Ann Goodman

The meeting focused on enrollment data and projections. Discussions covered national high school graduation rate projections, noting an expected decline referred to as "the cliff" after 2025, but also an observed 10% increase in graduates of color compared to original projections. Specific enrollment trends for New Mexico were presented, indicating a drastic decline in high school graduates post-2025, necessitating increased out-of-state recruitment efforts, particularly targeting Texas and Arizona. The presentation detailed New Mexico State University's enrollment data from 2007 through Fall 2022, highlighting the peak enrollment in 2010, a subsequent decline stabilized in 2019, and a 2.6% overall enrollment increase for the current fall, driven by a 3.2% increase in undergraduate enrollment. Further analysis broke down enrollment by graduate/undergraduate status, freshman/transfer numbers, application and admit rates, orientation reservations, melt rates (which decreased to 5.7% due to vendor support for admitted student calls), and academic profile metrics like average ACT scores. Finally, data on gender breakdown (60% female, 40% male for first-time freshmen) and retention/graduation rates were reviewed.

This document is the 2019 update to the National Artificial Intelligence Research and Development Strategic Plan, defining priority areas for Federal investments in AI R&D. It outlines eight strategic priorities: making long-term investments in AI research, developing effective methods for human-AI collaboration, understanding and addressing ethical/legal/societal implications of AI, ensuring the safety and security of AI systems, developing shared public datasets and environments for AI training and testing, measuring and evaluating AI technologies through standards and benchmarks, better understanding national AI R&D workforce needs, and expanding public-private partnerships to accelerate advances in AI. The plan aims to maintain U.S. leadership in AI, foster economic growth, enhance national security, and improve quality of life.