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Show Weber Enrollment Rises 11.04 Percent MR. MECHAM said increased in-creased holding power might be one explanation. Another could be the economic situation situa-tion which makes jobs harder to get, thus getting more students stu-dents in school. The increases are spread quite evently among the classes, clas-ses, freshman to senior, and also among the eight different schools, on campus, Mr. Mecham said. IN TERMS of full time equivalent enrollment the increase in-crease for the current year's winter quarter is 768. The full time equivalent count for winter win-ter quarter of the 1979-80 school year was 7,111. compared com-pared with 7.879. Full time equivalency totals are obtained by dividing the total number of registrations for all classes by 15. considered consi-dered a standard full load. Head count is the total number of students, regardless of whether they take one class or a heavy registration. Largest winter quarter enrollment en-rollment in the school's history is currently attending Weber State Collee, Milton C. Mecham. dean of admissions and records, said. BY ACTUAL head count, there are 9,993 students taking day and evening classes, an increase in-crease of 1 1 .04 percent over a year ago, when the comparable compara-ble enrollment was 8.999. Enrollment in off-campus centers such as the one at Hill Air Force Base would put the count of those taking classes from WSC well above that figure fi-gure to around 12,000. Mr. Mecham said. In addition, hundreds of students enroll for short-term workshops such as those offered by the Division of Continuing Education. MR. MECHAM said one of the more interesting aspects of the big increase is a comparison compari-son with fall quarter. Fall quarter quar-ter figures generally are hundreds hun-dreds of students higher than those of any other quarter. Last school year H979-80) ttW quarter enrollment was 9,674, dropping to 8,991 for the winter, win-ter, a decline of 675. This year fall quarter enrollment enroll-ment was 10.065 for the 1980 fall quarter, and 9.993 for the winter, a decline of only 73 students. |
