Justice Studies - Department of Chemistry - San Jose State University

program, as assessed within the capstone course. The graduate curriculum committee is alsoconsidering developing an additional topical course in justice and inequality, to ensure that thecurriculum remains current and that graduate students have the opportunity to study emergingissues in the field.4. Students4.1 Analysis of Student Dataa. Status and trendsApplications. Applicants to the B.S. degree have increased steadily from 2002 to 2006 (the lastyear for which data is available). There were 304 freshman applicants in Fall 2002, 183 wereadmitted, and 49 enrolled. There were 805 freshman applicants in Fall 2006, 418 were admitted,and 102 enrolled—more than a doubling of freshman applicants, admissions, and enrollees in a4-year period. There were 177 transfer applicants in Fall 2002, 77 admissions, and 58 enrolled.In Fall 2006 there were 346 applicants, 233 admissions, and 125 enrolled—not quite a doublingof applicants, but more than doubling of admissions and enrollees. Although there were moretransfer applicants in Fall 2005 than 2006 (347 versus 346), there were more transfer admissionsand enrollments in 2006 than in any previous semester.Applications and enrollments in Spring semesters also show growth over time, but the numbersare smaller; 9 frosh applied in Spring 2003, 3 were admitted and 1 enrolled, as compared to 28freshman applications, 3 admissions and 1 enrollment in Spring 2007. As we would expect,transfer applications, admissions and enrollments in Spring semesters are greater. In Spring2003 there were 76 applicants, 32 admissions, and 26 enrollees, while in Spring 2007 there were165 applicants, 97 admissions, and 74 enrollees. The peak for Spring transfer applications wasin Spring 2005 (183 applicants), the peak for Spring transfer admissions was in Spring 2006 (116admitted), and the peak for Spring transfer enrollments was in Spring 2005 (77 enrolled).However, the decrease in enrollments from Spring 2005 to Spring 2007 was quite modest (downfrom 77 to 74).Thus, overall the department has shown significant growth in undergraduate enrollments in thelast four years.The M.S. program has seen more modest and uneven growth, from 36 applications, 26admissions, and 18 enrollees in Fall 2002 to 40 applications, 23 admissions, and 15 enrollees inFall 2006. Trends in Spring applications show a decrease over time, from 30 applicants, 22admissions, and 12 enrollments in Spring 2003 to 18 applicants, 9 admissions and 7 enrollmentsin Spring 2007. It appears that the current trend is for the bulk of graduate students to begingraduate study in the fall semester. Changes in application and enrollment rates in the M.S.program likely also reflect the higher GPA required for admission that was adopted during thereview period. Do we need to elaborate on this here if we cut it in the above section? No – it’salso covered in section 3.1.b. so I removed it from the executive summary.14