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Show EDUCATION College Enrollment Drop Is Expected Mobilization is having a drastic effect on colleges throughout the nation. A recent survey of American Ameri-can universities and colleges revealed re-vealed that ,most institutions predict pre-dict they will lose 25 to 50 per cent of their students before the end of this year. Such a drop in enrollment will result re-sult in a sharp cut-back of faculty members, possibly as many as 20,000 to 25,000, who will be dismissed dis-missed from their jobs or will not be replaced when they leave for military duty or war jobs, the survey sur-vey revealed. The drop in student enrollment is causing college officials serious concern. con-cern. They report a decline of 5 to 10 per cent in enrollment for the spring semester which began in January. |