondly, I did not know that Shaw U does not accept some applications(no offense). I learn something new everyday. Anywho, the graph is about the number that applied, number accepted/percentage accepted, and number enrolled/percentage of enrolled through 2004-2009 for freshman and transfer students. Here is a statistic, In 2008-2009, 5,468 freshman applied as an undergraduate at Shaw University.
ReplyDeleteValessa, I also noticed since I am native to VA, I noticed that there were only 48 students that were from Va. That was weird because everybody that I meet is either from Va or Nc.
ReplyDeleteI have never heard of Shaw until my senior year because of my friend's mother graduated from Shaw University. I think that if they make Shaw more known like making commercials or such to advertise the school. They would probably get diverse student population not saying that we do not but it would make it more known around the country.
I should proof-read before hitting post comment I meant it was 48 students in the year 2008-2009 that were from Va.
ReplyDeleteRachel Weathers.....
ReplyDeleteI chose the Full Time Undergraduate Headcount Enrollement, Fall Semester graph on page 9. There are 3 pieces of information on this graph: How many full time men, how many full time women, and how many full time total. Then underneath the actual number of each category is show for 5 different academic years. By looking at this graph I see that there are more women enrolled than men but that the gap between then men and women stay the same. This graph could be used for many differnt things. For example by knowing how many women are enrolled Shaw could know how many females they would be able to accomodate with rooms.
The graph that I picked was Undergraduate Enrollment By Residency, Fall Semester (pg 10).
ReplyDeleteThis graph compares 4 academic years of enrollment of students between NC residents and out of state residents. Throughout the 4 years there have been more NC residents then instate residents attending Shaw University.
Cachet Hobson
ReplyDeleteThe graph that I chosed was The full-time enrollment by classification, Fall Semester. In 2007-2008, there were 587 students who were enrolled into Shaw University as first time Freshman Students. As the 4 years went on, there has been less students to continue there education as students at Shaw University.
Sorry guys... The graph was on (pg 8).
ReplyDeleteI chose Undergraduate HC Enrollment by Ethnicity,, Fall Semester:
ReplyDeleteIn 2008-2009 2.4% of students enrolled at Shaw were Caucasion/White,non-Hispanic. The trend is, from 2004-2009 the percent of Caucasion/white,non-Hispanic students enrolled at Shaw has increased from 1.7 to 2.4%. This is interesting to me because, as a historically black college although the numbers aren't that high,(actual HC 59)we may become the minority in our own institutions.
On page 6 of the fact book there is a graph about First-Time Freshman High School Class Ranks for the fall semester. According to the chart most of first time freshman students overall rank mostly in the 8th tenth of their high school's class ranking between the years of 2004 to 2009. So basically I think that the data shows that Shaw is a school that allows people a second chance in a sense. The school seems to recruit or accept more lower ranking students than anything.
ReplyDeleteI choose to do the Graduate/First- Professional Headcount Enrollment by gender by Gender and Status for the Fall Semester. One trend that I see is full-time enrollment has increased since 2004. Since 2004 more males have enrolled as full-time students at Shaw. In 2008-2009 Shaw had 222 students graduate which is the highest since 2004.
ReplyDeleteI looked at the first time freshmen enrollment and the continuing freshmen. In 2006-2007 the first time freshmen student count was 669 the largest first time freshmen count in the data. but also the number of continuing freshmen that returned was also the highest of all the data with a number of 229. It makes me wonder why 229 students return to shaw.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Cj Middlebrooks. Just from being on campus and interacting with everyone, I would say Virginia had the most students enrolled.
ReplyDeleteI also realized that looking at the numbers of students form up north states such as Pennsylvania, New York, Connectiut or New Jersey isn't as big as I thought it was.
It also seems like overal 2006-2007 had the most students from each state. Out of the five different years listed, that year seems to be the peak for atleast 18 of the states and regions listed.
LaQuita
I also looked at the first time freshman high school ranks graph and realized that one trend is that: the amount of shaw students who were ranked in the 1st tenth of their high school class, is the least each year. It's never higher then people in the 2nd, 3rd tenth etc
ReplyDeleteThe majority of first time freshman from 2004-2009 were ranked in the 8th tenth of their high school class
in 2008--2009, 7% of first time freshman were ranked in the 3rd tenth of their high school class.
LaQuita
Well, I chose the Full-Time Equivalent Enrollment by Classification, Fall Semester: In the 2005-2006 Academic year 181 Graduate/First Professional students were in enrolled in the fall semester.
ReplyDeleteHey greenfield my computer is not downloading the facts
ReplyDeleteMelvin Brockington
ReplyDeleteDr.G, I cant download the shaw data. I have windows xp, can you please send me a document that is compatible.
On page two their is a chart that shows the headcount enrollment of the first time freshman by state. In this graph being that im a resident of NC I looked at the chart and saw that each year the percent of NC students made up a larger percent of enrollemnt then other states. As more NC residents enroll the percentage of total hc changes the percentage. For example the larger the enrollment the more the percentage goes up.
ReplyDeleteOn page 19 one trend on the graph titled Graduate/First professional headcount enrollment by gender. Is that the full time males each year at shaw from 2004-2009 have always been more then the part time males. A Stat on this graph is that from 2004-2005, 193 male and female graduate & first professional student enrolled into shaw from 2004-2005
If Anyone is having issues getting to the shaw u info here is the link...
ReplyDeletehttp://shawu.blackboard.com/courses/1/SSC20001_sp2010/content/_126539_1/Shaw%20U%20Fact%20Book.pdf?bsession=1396829&bsession_str=session_id=1396829,user_id_pk1=2742,user_id_sos_id_pk2=1,one_time_token=BF9A99878F20EF630A92BD0027B6EF6F
If this does not work it just means your pdf viewer or your adobe reader is out of date...
Thanks, Mr. Pearson!
ReplyDeleteI have chosen to talk about the undergraduate admissions for the fall semester. Looking at Shaw's data I find that there were 5,486 freshman who applied to Shaw University in the fall of 2008-2009. Only 2,034 freshman's were accepted (wow). According to what the graph says that was 37% of the freshman accepted. Only 556 freshman enrolled and according to what the graph says that is 27% of the freshman enrolled. Looks like Shaw gets a whole lot of applications and they deny more people then I thought.
ReplyDeleteI chose the graph on pg.49, Graduate/First-Professional head count enrollment by Gender and FT/PT status for fall semesters.It was interesting to compare full-time to part-time enrollment by gender. A bar graph was used to show this data. I noticed that the overall total enrollment has been on a slow, steady increase, for 193 in 2004-05, to 222 in 2008-09.
ReplyDeleteIn looking at all the graphs I found out alot of neat things...the graph number 2...you can see that in the academic year for 2008-2009 there were 57% of the students transfer enrolled and 27% freshmen enrolled.
ReplyDelete-alicia hill
well everyone said something about the graph that was most interesting to me so I'll talk about the one that you have to turn your head to read. It was the comparative graph. I noticed that shaw had less percent of people admitted compared to st. aug but more students enrolled. I think that the data tells a story that shaw is doing something to make their potential students commit.
ReplyDeleteShandrea Thomas...
ReplyDeleteI chose the graph on page 20 “ Undergraduate Headcount Enrollment by residency Fall Semester”. This graph show a time frame from 2005-2009 headcount of NC residents and out of state residents at Shaw University. For NC residents 2005-2006 academic year had the highest undergraduate headcount. As the years pass the number of NC residents undergraduate decease.
As for out of state residents in the academic year 2005-2006 there were 846 undergraduate headcount. However within the next two academic years the headcount for undergraduate increase to 982 but the headcount decrease the following school year.
Theres only two statements I can conclude from reading this graph: 1. the students are not coming back because of a number of reasons or 2. Shaw is not doing much to make sure the numbers of undergraduatae increase which mean they need to do a better job in recuirting high school students.
Like everybody else I found where shaw students come from interesting. I chose the undergrad enrolement by residency fall semester. I always wonder why is it that most of the students at shaw are out of state residence. In 2008-2009 1609 out of state undergrad students were enrolled at shaw in the fall.
ReplyDeleteSeemeandbez Is Jamaar Hosier
ReplyDeleteI choose the fall 2007 to Fall 2008 retention rates by field of study on page 20. The graph shows how many 2007 first time freshman students were in each field of study. The graph show that in 2007 the most first time freshman were in the business administration/management program. The graph show the percent of student retained to the university fit fall 2008 by field of study. The graph also shows the percent of students retained majors in fall 2008. Zero percent of the students with a major in English was retained to the university for fall 2008. Only 19% of the students studying criminal justice retained their major in fall 2008.
ReplyDeleteRosa Saavedra
ReplyDeleteOK - so I am still practicing reading graphs and expressing the data in sentence form. So I looked at two graphs that were of the most interest to me. The first one (GRAPH 1) is the one that represents undergraduate headcount enrollment by state of legal residence, Fall Semester, years represented are: 2004-2005; 2005,2006; 2006-2007; 2008-2009. I also used the data from the graph (GRAPH 2) representing Undergraduate headcount enrollment of NC residents by home county, fall semester, years represented are same as GRAPH 1, to make some comparison. GRAPH 2 indicates that for year 2008-2009 fall semester 30.5% of undergrad students from NC enrolled at Shaw their home county was Wake County. While GRAPH 1 indicates that that for that same period of time the percent of all undergrad students enrolled at Shaw U only 19.5% were from Wake county. If GRAPH 1 is misinterpreted or read incorrectly it could give the reader the impression that nearly one third (1/3) of all Shaw U undergrads during that time period were Wake county residents. Bu that is only the picture if you use only students from NC to draw that conclusion. It is a different story if you look at GRAPH 2 which is utilizes different residency criteria. In GRAPH 2 we are looking at students from all states and other regions. GRAPH 2 was also interesting because I was able to see the number of students from each state or region and track thier increase or decrease through that period of time. I think that this is useful information because it could help with recruitment of future students. like for example I see that enrollment of undergrads from Virginia went from 137 in yr2004-2005 to 198 in yr 2008-2009 so that represents a 44.5% increase (new-old /old 198-137=61...61/137=.445 =44.5%) So what might the factors be that influenced this increase - what kind of active recruitment efforts are going on in VA or is it a result of non-active recruitment but more of a word of mouth thing. So students from VA could be surveyed to find out how they came to find out about Shaw and what were the deciding factors for them.