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Mill" 11111111 14111 • .f .. -...- m ~,..,,... -.I 1 , I _ II I - - -- ....,•• -/-,<'' n II .., -,---. ----- ": -,_ , _-- • i -..- -- ' •. 7 ,n _ , __ ___._ A See your Jostens representative. Dater Mon - Tues, Oct. 15th - 16th Time: 9 a.m Place: Lion's Den Deposit: $lO Payment plans available. Two-year schools reach standstill WASHINGTON (CPS) - There will be about 75,000 fewer students enrolled at com munity and other two-year col leges this fall, and some observers fear it could be the start of an era of little or no growth for the schools. Enrollment may fall from one-to-two percent this fall, the American Association of Com munity and Junior Colleges (AACJC) predicted in a study released last week. It's the biggest drop in the two-year compus population in 20 years, the group adds. The AACJC survey of member colleges blames the bottoming out of the baby boom population and the end of the recession, which per suaded many people to return to school for retraining, for the slight decline. "The boom era is over," concludes AACJC GETA : 2SREBATE ON YOUR JOSTENS GOLD COLLEGE RING. [m...-} spokeswoman Rosemary Wohlers. "In the sixties, enroll ment was growing like crazy. Now it's leveling off." "The improving economy means fewer students attending community colleges," she says. "As jobs open up, students cut back to part-time attendence or leave school altogether." And while community col leges still attract their share of "nontraditional" students -- people over 24 -- the decreasing population of 18-to-24-year-old people from which to draw students is taking its toll. The schools themselves have been anticipating a decline for years, especially since 1978, when two-year compus enroll ment dropped slightly. "Enrollment grew for a cou ple of years after 1978," Wohler states, "until 1983, when it slipped .33 percent. The projected drop this year is the -7 p.m 1110111111. WSW Q.,' Qfrit.,,,a Thursday, October 4, 1984 The Capitol Times Page 11 largest in 20 years." Wohler attributes communi ty colleges' ability to keep enrollments relatively stable over the years to the rising costs of four-year colleges. Almost 40 percent of the students who enroll at two-year colleges come "right out of high school," not other schools, she says. There's no real geographic sense to the sagging enrollments this fall. Schools in California, Florida and New York are an ticipating declines this school year, while Arizona, Washington and Maryland col leges expect slight increases. Some other states project a greater drop than the AACJC predicts. Illinois community college attendance could slip as much as five percent, officials there say. "We definitely have to say enrollment is down," says Virginia McMillan of the Il linois Community College Board. "We estimated earlier this year it would be down five percent, but it looks as though it may be even lower. At some colleges, it may drop as much as 15 percent." California's huge two-year college system, which claims it enrolls 25 percent of America's community college students, is examining its enrollment figures very carefully because (Answer ACROSS 1 Lifted with 2 Retreat 3 Pronoun 4 Organ of hearing 5 Expires 6 Mountain lever 6 Brief 11 Sell to consumer 13 Container 14 Guido's lake 7 Bitter vetch 8 Railroad: low note 15 Schoolbooks 17 Symbol for abbr. 9 Mediter- tantalum 18 Noise 20 Enticing MIME vessels 10 African antelope 12 Den 13 Insect 16 Let tall IMBEIII 21 Lair 22 Periods of time 24 Decay 25 Sow 26 Short jacket 28 Jimmy 19 Innate 34 Metal 21 Signifies fastener 23 Painful spots 36 Main dish 25 Omens 37 Dinner 27 Scold course 29 Macaw 39 Units of 31 Plundered Portuguese 33 Narcotic currency Carter's hometown 30 Mountains of Europe 32 Thus 33 A state 35 Poker stake 37 Resorts 38 Paddle 40 Dispatch 42 Be ill 43 Pigpens 45 Stream: abbr. 46 Note of scale 47 Skinning 49 About 50 Be present 52 Scorches 54 Believer in personal god 55 Whimpers DOWN 1 Excessively priggish person '' 1983 United Feature Syndicate, Inc tire system is charging tuition for the first time in its history this fall. "It looks as if enrollment will be down," reports Allene Mur doch of the California Com munity College Board of Direc tors. "Some schools are ex periencing depressed enrollments, expecially in urban districts." The slippage is uneven, she adds. Schools in areas with grow ing populations, such as the San Francisco area, are enjoy ing enrollment increases. "This summer we were up 1200 FTEs (`full-time equivalent' students) over last summer," says Sherie Story of Washington's State Board for Community College Education. "We're not projecting a decline this fall, but an increase of one to-two percent." Applications from high school student are down, she admits, but "only about 12 per cent of our students come to us directly from high school." The AACJC stresses its estimate of a slight nationwide decline is only a projection from data gathered from a poll of community college administrators. 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