Enrollment Hits Record For Spring Semesters
A record high spring semester enrollment of more than 13,800 students is expected. James K. Hitt, registrar and director of the office of admissions and records, said yesterday.
As classes began Monday, there were 12,470 on the Lawrence campus and 1,113 at the KU Medical Center in Kansas City.
Enrollment is up 11 percent from last spring, and down 756 students—or 5.7 percent—from the fall semester. Hitt describes this as normal shrinkage. The figure has varied between 5 and
7 percent for several years, he said.
THE INCREASE OF 1,224 students on the Lawrence campus over last spring is a gain of 11.6 percent. Medical Center enrollment increased by 96.
The number of new students is down, with only 405 compared with 435 last spring.
Women are slowly losing one of their prime advantages over men at KU—their smaller numbers.
Two years ago this spring, there were 1.84 men for every woman. Last year the ratio decreased to 1.75 to 1.
Now the ratio is down to 1.65
HITT EXPECTS from 250 to 300 late enrollments to push the total to 13,800.
It reached the "interim goal" for unemployment set by the President's Council of Economic Advisers four years ago.
Joblessness Dips To 9-Year Low
to 1, James K. Hitt, registrar,
said yesterday in revealing a
record spring enrollment of
13.583.
The Labor Department said today the seasonally adjusted rate of joblessness edged down by one-tenth of 1 per cent from December to the lowest level since April, 1957.
Wirtz said in testimony prepared for the Joint Economic Committee that the nation's objective should be to lower the jobless rate to between 2 and 3 per cent.
WASHINGTON —(UPI) -The nation's key unemployment rate fell in January to a nine-year low of 4 per cent of the labor force. Labor Secretary W.Willard Wirtz forecast it would drop below 3.5 per cent by the end of 1966.
A Labor Department spokesman said the jobless rate actually figured out to 3.952 but was rounded off to 4 per cent in line with normal statistical procedures.
The secretary said a 2 or 3 per cent rate could be achieved since it would allow for workers finding or changing jobs and about 0.5 per cent of unemployables. He also advocated expansion of manpower training programs to remedy any shortage of skilled workmen this year.
The January figure indicates that 40 workers out of every 1,000 were seeking jobs last month
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and could not find them. Teenage jobless rates still were triple the national rate even though they dropped by nearly 1 per cent to 12 per cent in January. The rate of unemployment maong non-whites, at 7 per cent, remained twice as high as the corresponding figure for white workers.
Recruiters for Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA) are on campus until Friday looking for students to work on Indian reservations, their leader said Monday.
Harold C. Goldstein, assistant commissioner of labor statistics, forecast a continued "upward thrust" in employment because of the buildup in the armed forces, higher defense spending and the boom in civilian goods.
Average hourly earnings of factory workers inched up by one cent to $2.67, a new peak. But weekly earnings of the typical factory hand fell by $1.20 to $109.74 because of shorter working hours last month.
The average factory work week,
at 41.1 hours, and average overtime.
3.6 hours a week, both were
at their highest levels for this
time since World War II.
"We're looking for volunteers of all backgrounds and abilities," reported Mary Grace Concannon, leader of the VISTA team. She said over 1700 VISTA Volunteers are currently in training or on assignment to poverty areas throughout the United States.
"Students now serving as volunteers are involved in a list of activities as long as the problems which poverty creates," she said.
VISTA volunteers serve one year, receiving living expenses and medical care. In addition to an allowance for food, housing, travel and clothing, they receive $600 at the end of their service. VISTA volunteers go where their help is requested.
Upon acceptance, candidates enter a six-week training program to prepare them for their assignments. No entrance examinations or interviews are necessary to join VISTA, Miss Concannon said. Persons over 18 are eligible; there are no experience requience requirements. Those who wish to join submit two applications which may be obtained from the VISTA information center in the Kansas Union.
10 Daily Kansan Tuesday, February 8, 1966
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