Friday, November 29, 1959 University Daily Kansan
Page 9
PEOPLE - NOT NUMBERS
Did You Know That—
9,435 students are enrolled in the University of Kansas this year.
This is 20% of all college students in Kansas.
Births in the state of Kansas and high school and college enrollments have zoomed upwards in the post World War II years. Higher education has many needs to be taken care of in order to be ready for these greatly increased numbers of children.
- K.U. enrolls 23% of all college juniors, 25% of all college seniors and 43% of all graduate and professional students in Kansas.
- For every $1 spent to educate a freshman or sophomore, $2 must be spent on a junior or senior, and $4 on a graduate student.
- The reasons are indicated in the graph at left: a rapidly rising birthrate, a steadily increasing percentage of high school attendance, and a zooming percentage of college attendance.
- Almost 50% of college-age Kansans are enrolled in college, ranking the state 6th in the nation.
By 1964 K.U.expects to have 3,000 more students, by 1970 almost 17,000 will be enrolled, by 1975 more than 20,000this is a reliable estimate, not a casual estimate.
In the University of Kansas ALUMNI MAGAZINE for October, 1959, 12,000 members of the K.U. Alumni Association read an article entitled "People—Not Numbers," which presented for the first time a complete, authentic prediction from K.U. on future enrollments. For a reprint of this article with more facts about the explosive enrollment situation, address your request to: ALUMNI ASSOCIATION, The University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas.
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