Charting UL Enrollment since 1901

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Southeastern Louisiana University’s enrollment dipped more than 2 percent while the University of Louisiana at Lafayette saw a slight increase of 33 students from 2006. The University of Louisiana System, which includes Southeastern Louisiana, ULL and six other schools, remained relatively flat, declining in enrollment by just more than 1 percent overall. With the largest enrollment in the state, the state college system fell from 80,840 students to 79,924 this fall, according to statistics released Wednesday. ULL is the system’s largest school with 16,355; Southeastern Louisiana is next with 14,757 students this fall. SLU had 15,118 students last year. The rest of the story By JORDAN BLUM Advocate Capitol News Bureau

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  UL's enrollment remained steady two years after the university implemented selective admissions, but students continued to flock to community college in growing numbers.

Preliminary enrollment counts show an increase of 33 students at UL compared to last fall, while South Louisiana Community College had a fall enrollment boost of 579 students, or nearly 25 percent, setting another record fall enrollment for the college.

As expected, the new admissions policies continue to boost community college enrollment as students academically unprepared for four-year colleges are encouraged to take prep courses at community colleges.

At SLCC, the demand for courses at the college meant that capacity in courses was increased where possible and more instructors were needed, but it also meant that some students couldn't enroll.
"Because of space, the need for labs and specialized classrooms and faculty shortages in some areas, we had to turn some students away," said Jan Brobst, SLCC chancellor.

In particular, the college had a hard time responding to the demand for math courses, Brobst said.

Brobst said the college encouraged students to consider evening, weekend or online courses.

"I think clearly space is a concern. We are good stewards of the public dollar and we are looking at our space utilization and really trying to do what we can," Brobst said.

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Marsha Sills
msills@theadvertiser.com

[gorcajun]

Is this the NEW pentathlam?

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Efforts to increase enrollment in the UL Graduate School have resulted in numbers for spring 2008 indicating the Graduate School has grown by nearly 11 percent from last spring. As of this week, 1,433 students were enrolled in the Graduate School. That's an increase of 133 students from this time last year. "This increase is a direct result of the hard work and dedication of the Graduate School staff and also each graduate department at the university," said Dr. C. Eddie Palmer, dean of the Graduate School. "We implemented a 'recruiters all' mission. Everyone is helping to grow the Graduate School." Additionally, UNIVERSITY of LOUISIANA President Ray Authement approved an increase in the number of assistantships offered and also increased stipends. The rest of the story

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  LAFAYETTE — While first-time freshmen enrollment at University of Louisiana at Lafayette is down by 3.8 percent this fall, about 25 percent more recent high-school graduates enrolled at South Louisiana Community College.

The dip in UL’s first-time freshmen numbers is a sign of the university’s growing selectivity, said Steve Landry, ULL provost and vice president of academic affairs.

UL and other public, four-year universities in the state, fully implemented a selective admissions process in 2005, but universities have the discretion to admit a certain percentage of students who don’t meet the admission criteria.

The selective admissions policy was designed to funnel academically unprepared high-school graduates to community colleges for additional academic preparation.

It seems to be working.

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By MARSHA SILLS
Advocate Acadiana bureau

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[Boomer]

Lies, damn lies and stats---can somebody list the '08 UL system enrollments????-I see all the % increases and a lot of it is on-line students---what gives????

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  Enrollment numbers for UL's fall 2008 semester are showing signs of forward progress for the university.

Preliminary enrollment for the fall 2008 semester is 16,320 - a number just slightly lower than last year's enrollment of 16,345.

And while officials say the stable numbers for overall enrollment are a positive sign, more encouraging numbers show up in the sizes of the sophomore and junior classes.

This year's sophomore class of 3,012 and junior class of 2,682 are both larger than last year's class sizes.

This year, the sophomore class grew by 53 students and the junior class grew by 66.

These numbers are encouraging when measured against a stable freshman class size of just over 2,700.

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Cody Daigle • cdaigle@theadvertiser.com • September 23, 2008

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Great guns through 1985...

What happened since then?

Did the same thing happen at the other in state schools?

[Zeebart21]

_ Great guns through 1985...

What happened since then?

Did the same thing happen at the other in state schools? _

Selective admissions. That would be my guess.

Z

[Boomer]

I don't think the select admissions were in place yet --- -Less warm bodies out of high school-could be wrong--- when I was working with Jostens it seems we were worried about falling student numbers for a time--- what about on-line classes ???? Tech and ULM said their classes have picked up due to on-line!!!!!