OCR Text |
Show University of Utah Observes Increase in College Credit Hours quarter registration. ! Production of student credit ! hours las year reached 386,094.4, 1 a gain of nearly 12,000 over the previous year. In 1953-54 the total was 292,784.5. Mr. Norton's report showed a steady decline since 1953-54 in the instructional costs of producing produc-ing each credit hour. In 1953-54 the U costs in instruction were $9.84 per credit hour. In 1954-55 they were $9.60; in 1955-56, $9.49, and in 1956-57 they were cut to $9.33. In a period marked by rising salaries and general inflation, steady reduction in instructional costs was an important achievement achieve-ment in efficiency. ! The general expenses of the University on a credit-hour basis ba-sis showed only a very small rise in the same period. The overall costs in 1953-54 were $24.91 per credit hour. Although they rose I to $25.14 the next year and to $26.53 in 1955-56, they were trimmed by 1956-57 to $25.05 per credit hour. The University of Utah produced pro-duced nearly 100,000 more credit hours in the 1957-58 school year and produced them more efficiently effi-ciently than it produced five years ago. In every phase of its program the U last year enrolled nearly 10,000 more individuals than it enrolled five years ago. These gains were reported in the 1957-58 Report of the Registrar, Reg-istrar, released this week by Dr. A. Ray Olpin, the University president. In his annual statistical summary, sum-mary, registrar J. A. Norton showed the entire 1957-58 program pro-gram at the U enrolled 24,935 individuals. in-dividuals. The entire 1957-58 program including the training schools and extension courses enrolled 24,935 individuals. The same total in 1958-54 was 14.991. In 1956-57 it was 20,727. The coliege-age enrollment in the entire program was 22,809 again more than 4,000 higher than the same figure for the previous pre-vious year. Of the 9,401 students enrolled in day residence work last year 7,883 were Utahns. Every county coun-ty was represented in the stu-i stu-i dent body. Idaho, with 314 students, was the biggest out of state source of enrollment, followed by Cali-i Cali-i fornia with 307, Nevada with 79, Wyoming with 70, Colorado with , 55 and New York with 50. ! Residence enrollment in regu- lar day classwork last year was 9.401, highest since the last year of the post-World War II GI flood. In 1949-50 the day residence resi-dence enrollment was 9,703. In ! 1956-57 it was 9,113. The total residence enrollment : last year was 15,252. It included ; 3,574 students in the evening courses and 2,278 in summer |