The Quad

The College hosted its Fall A&S Blood Drive; we had 86 volunteers and 63 units of blood were collected.

The Community Blood Center reports, 45 of our donors were first-time donors.

Tuition Bases of A&S Majors in Spring Semester, 2012    

 The ethnic distribution of the total of 599 A&S students enrolled in Masters level work in Spring, 2012 was as follows: Asian 1.5%; Black/African American 10.4%; Hispanic/Latino 6.2%; White 64.9%; All Other 17%.

In Spring 2012, 63.9% of the A&S undergraduate students were full-time while 41.2% of A&S graduate students were full-time.

Among the 3,592 students in A&S programs of study during Spring Semester 2012, 656 were listed in the Freshman Class, 710 were Sophomores, 940 were Juniors and 1,286 were Seniors.  Females constituted 59.5% of the Freshman group, 58.7% of the Sophomores; 58.2% of the Juniors and 57% of the Seniors.

Enrollment in A&S Student credit hours for Spring 2012 dropped by more than 6% over Spring 2011 but remained among the higher Spring SCH enrollments in the past 10 years at 68,837.

Total A&S Enrollment Headcount for Spring Semester 2012 was 5,605.  88% were enrolled in undergraduate programs and 12% were in graduate programs.

Editor’s Note: Several of this issues “Fast Facts” refer to pageviews as measured by Google Analytics where a pageview is defined as a view of a page on your site that is being tracked by the Analytics tracking code. Data provided by Alia Herrman, University Communications.
   

The percentage of new visits to A&S sites was 54% during the period August through December 2011. 57% of all visits came from outside Kansas City, MO. 8% of all visits came from outside the United States.

The top A&S websites in terms of relative percent of pageviews in the period August through December, 2011 were: A&S Home page and Chemistry at 8%; Economics and Psychology at 7%; Mathematics/Statistics at 6%; English and Physics at 4 %; History and the Writing Center at 3%. The remaining other academic departments combined were at 3%. (Theatre site views could not be measured by UMKC.)

The A&S College spent more than $6,700,000 on student scholarships and fee remissions in FY 2011. $5,035,417 was debited from the College’s tuition income by the campus to contribute to the automatic scholarship pool for the campus. The College paid $1,297,296 from its own accounts to cover student fee remissions. And more than $369,000 was paid out from A&S-based scholarship fund accounts.

Between August and December 2011, the Websites in the College experienced an average of 94,000 pageviews per month.  In every month during that period the College had more views than any other academic unit at UMKC.  The average pages visited per visit was 3.12.