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by Frank Mullen
The experts predicted a substan~ ti al enrollment decline for state higher education institutions but preliminary enrollment figures available at Auraria showed enrollments remaining stable and one institution reported an in· crease. Unofficial estimates show the University of Colorado at Denver about even with last year's figures. Enrollments at the Community College of Denver at Auraria have increased. And officials at Metropolitan State College said "it is just too early to tell" since there are "a whole lot of ifs" involved. Officials of the three institutions were polled August 31,. the last day of pre-registration.for the fall semester. George Burnam, director of admissions and records· at UCD, said the university has not "suf- · f ered any disasters or enjoyed any marvelous increases.'' "We really don't know that much right now," he said. "But last year at this time we had 4671 full time equi,valent (FTE) students enrolled with a total head count of 8516 students. We are in that same -baY park righJ now.~' , • •
George Gallegos, registrar of CCD-A, said the college had around 1000 students enrolled on the second .day of registration last year as compared with 1200 this fall-giving CCD-A an overal increase of 17 percent. "We are real optimistic about enrollment for this term" he said. "We've done a lot of marketing this year and we feel our direct mail and advertising has helped quite a bit. We now accept Master Charge _a nd _Yisa and we think
that's helped." MSC. conducted an advertising campaign ~nd will now accept charge cards as well, but Dean of Admissions Ken Curtis said the college has ''no meaningful enrollment figures available'' as yeL
"We were open 10 days (for registration) last year as compared to 7 days this year so the figures we have are ·not really comparable," he said. "We were really_ swamped today, and that
didn't happen last year. We will still be registering during the first week of classes.'' Curtis said the college now requires students to pay in full at registration, but it is "impossible to pin down" the effect the new policy may have on enrollments. ''Applications have increased over last year," he said. "But we will just have to wait and see if that means anything."
THE PRICES AT the Book Center seem
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to be rising as fast as the price of oil. Are ~here any windfall profits?
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STATE SENATOR HUGH Fowler examines Auraria problems and suggests solutions.
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RUSS MEYER, the Prince of Pom,talks about movies, sex and Kitten Natividad.
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