Tuesday, March 30, 2010

ESL in Context: The Numbers Tell a Story

Part III in a Series - Domestic / International Balance

This brief Q & A provides the answer to the question in the last poll, at least it does for the last complete academic year.

Q: What is the balance between international and domestic students in the ESL Department?
A: It has historically been about half and half. In the academic year 2008-2009, ESL enrolled an average of 208 international and 215 domestic students each of the three semesters. That's 49% international and 51% domestic.

Tuesday, March 23, 2010

ESL in Context: The Numbers Tell a Story

Part II in a Series - Subsequent Enrolment

Q: What do domestic and international ESL students do after their ESL courses.
A: In 2008-2009 58% of domestic and 73% of international students continued to take ESL and a variety of other courses at Douglas College.

Q: Which courses did they take?
A: After Winter Semester 2009, just a year ago, here is what they took...

Domestic Course Regs Int Course Regs
NO COURSE 76 NO COURSE 89
EASL-0360 40 EASL-0460 44
EASL-0460 35 EASL-0360 37
EASL-0260 32 CSIS-1110 37
EASL-0350 22 PHIL-1101 33
EASL-0250 14 EASL-0350 29
ENGL-1130 11 ECON-1150 23
EASL-0450 10 ACCT-1110 22
ACCT-1110 8 ENGL-1130 22
CSIS-1110 8 MATH-1125 21
EASL-0375 7 EASL-0260 19
EASL-0365 7 PSYC-1100 17
PSYC-1100 7 CRIM-1100 14
EASL-0635 6 EASL-0250 12
ECON-1150 6 BUSN-1210 12
FINC-1231 5 CSIS-2200 10
BUSN-1210 5 FINC-1231 9
ACCT-1210 4 MARK-1120 9
CRIM-1100 4 MODL-1171 9
PHIL-1101 4 MATH-1120 8
CSIS-2200 3 MATH-1110 8
DVST-0411 3 EASL-0365 6
ECED-1121 3 ACCT-1210 6
APSC-1110 3 BUSN-2429 6
MATH-1125 3 EASL-0375 6
ECED-1122 3 ECON-1250 5
MUSC-1151 3 HORM-1325 5
BUSN-1320 3 CMNS-1115 5
CHEM-1210 3 HORM-1145 5
DVST-0410 2 BUSN-1320 5
BIOL-1103 2 MODL-1191 5
HCSW-1100 2 HORM-1115 5
HCSW-1140 2 EASL-0160 4
CFCS-1110 2 MATH-1220 4
SOCI-1125 2 CRIM-1150 4
HCSW-1120 2 BIOL-1110 4
PHYS-1104 2 CMNS-1104 3
ACCT-1222 2 CHEM-1108 3
POLI-1102 2 GEOG-1110 3
MODL-2271 2 PSYC-1200 3
ENGL-1099 2 ANTH-1100 3
HCSW-1130 2 SPSC-1192 3
HCSW-1150 2 BUSN-1198 3
ECED-1100 2 SOSC-2140 3
OADM-1256 2 HORM-1420 3
BUSN-1198 2 ECON-1101 3
CMNS-1115 2 MODL-1101 3
CMNS-1216 2 HORM-2310 2
CMNS-1110 2 MATH-1101 2
MATH-1120 2 ENGL-1106 2
HCSW-1110 2 MATH-1191 2
CFCS-1121 2 PEFA-1116 2
HORM-1115 1 PHYS-1110 2
CMNS-1104 1 EASL-0450 2
OADM-1240 1 SOCI-1125 2
HIST-1103 1 BIOL-1210 2
MUSC-2311 1 HORM-2330 2
DVST-0355 1 CHEM-1110 2
MUSC-1102 1 APSC-1110 2
MUSC-1230 1 HORM-2415 2
MUSC-1156 1 MODL-1151 2
OADM-1245 1 CHEM-1210 2
ACCT-1235 1 EASL-0345 2
SPSC-1105 1 HORM-2445 2
MUSC-1111 1 MODL-1192 2
HIST-1114 1 ENGL-1099 2
MUSC-1121 1 PSYC-2301 1
MUSC-1120 1 SPSC-1313 1
MUSC-1141 1 ANTH-1112 1
OADM-1238 1 HORM-1120 1
MATH-1191 1 PSYC-2315 1
BIOL-1209 1 BUSN-3350 1
MUSC-2320 1 HORM-2240 1
BUSN-2429 1 HIST-1104 1
MODL-1171 1 MATH-1105 1
MATH-1101 1 GEOL-1120 1
CHEM-1110 1 POLI-1102 1
OADM-1103 1 CHEM-1104 1
MUSC-2310 1 MARK-2150 1
MATH-1220 1 GEOG-1160 1
ENGL-1106 1 CSIS-1175 1
ENGL-1102 1 PHIL-1103 1
MODL-1192 1 ENGL-1102 1
DVST-0455 1 GEOG-1100 1
MUSC-1160 1 PEFA-1102 1
DVST-0210 1 BIOL-1109 1
MARK-1120 1 ASTR-1105 1
PHYS-1170 1 PSYC-1110 1
BUSN-2252 1 PHYS-1104 1
CSIS-1175 1 DVST-0411 1
GEOL-1200 1 CMNS-1105 1
CHEM-1108 1 SPSC-1105 1
SOSC-2140 1 HIST-1103 1
GEOG-1120 1 ACCT-1235 1
HORM-1145 1 POLI-1101 1
PHYS-1110 1 MODL-2291 1
HORM-1325 1 FINC-2210 1
MUSC-1203 1 PHYS-1107 1
GEOG-1100 1
HORM-1420 1
MUSC-1103 1
EASL-0345 1
DOPT-1100 1
ECON-1250 1
MUSC-2350 1
EASL-0160 1
SOCI-1145 1
MUSC-1150 1
MUSC-1110 1
DOPT-1112 1
MODL-1101 1
WSGR-1100 1
EASL-0150 1
MODL-1191 1
ACCT-2320 1
Though they are not separated, these are two columns, one for domestic students and the other for international, each showing the course registrations made after our ESL students completed their Winter 2009 Semester.

Sunday, March 21, 2010

ESL in Context: The Numbers Tell a Story

Part I in a series - Enrollment Q & A

ESL Enrollment

Q: How many students enroll in ESL courses at Douglas College?
A: In the last complete academic year, 2008-2009, the average number of students enrolled was 423.

Q: How many students do we have right now?
A: We currently have 807 course registrations, which means a minimum of 404 students.

Q: How many sections are running this Winter 2010 Semester?
A: 43 sections.

Q: How does our present enrollment compare to that of previous years?
A: It is lower than 2004/2005, when we had more than 485 each semester, but rising each year after that.

Q: Is ESL the largest department in the college?
A: Possibly so. In terms of course registrations divided by the number of courses a full-time student normally takes, ESL has consistently had the largest student full-time equivalent (FTE) in the college since 2004. This is a rough, unofficial estimate of FTE.

Q: What is total college enrollment?
A: In 2008-2009 there were 66,421 course registrations. If full-time students take an average of eight 3-credit courses per year, that's 8,303 FTE students. This is also a rough, unofficial estimate of FTE. Taking into account part-time students, the actual enrollment at Douglas is about 14,000.

Q: What percentage of the college's enrollment is ESL?
A: It is between 6 and 7%. In the 2004-2005 year it was 9%.

Q: How does this percentage compare to that of other large departments?
A: Psychology enrolls 6% and Nursing 5%.

Do these statistics raise other questions? Ask them in a comment to this post.

Next post: Subsequent Enrollment: Where do students go after taking ESL courses?