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Friday, October 12, 1973
University Daily Kansan
Enrollment Projections Indicate Decreases
By NANCY NOLDER
Kaman Staff Reporter
Following a national trend, enrollment increases at the University of Kansas have been reported.
Figures compiled by William Kelly, registrar, indicate continued enrollment increases each fall since 1968, but the percentage of increase has doubled shar-
Official enrollment figures for the fall of 1969 showed a gain of 1,211 students over the fall of 1968. This is in contrast to a gain of just 69 students in the fall of 1972 over the fall of 1969. To account for this total enrolment of 20,238, or 127 students over last fall's enrolment of 20,112.
Both Kelly and Chancellor Emeritus Raymond Nichols have voiced theories about the national leveling trend in higher education enrollments.
Kelly hypothesized that couples started limiting the number of children long before a goal of zero population growth was made popular.
He also said he thought the feeling among some young people today was that a college class is over.
The draft may have also been a factor in the leveling, Kelly said. Many students attending college to avoid the draft felt no need to continue when it ended, he said.
BOTH DECREASES AND increases in enrolments have been noted within the various colleges at KU, Nichols said. Although current figures weren't yet available. Nichols noted that since 1968 substantial enrollment gains were realized
in the schools of architecture, business,
journalism, law, pharmacy and social
sciences.
Enrollments dropped in the School of Engineering and the College of Liberal Arts.
Nichols said he thought the reasons for the increases might be that more students wanted to enter professions upon graduation.
Enrollment figures play an important part in determining the KU budget each year. Nichols said. Enrollment totals are based on attendance and count and on a full-time equivalent basis.
The head count is the total number of students attending KU; the full-time equivalent count (EFT) is based on the total number of undergraduate hours divided by 15, the number of hours considered an exam load. Graduate hours are divided by nine.
STATE LEGISLATIVE SUPPORT is based on the EFT, Nichols said. Thus, if three undergraduate students are enrolled part-time for five credit hours each, they will count as three in the head-count but as one in the EFT.
Each year, the Kansas Legislature allows the hiring of one additional faculty member plus $190 for office and teaching needs for each additional 15 full-time students enrolled. Allocations are based on enrollment.
The estimates are compiled yearly for schools in the Kansas Board of Regents system and are used by the State Education Commission. Compilation is done by
Kenneth Anderson and George Smith, professors of education. Estimates are based on current and projected numbers of students in each state and on past experience. Nicholas said.
ANYTIME ENROLLMENT doesn't meet estimates, the University must return an equivalent amount of allocated money to the student body we are always based on fall enrollment figures.
Estimates were so far off last fall that KU had to return 23.5 faculty positions, Nichols University
Enrollment is expected to continue dropping for several years to come, Nichols said. A study by the Carnegie Commission released Oct. 1 estimates there are 637,000 fewer students in higher education this year than predicted.
State-wide estimates by Anderson and Smith also predict a steady reduction in enrolment, based on the premise that he would be more likely to enroll seniors than today, or almost a third less than present figures, Nichols said. He said that the trend is closely than ever and revised each year.
TUITION TRENDS MAY also affect future enrollments, Nichols said. He said philosophies of tuition were changing. In past years, the philosophy prevailed that students get from students seeking higher education, so society should bear most of the costs.
The philosophy is emerging that the student is the one who benefits from higher education. Consequently, he should pay more of the costs.
said that unless student financial aid programs were greatly expanded tuition increases of the sort suggested could be more likely to figure even more than already expected.
The middle-income family would be the victim if these proposals were effected, Nichols said. Tuition is presently determined by the Board of Regents under the control of the legislature and by comparison with comparable states, Nichols said.
Nichols said that not too long ago students paid only 20 per cent of the cost he.
Currently, students in state-supported universities in Kansas are paying approximately 30 per cent of the total cost of their education.
Two systems of increasing tuition have been proposed, Nichols said. One system, proposed by the Committee for Economic Development, a private business and industrial organization, recommends the student pay 50 per cent more of his education costs, instituted over a five-year period.
Nichols said the newer philosophy was widespread, especially in business circles.
THE CARNEgie COMMISSION recommends that tuition in state-supported schools be increased 10 per cent each year and that students receive tuition in private colleges, Nichols said.
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