Future Enrollment in the SIU System
November 13, 2023
Members of the SIU System Community –
Over the past couple weeks, I’ve had the opportunity to make a presentation at SIUC and SIUE titled the Future of Enrollment at the SIU System: Challenges and Strategies. Thank you to everyone who took time out of their busy schedules to join me to learn about enrollment trends and projections and how they will affect our campuses.
These presentations are a bi-product of a white paper: “Future Enrollment in the SIU System” that I co-authored with Chancellor Austin Lane and Chancellor James Minor, as well as Dr. Sheila Caldwell, Vice President for Anti-Racism, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion and Dr. Gireesh Gupchup, Vice President for Academic Innovation, Planning, and Partnerships from the SIU System offices. In it, as with my presentations, we discuss how economics, population changes, decisions by policy makers, and trends in the delivery of higher education have led us to the enrollment challenges we have and will continue to face in the coming years.
Realizing where we’ve been is vital to understanding what we must do to move our campuses forward. Our document and my presentation offer many strategies that we need to undertake to successfully grow our campuses to overcome the headwinds we will face. How well we navigate this course and how successfully we work to secure our state appropriations will determine our success in the years to come.
Attached are the white paper and one of my presentations which you can see by clicking here.
Taking time to read it and/or watch the video will give you a better understanding of the united approach we are undertaking to grow our campuses in ways that utilize proven strategies at other universities; that are aligned with student success; and that allow each of us, in our own way, to make an impact on our students.
One of the most important aspects we must employ to meet our challenges is working together. I look forward to continuing to work with all of you to grow our campuses and offer our students now and in the future the opportunity to proudly say they are a graduate of an SIU campus. Thank you for all you do for the Southern Illinois University System.
Dan Mahony, President
