Ron,<br> <br> Almost all schools lose enrollment between Fall and Spring. What is so unusual and telling about the UI enrollment drop is that we get plenty of new students every year but still lose enrollment. It is the current students that are not returning. What that means is that we are attracting people to UI, but once they get here and try it out, they do not return. Usually when a student population drops it is because of lack of new enrollment. UI is excellent at attracting people, it is getting them to stay where we are having a problem.<br> <br> You also have to realize that UI is also a graduate school, and enrollment in graduate school usually goes up because of foreign student enrollment. <br> <br> You also fail to take into consideration that Latah County, is also losing population, not just the UI. <br> <br> Take Care,<br> <br> Donovan J Arnold<br><br><b><i>Ron Force <rforce@moscow.com></i></b> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq"
style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;">All the state's HE schools, except BSU and CSI, have lost enrollment as compared to last spring. NIC blames it on the improving job market as students leave school for full-time employment. Vocational enrollment showed the greatest losses, which would tend to corroborate that outlook.<br><br>All the schools (except BSU) showed losses in academic full-time student enrollment.<br><br>http://www.boardofed.idaho.gov/statistics/students/index.asp<br> <br>**********************************************<br>Ron Force Moscow ID USA<br>rforce@moscow.com<br>**********************************************<br><br>--<br><br>It is absurd to suggest that job availability has anything to do with UI’s decreased enrollment. I won’t speculate why UI’s enrollment is down other than to say that well-publicized internal problems at UI as well as the increased quality and popularity of other
universities in the state has more to do with it than a lack of part-time jobs in Moscow. There are likely other relevant factors of which I am unaware. (I still think that UI is the best state university in Idaho, by the way!)<br><br><br><br><br>_____________________________________________________<br> List services made available by First Step Internet, <br> serving the communities of the Palouse since 1994. <br> http://www.fsr.net <br> mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com<br>¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯<br></blockquote><br><p>
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