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REPORT ON ENROLLMENTS AND COSTS

SUMMER SESSION 1939

In the following tables the student and credit hour enrollment in
each course offered during the summer session is shown. Costs are figured
on the basis of the actual number of hours of work for which a record is
made in the Registrar's Office. By agreement of the National association
of Summer School Directors withdrawals from courses are not included in
total costs because the registrars generally make no permanent record of
summer or short term withdrawals. This practice is followed only to
secure a uniform basis for computing costs reported to the association.

Following the plan started two years ago the number of hours of
incompleted work, failures and withdrawals is not listed in detail for
each course. The figure® are available for these items and can be
furnished if desired. A summary of the totals for each department is
shown in tabular form on page 24 of this report. The number of hours
of withdrawal shown there for any department may be added to the total
of hours in the last column of the corresponding departmental summary
to show the full number of hours of registration in the department.
There is a considerable amount of incomplete work but this consists
mainly of unfinished problems, research or theses. The amount of failure
in summer session classes is now relatively small.

To further simplify the report, the division of enrollment into
junior college, senior college, and graduate hours is omitted. This
division seems to have been of little value to the committee and takes
considerable extra work and space. The figures are tabulated and can be
furnished if desired. A summary by departments is shown on page 25. This
table also shows the summary of credit hours gained and credit hour costs
in each department. This information may be of value in the consideration
of next year's program.

The costs shown include the salaries of instructors and laboratory
assistants but do not include overhead or maintenance items. There is
so much diversity of practice in handling overhead charges that our
National Association of Summer School Directors has not found it possible
to include them in reporting costs for comparison. mfhroughout the
association the cost figure for each department is obtained by dividing
the total number of hours of credit into the total sum paid for
instructional salaries and laboratory assistance in that department.