The University of Illinois: Scaling Up for the Knowledge Age

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The University of IllinoisScaling Up for
theKnowledge Age

• Charles V. Evans, Burks Oakley II,
• and Chester S. Gardner
• University of Illinois
• November 15, 1999

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University of Illinois

• One university with three campuses
• Chicago
• Springfield
• Urbana-Champaign

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IT-Related Programs

• University of Illinois at Chicago
• Electrical and Computer Engineering, Computer
  Science, Information Decision Sciences
• University of Illinois at Springfield
• Computer Science, Management Information Systems
• University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• Electrical and Computer Engineering, Computer
  Science, Library and Information Science,
  Management Information Systems

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UIUC EE CompE

• Undergraduate degree programs in the College of
  Engineering

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UIUC Computer Sci.

• Undergraduate degree programs in the College of
  Engineering LAS

includes Math/CS and Statistics/CS
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Student Quality

• Mean ACT Composite
• CS CompE EE
• Fall 1994 29.6 29.1 28.4
• Fall 1995 29.5 28.5 28.7
• Fall 1996 29.6 29.3 29.3
• Fall 1997 29.7 29.5 29.8
• Fall 1998 30.7 29.5 30.1
• Fall 1999 30.4 29.9 29.9
• 29 ACT 1280-1300 SAT
• 30 ACT 1310-1350 SAT

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UIUC EE and CS

• Graduate degree programs in the College of
  Engineering

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UIUC Comp. Science

• Graduates at all levels

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UIC EE and CompE

• Undergraduate degree programs in the College of
  Engineering

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UIC CS and CompE

• Undergraduate degree programs in the College of
  Engineering

Fall data
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UIUC M.I.S.

• Undergraduate degree program in the College of
  Commerce and Business Administration

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UIUC M.I.S.

• Number of employers recruiting on-campus with an
  interest in MIS grads

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UIS M.I.S.

• Graduate degree program (MS) in the College of
  Business and Management

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UIC I.D.S.

• BS in Information Decision Sciences in the
  College of Bus. Administration

GPA requirements increased
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UIUC New Program

• In response to the demand from students in all
  majors to learn more about information science,
  the School of Library and Information Science has
  created a new undergraduate minor in Information
  Science.
• http//www.lis.uiuc.edu/gslis/program/isminor.html

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Who hires our graduates?
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UIUC M.I.S. 97-98

• Anderson Consulting 7
• PriceWaterhouseCoopers 4
• System Software Associates 4
• Ernst Young 2
• PeopleSoft 2
• Others 17
• Arthur Anderson, BankOne, Caterpillar, Deloitte
  Touche, etc.

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UIUC Engineering

• BS degree, Aug. 1997 Aug. 1998
• (1) Motorola 48
• (3) Anderson Consulting 18
• (7) Intel 8
• MS degree, Aug. 1997 Aug. 1998
• (3) Motorola 6
• (7) Anderson Consulting 3
• (8) Intel 3
• (9) Lucent - 3

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UIUC Engineering

• Ph.D. degree, Aug. 1997 Aug. 1998
• (1) Motorola 8
• (2) Intel 7
• (3) Hewlett-Packard 6
• (4) Argonne National Laboratory 5
• (7) IBM 3
• (8) Lucent 3
• (9) Schlumberger 3

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What about people who cant travel to a campus?
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What are we doing?

• The Internet has created a new medium for
  connecting people to the University of Illinois
• The University of Illinois Online initiative was
  started in January 1997

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What is U of I Online?

• Focus on computer-based communication via the
  Internet
• public-service activities
• short courses
• regular courses
• professional development sequences
• certificate programs
• degree programs

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U of I Online

• Primary focus on continuing education and
  masters degree programs
• Well-defined market
• Self-motivated, focused, sophisticated learners
• Address the needs of underserved citizens of the
  State of Illinois
• Deliver programs in high demand

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Examples of U of I Online Programs

• M.S. in Engineering (Electrical, etc.)
• Master of Computer Science (M.C.S.)
• M.S. in Management Information Systems
• M.S. in Library and Information Science

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UIUC Library and Information Science

• LEEP scheduling option (MS degree)
• Began with 31 students in Fall 1996
• From as far away as Alaska and Vermont
• Average age was 41 years old
• Currently 55 in-state and 59 out-of-state
  students enrolled
• 51 students have completed MS degree

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UIUC Library and Information Science

• Students have enrolled from Illinois and 36 other
  states, Virgin Islands, DC
• Canada, France, Colombia, Japan, and Thailand
• Faculty has grown by 4.5 FTE
• Budget has increased by more than 500,000

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UIUC LIS Program

• Graduate degree program in the School of Library
  and Information Science

Fall data
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UIUC Engineering, F99

• 15 online graduate courses
• Including Computer Science, Electrical
  Engineering, Math
• 285 student enrollments
• Students from India, Nebraska, California,
  Illinois, New Jersey, Ohio, Colorado, New Mexico,
  and Minnesota

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UIUC Comp. Science

• 10 graduates from M.C.S. program in India
• All awaiting H1B visas
• 6 have offers from by KPMG

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U of I at Springfield

• Fall 1998 1 online course, 30 enrollments
• Spring 1999 13 online courses, 207 enrollments
  (gt92 retention!)
• Fall 1999 24 online courses, 476 enrollments
• Two online degrees
• BA in Liberal Studies
• MS in M.I.S.

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Growth of U of I Online

• 1997-98 -- 68 online courses, approximately 1300
  course enrollments
• 1998-99 -- more than 150 online courses,
  estimated 2800 course enrollments
• 1999-00 -- more than 250 online courses,
  estimated 4500 course enrollments
• Our goal is to have more than 10,000 course
  enrollments by 2001-02.

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Demand-Capacity Mismatch

• How can we scale our enrollments to meet the
  demand of the IT industry?
• Need to hire additional faculty
• Lack of Ph.D. students in the pipeline
• Competition from the IT industry itself
• Space limitations

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IT Costs at UIUC

• CS CompE
• Current enrollment 1062 683
• Current faculty size (FTE) 35 16
• Target enrollment (50 increase) 1600 1025
• New faculty 27 14
• Recurring cost of 140k per new faculty
• Recurring total 3.8M 2.0M
• Non-recurring cost of 1.2M per faculty --
  start-up package and space (4000 GSF/faculty _at_
  250/GSF)
• Non-recurring total 32.4M 16.8M
• U.G. StudentFaculty 201 in CS, 251 in CompE

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Challenges

• Lack of Ph.D. students in the pipeline
• Graduate fellowships
• Space limitations
• Where to put 41 new IT (CS, CompE) faculty?
• How to fund all this growth?

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Links Contact Info

• http//www.uillinois.edu/
• http//www.uic.edu/
• http//www.uis.edu/
• http//www.uiuc.edu/
• http//www.online.uillinois.edu/
• http//www.online.uillinois.edu/oakley/
• Charles V. Evans (cevans4_at_uillinois.edu)
• Burks Oakley II (oakley_at_uillinois.edu)
• Chester S. Gardner (cgardner_at_uillinois.edu)