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Show rropriation which WonU able an early start 0uld en-em en-em campus. the Or, growth of the school. Utah Tech and Utah Valley officials and citizens are cur-iently cur-iently engaged in a drive to convince the Utah State Legislative Legis-lative of the need for an ap- and driver education. This, he noted, is an 8.5 per cent increase in-crease over the 2842 total last year in the same categories. But the day school college) level increases of 17 per cent this year (100 per cent in five years) is the significant onej President Sorensen emphasized. This is the one that strains current facilities to the utmost and leaves a waiting list in many of the vocatio.nal-techni- cal categories, he said. The state purchased the Or- em site six years ago when it became evident that the 13 acres of the Provo camp'js, boxed in by BYU and other factors with no chance of expansion, ex-pansion, would prove vastly inadequate in-adequate for the expected UTAH TECH ENROLLMENT DOUBLED IN FIVE YEARS Utah Technical College at Provo has doubled its day school enrollment o.n a college level in five years. Its college level day school total is up 17 per cent this year over last. Its total day school student enrollment (college level and a small percentage of high school transfers doing vocational vocation-al work a few hours a day while attending their regular high school) has increased 90 per cent io five years and 16.3 per" cent over last year. Its total overall enrollment (day and evening schools) passed the 3000 mark this year and shows an 8.5 per cent increase in-crease over a comparable figure fig-ure last year. These were figures released today by Wilson W. Sorensen, Utah Tech president, who advanced ad-vanced them as further e'H dence of the need for more loom at the school a need which can only be adequately met, he said, by development of the new Orem campus which offers 185 acres as compared to the present 13 in Provo. President Sorensen noted that the college this year is serving a total of 3086 students on its Provo campus and rented facilities, faci-lities, including day school college col-lege level, day school high school transfers, evening school) |