THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT ASHEVILLE

FACULTY SENATE

Senate Document Number 1009S

Date of Senate Approval 01/22/09

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Statement of Faculty Senate Action:

Sense of the Senate Resolution

The Senate asks the Institutional Development Committee to insist that plans for future growth be fully debated and discussed by the University Planning Council to increase the chances that integrated, coherent, and widely accepted growth decisions are made, particularly when they are at variance with the Task Force on Enrollment Growth and University Size Report dated April 28, 2005. Task Force on Enrollment Growth and University Size

**************** Chancellor Ponder's Response March 18, 2009 ****************

The Sense of the Senate Resolution of January 22, 2009 was brought before the University Planning Council (UPC) by the Chair of the Institutional Development Committee (IDC) on February 18, 2009. Both the IDC and the UPC affirm that any changes in enrollment plans are to be debated in UPC to assure that any growth decisions are integrated, coherent, and widely-accepted.

The statements that occasioned the Sense of the Senate Resolution were reviewed and compared to the document generated by the Task Force on Enrollment Growth and University Size and subsequent documents that related to that document (/The “Size” Question: A Function of Quality 7-1-2006/, /The Optimal Size of UNC Asheville – 2007, /and /Building Capacity at UNC Asheville – 2008). /The UPC did not see a discrepancy between the stated goal of adding approximately 100 full-time students a year each year for the next ten years and the targets suggested by the documents. Should enrollment increase at precisely that rate, given the number of full time students enrolled at the time the Task Force made its recommendation, the school should still be within the 10 percent window that was outlined in the Enrollment Growth documents.