contacts and enrollments
FY 2003 CONTACTS AND ENROLLMENTS
Broadcasting and Media Innovations1  

1 Wisconsin Public Radio and Wisconsin Public Television are partnership services of UW-Extension and the Wisconsin Educational Communications Board.

2 Based on Nielsen data. Does not include Wisconsin Public Television viewer data from the entire La Crosse-Eau Claire market because a portion of that market has been reassigned to the Minneapolis-St. Paul designated marketing area by Nielsen Media Research.

3 Includes direct group and individual teaching contacts as reported by campus and county faculty/staff, plus 344,628 paraprofessional contacts. In addition, Cooperative Extension faculty/staff reach the public through publications, exhibits, mass media, satellite videoconferences, phone contacts, letters, Educational Teleconference Network, the World Wide Web and computer/phone networks. Cooperative Extension contacts are for calendar year 2002.

4 University of Wisconsin-Extension coordinates off-campus credit courses. Credit is offered by the UW degree-granting institutions.

5 Independent Learning enrollments are adjusted for student withdrawals during FY 2003.

Wisconsin Public Radio listeners per week
399,600
Wisconsin Public Television viewers per week2
571,000
Wisconsin Public Television telecourse enrollments
3,651
Interactive conferencing hours
154,676
 
Business and Manufacturing Extension (SBDC)  
Counseling and technical assistance clients
2,081
Business AnswerLine-assisted clients
2,438
Counseling and technical assistance hours
21,290
Training programs
535
Training program participants
11,208
Student contact hours
103,867
   
Cooperative Extension  
Teaching contacts  
Agriculture/Agribusiness
345,918
Community, Natural Resources and Economic Development
115,947
Family Living Programs
426,298
4-H and Youth Development
238,789
Wisconsin Geological and Natural History Survey
21,680
Total contacts3
1,148,632
   
Outreach and E-Learning Extension  
Online courses
198
Online certificate and degree programs
15
Noncredit programs
6,225
Undergraduate enrollments (campus-based credit activity)4
19,850
Graduate enrollments (campus-based credit activity)4
10,307
Independent Learning enrollments5
3,849
Online enrollments
3,857
Noncredit enrollments
182,074
UW HELP contacts
29,389
Learner Support Services contacts
73,463
Online applications to UW System campuses
85,287
   
Extension Conference Centers  
J.F. Friedrick Center, The Lowell Center, The Pyle Center  
Conference participants
90,435
Conference days
153,816
Events
2,310
Event days
3,927
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