Higher Education Opportunity Act (HEOA) Disclosures

Student Body Diversity Fall 2023

The Higher Education Opportunity Act (2008) requires institutions to provide information about the student body diversity, including the percentage of enrolled, full-time students in the following categories:

• ​Gender
• Self-identified members of a major racial or ethnic group
• Federal Pell Grant recipients

Total Full-time Undergraduates (1) = 4,081

Gender

Female = 2,213 (54.2%)

Male = 1,868 (45.8%)

Race/ethnic subgroups

American Indian or Alaska Native = 1 (<0.1%)

Asian = 62 (1.5%)

Black or African American = 126 (3.1%)

Hispanic/Latino = 348 (8.5%)

Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander = 3 (0.1%)

Nonresident Alien = 60 (1.5%)

Race and ethnicity unknown = 129 (3.2%)

Two or more races = 107 (2.6%)

White = 3,245 (79.5%)

Financial Aid Status

Recipients of a Federal Pell Grant (AY 2022 – 23) (2) = 529 (13.2%)

Total Full-time Graduates(1) = 214

Gender

Female = 105 (49.1%)

Male = 109 (50.9%)

Race/ethnic subgroups

American Indian or Alaska Native = 0 (0.0%)

Asian = 1 (0.5%)

Black of African American = 8 (3.7%)

Hispanic/Latino = 12 (5.6%)

Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander = 0 (0.0%)

Nonresident Alien = 22 (10.3%)

Race and ethnicity unknown = 1 (0.5%)

Two or more races = 12 (5.6%)

White = 158 (73.8%)

1) Based on IPEDS Fall Enrollment Survey, submitted Spring 2024, which does not include Fall study abroad students and only credit-seeking students.

2) Information for Pell Grants recipients is based on the 2023-2024 submitted IPEDS Student Financial Aid survey which reports the prior year’s institutional financial aid information. For aid year 2022-23, N reported to IPEDs = 3,996.

Graduation Rates for Full-Time, First-Time, Degree-Seeking Undergraduates (Cohort 2017)

The Higher Education Opportunity Act (2008) requires institutions to provide their completion and graduation rate information disaggregated by:

• ​Gender
• Major racial and ethnic subgroup (as defined in IPEDS)
• Recipients of a Federal Pell Grant
• Recipients of a subsidized Stafford Loan who did not receive a Pell Grant
• Students who did not receive either a Pell Grant or a subsidized Stafford Loan​

		Time to Degree
Category	Number of Students1	4 Years	5 Years	6 Years
Overall	1,062	86.3%	87.7%	87.9%
Gender
Female	563	86.0%	87.4%	87.4%
Male	499	86.8%	88.0%	88.4%
Race/ethnic subgroups2
American Indian/Alaska Native	<5	–	–	–
Asian	18	77.8%	77.8%	77.8%
Black or African American	41	68.3%	70.7%	70.7%
Hispanic/Latino	108	76.9%	80.6%	80.6%
Native Hawaiian/Other Pacific Islander	<5	–	–	–
Nonresident Alien	19	84.2%	84.2%	84.2%
Race/ethnicity unknown	46	76.1%	82.6%	82.6%
Two or more races	15	80.0%	80.0%	80.0%
White	810	89.6%	90.2%	90.5%
Financial Aid Status3
Recipients of a Federal Pell Grant	148	79.7%	81.8%	81.8%
Recipients of a subsidized Federal Loan who did not receive a Pell Grant	329	87.5%	89.7%	90.0%
Students who did not receive either a Pell Grant or a subsidized Federal Loan	585	87.4%	88.0%	88.2%
Student Right-to-Know4
4-year average Student Right-to-Know completion or graduation rate				86.9%
4-year average Student Right-to-Know transfer-out rate				10.8%

1) All graduation rate data are based on the 2017 revised cohort as reported to IPEDs on the Spring 2023-2024 Graduation Rate survey.

2) Graduation rates for American Indian/Alaskan Native are not included in this table because there were too few of these students to be able to report their graduation rates with confidentiality.

3) Provided by the Office of Financial Aid, based on 2017-18 Aid Year only.​

4) Based on 2014-2017 entering students, who graduated or transferred within 6 years.

Retention Rates

The Higher Education Opportunity Act (2008) requires institutions to make available the retention rate of certificate – or degree-seeking, first-time undergraduate students as reported to IPEDS.

Fall 2022 Total = 1,154

Returned in Fall 2023 = 1,052

Retention Rate = 91.2​%