![]() ![]() There’s a reason why fewer and fewer students are enrolling in humanities programs like foreign languages, English, and history. If enrollments are low, it’s likely because students realize the program is either too difficult or does not have an ROI. The rpk Group analysis is based on enrollment number and completions (graduations). Based on that review, it’s not a surprise that the degree areas of above average enrollments and completions comprise only 16 percent of the System’s degrees. As I recall, there were four degrees out of more than 400 that accounted for half of all enrollments at KU. My review of the consultants’ presentation to the board as well as data available through College Navigator provides a glimpse as to how the existing degrees may be grouped. ![]() I liked the slide that rpk Group founder Rick Staisloff presented that displayed the intersection of college Mission, Market, and Margin. I wrote about the KU work with the rpk Group back in February. Given that the Board chair advised faculty and staff to review the final institution reports in January, I believe that there are no “secret” recommendations or decisions in process. I am also sure that the rpk Group engagement is part of a process to assist the Regents in evaluating and analyzing programs for consolidation and elimination. I’m sure that there are faculty and staff employed at the six KU System universities who believe that the rpk Group was hired by the Board of Regents to recommend degrees to be eliminated. According to the Board Chair, the purpose of the process analysis is not to eliminate programs but to ensure that a transparent and fair process is in place for future decisions made by the board. The Regents’ Chair reported that the board is not receiving the classifications of programs “as gospel.” He suggested that faculty and staff should review the consultants’ recommendations for each university and submit feedback once the final written reports are delivered in January. Garcia reported that Emporia State University received Regent approval this fall to “cut tenure and dismiss dozens of staff and faculty as part of a sweeping restructure of many of the university’s programs.” Last week, the Regents approved Fort Hays State University’s request to combine its College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences’ 11 departments into five in order to cut costs. Garcia reported that a KU professor who is also president of the faculty senate argued that duplication of degrees was necessary in many cases, and the Regents should carefully weigh their decisions to cut duplicate degrees.Īt least two of the six institutions are not waiting for the Regents to adjust their costs. The consultants reported that these enrollment patterns are similar to other institutions across the U.S. Not surprisingly, the bulk of the programs in the review and monitor category were in the arts, sciences, and humanities. The final category consisted of 177 programs (26 percent) that should be “reviewed and monitored” with clear expectations for enrollments and completions. There were 401 programs or 58 percent that were grouped into a category that should be “adjusted” to achieve better enrollment and graduation rates. Only 110 programs or 16 percent demonstrated above average enrollment, program growth, and completions. While stating that their review of the System’s collective academic portfolio should not be interpreted as a recommendation to cut specific programs, the rpk Group categorized the System’s 688 total programs into three groups. The Regents currently review programs on an institutional basis without looking at the System as a whole. ![]() Imho, Kopia requires reading documentation, while Dupliacti is very simple to set and run.A Topeka Capital-Journal article by Rafael Garcia reported recommendations from the rpk Group’s review of the Board of Regents analysis and approval of programs at the six state universities. But, on the other hand, Kopia approach to the structure of backup is pretty different than Duplicati, Kopia operates at repository level (something like virtual drives), where one put different source directories. So no worry about corruption of database or loosing configuration files. ![]() Also, main benefit of Kopia, for me at least, is all the configuration files are in the destination. Kopia doesn’t have native OneDrive client, yet. Restore times are similar though (Kopia restores Skyrim directory in about 2min, zstd-max). Duplicati (zip, default)- 3:18m - 928 MiBĭupliacti (zip, default) - 6:42m - 1.79 MiB ![]()
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