Some Statistics on Student Involvement
According to Banner, 88.9% of our students are currently involved in a student organization, study abroad and/or an internship for credit. These data do not include internships for which students do not receive academic credit.
In terms of GPA, I was able to get the data for those students participating in student organizations.
|
Year (Spring Semester) |
Membership in Student Organizations |
Semester GPA |
Cumulative GPA |
|
2009 |
Not a member |
3.05 |
3.14 |
|
Member |
3.27 |
3.34 |
|
|
2008 |
Not a member |
3.12 |
3.20 |
|
Member |
3.28 |
3.35 |
|
|
2007 |
Not a member |
3.12 |
3.19 |
|
Member |
3.28 |
3.36 |
|
|
2006 |
Not a member |
3.11 |
3.21 |
|
Member |
3.30 |
3.36 |
The National Survey on Student Engagement (NSSE) gives us a way to compare Truman student participation in student organizations with other Universities. NSSE asks students to identify the time they spend “participating in co-curricular activities (organizations, campus publications, student government, fraternity or sorority, intercollegiate or intramural sports, etc.)” If we pull out those students indicating that they spend “0” hours (no involvement) in these cocurricular activities, the following table summarizes what we get:
|
Class Status |
Truman |
COPLAC |
Private Liberal Arts Institutions |
All Institutions Participating in NSSE |
|
First Year |
14% |
35% |
18% |
40% |
|
Seniors |
14% |
47% |
21% |
47% |