5% decline since 1975
Enrollment drops again
By ERIC BENJAMINSON
Of the Emerald
Fall term enrollment at the Uni
versity dropped 1.4 percent from
last year’s figures, but adminis
trators will have to wait to know
what financial impact the decline
will have.
Registrar totals released at the
end of the term’s first four weeks
showed 16,463 students at the
University.
State aid to the University is de
termined by dividing the total
number of credit hours for all un
dergraduate students by 15, the
full-time equivalency “magic
number” that is considered the
average number of credit hours a
student takes each term.
The FTE figures are still being
compiled, however, and the fig
ures from the end of the first
month may undergo fluctuations
that could change the University’s
financial allotment.
The drop in enrollment was not
unexpected and in fact, came
close to the decline predicted by
Gary Lane, an analyst for the
State System of Higher Educa
tion.
"Enrollment at the University
has dropped 5 percent since
1975, from almost 17,400 to
16,700 some-odd now,” Lutz
says.
Lutz speculates that the con
tinuing losses of the last few years
are the result of more freshman -
dropping out and other students
transferring after their sophomore
year.
“There was, for various
reasons, a large enrollment drop
in 1975, and what we are seeing
now is partially the result of those
low years," he says.
Johnson of the University adds
that “high schools have been
graduating fewer and fewer peo
ple each year, and this has some
effect on university registrations."
Johnson says, however, that
the number of women enrolled at
the University showed an in
crease of 156, following a trend
begun several years ago.
“I have a feeling that affirmative
action programs are beginning to
have some effect," Johnson says,
“there is also a great attraction to
the community education pro
gram."
Graduate student enrollment
increased this year by 149 stu
dents, many of whom have also
been absorbed into the commun
ity education program. CEP has
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increased this year from 617 to
748 students.
Figures indicate that the drop in
enrollment comes from the ranks
of the undergraduates, yet
reasons are hard to find for the
slip.
Additional data show 12,526
Oregon residents are currently
registered, while 3,937 non
resident students are recorded.
Two other state system schools
show noticeable changes in their
fourth week enrollment levels.
Oregon College of Education in
Monmouth reports a 7.7 percent
drop in enrollment from last year’s
figures. Bob Vieira, OCE assistant
director of admissions, says the
drop was not unexpected, but is
not sure of the reasons for the slip.
“Along with the general de
crease in high school graduates,
we had a projected loss of
graduate and transfer students,”
Vieira explains.
“Monmouth is known as a
somewhat specialized teacher’s
school, and I suppose that the cur
rent tight teaching market can ex
plain some of our enrollment los
ses," he says. “I’m just not sure
that we will know exactly why we
have slipped ... at least not until
later in the year.”
Eastern Oregon State College
in LaGrande reported a surprising
12.9 percent enrollment jump for
the 1978-79 year. Lutz says the
increase might not be the whole
story.
“There is a possibility that La
Grande could be including their
community education and other
special program students in their
headcounts, which could cause
some inflation of enrollment fig
ures.” he guesses.
Oregon State University’s en
rollment is ahead once again of
the University’s percent increase
as was projected earlier.
Other state system schools
showed little or no fluctuations
from last year’s enrollment levels.
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