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Show Utah Tech College Sets All-Time Enrollment Utah Technical College at Provo set an all-time enrollment record to grow 13 percent in its enrollment this quarter over the corresponding correspon-ding fall quarter of 1975, nine per cent over the peak winter quarter of last year, and in less than a decade has more than quadrupled its student total. And with auxiliary and off-campus programs, it is this year serving well over 4,000 people. This was announced today by President Wilson W. Sorensen in an enrollment report which shows a day and evening school total for the college of 3,881 this year an all-time record for the institution. in-stitution. He noted it surpasses sur-passes by a fraction over 13 per cent the 3,434 for the corresponding fall quarter of last year, and is nine per cent above the 3,560 at which Utah Tech enrollment peaked in the winter quarter of 1976. And, the president pointed out, today's enrollment is well over four times the 1,023 for the year 1969-70. In that year it passed the 1,000 mark, he said, and has climbed clim-bed steadily each year to the present. The president said if the trend of past years continues, the enrollment should increase in-crease at least by some degree in the winter quarter approaching. Complete enrollment totals just available show 2,428 full-time full-time day students for this quarter, compared to 2,252 for the corresponding quarter last year. Evening school total this year is 1,453 as against 1,182 for the fal' quarter last year. In addition, President Sorensen said, the college is serving nearly 400 ir auxiliary and off-campus programs which, added to the regular 3,881 enrollment, brings to nearly 4,300 the total receiving instruction from the institution. These extra programs are, he said, some 150 in driver training, another 100 in a commercial power sewing program, 35 high school students of the Slpine District taking auto mechanics at the college, and about 100 in a fireman training program where instructors in-structors go to various communities com-munities in the state and train volunteer firemen. The record enrollment this year coincides with the first occupancy by the college of a portion of its new Orem campus. cam-pus. Some 300 students in auto mechanics are in new facilities this quarter, and another 700 are scheduled to move into the new Business Building during the winter quarter. President Sorensen pointed out that thus far, all this will do is take care of part of the overflow from the crowded Provo Campus. The auto body and diesel mechanics students until this quarter were housed in rented off-campus off-campus facilities, and the business program students are occupying temporary classroom trailers on the Provo campus north parking i lot. President Sorensen pointed 1 out the move from the old to i the new campus will be a ' gradual thing over several I years as new buildings are i finished and as financing I becomes available for others. The new campus sets on 185 - acres in the arm of 1-15 and ' Orem's 12th South east of 1-' 1-' 15 and north of 12th South. |