Beloit College board holds fall meeting

The board of trustees at Beloit College convened to hold their fall meeting Oct. 6-8.

Powerhouse and strategic enrollment management was chief among the topics discussed at the meeting. Also during the meeting, a new program was proposed by a student group that would focus on creating an avenue of communication and exchange between students of the college and trustees.

During the course of the weekend, strategic enrollment management, which is a planning process intended to aid in the shaping and monitoring of the student body’s size and composition, was discussed by a number of committees in their separate meetings. The topic will also be featured in February during a board retreat.

Along with monitoring the student body, strategic enrollment management also focuses on the students’ persistence when it comes to the finishing of their degrees as well as giving an overview of Beloit’s competitive marketplace, which considers demographics and the academic quality of students in many areas, including recruiting, access, campus facilities and revenue.

The board intends to implement the plan this coming spring, which would put it in place to impact the class of 2022, who would begin at Beloit in fall 2018.