EWU strives to provide the opportunity for traditional college-bound students, non-traditional students, and students from under served populations in the Inland Northwest and beyond to obtain a high quality education and earn a marketable degree.
Increase the student headcount from 12,279 to 13,611 by 2023
Increase headcount of first-time-in-college (FTIC) students from 1,671 to 2,250 by 2023
Increase percentage of FTIC racial/ethnic minority UG students from 35.9% to 42.5% by 2023
Increase percentage of new racial/ethnic UG transfer students from 22.20% to 39.50% by 2023
Increase percentage of first-generation UG students from 48.50% to 49.80% by 2023
Increase percentage of FTIC lower-income UG students (Pell grant recipients) from 40.20% to 44.85% by 2023
Learning
EWU strives to equip students with the skills and knowledge needed for them to be informed citizens of the world and successful in their chosen careers.
At least 85% of (EWU’s 143 undergraduate programs and 45 graduate programs) will submit an annual assessment report on student learning (i.e., their program learning outcomes) by 2023
Students will have successfully met the target for at least 75% of the total program learning outcomes assessed at the University by 2023
Students will have successfully met the target for at least 75% of the Institutional Learning (GE) Outcomes assessed at the University by 2023
By 2023, 75% or more of students will participate in formalized co-curricular learning activities
Completion
EWU strives to support our students to earn undergraduate and graduate degrees.
Increase six-year graduation rates for all students from 47% of (average of the Entering Classes of 2012-17) to 51% by 2023
Increase six-year graduation rates for underrepresented students (American Indian or Alaska Native; Asian; Black or African American; Hispanic/Latino; Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander; or two or more races) from 32% (average of the Entering Classes of 2012-17) to 40% by 2023
Increase six-year grad rates of first-generation students (as defined by neither parent having completed a four-year degree) from 45% (average of the Entering Classes of 2009-11) to 51% by 2023
Increase six-year grad rates of low SES students (as defined by Pell recipients) from 44% (average of the Entering Classes of 2009-11) to 51% by 2023
