A study was conducted by Los Angeles City College to determine whether the early registration of spring 1972 was primarily responsible for the inflated enrollment figures for fall 1972 classes. A tabulation by course and department was provided by the college Data Center of the number of enrollments at the close of registration, at the close of…

This report presents enrollment projections for Schenectady County Community College from the fall of 1980 through 1991. It includes projections for both full-time and part-time (headcount and full-time equivalent) students and credit hours. Among the numerous variables considered in the calculations are enrollment rates of first-time full-time…

Utilizing certain guidelines and assumptions, this report presents actual, estimated, and projected enrollment for Oregon's 38 institutions of higher education between 1959 and 1978. The report is composed mostly of statistical tables presenting data on the 12 community colleges, 9 public 4-year institutions, and 17 private and independent…

This report examines existing mathematical methods that have been utilized to develop educational enrollment estimates and analyzes the applicability of these methods in the community college setting. Models surveyed are based on (1) extrapolation--by either survival cohort or cohort-regression, (2) structural flow, and (3) Markov-type procedures.…

This study was primarily an investigation of the status of health services in public community colleges in the United States. (Author/RK)

Funding for proposed community college facilities in California is based on a method which applies recognized space and utilization standards to expected future instructional activity as expressed by weekly student contact hours (WSCH), the product of student enrollment estimates, and expected future instructional loads. Until 1974, official…

The rate of increase of Illinois junior college enrollment has decreased for the past several years. One reason for this may lie in the fact that the consumption of a service has its greatest rate of increase in the early stages of the supply of the service. As the unmet demand for it becomes satisfied, additional consumption decreases, approaches…

The historical enrollment data for spring 1973 to spring 1976 at Macomb County Community College were used to project enrollment for summer 1976 to spring 1979. The most consistent enrollment projections were obtained using the following ratios: (1) spring ratios--spring values against preceding fall values; (2) fall ratios--fall values against…

This report summarizes the most recent (December 1998) long-range statewide forecast of fall enrollment and average annual weekly student contact hours (WSCH) in California Community Colleges. The annual fall survey of college registrars shows that fall 1998 enrollment is up 1.8 percent over fall 1997. The office forecasting model projects an…

In an effort to determine how the system-wide total student full-time equivalent (FTE) enrollment, as authorized by the legislature, is allocated among the several community colleges, this audit was conducted in 1988. The audit also sought to evaluate how effectively the community college system utilized the system-wide student FTE limit to…

The appropriation, payments, and amounts lapsed during fiscal year (FY) 1978 of state aid payments for the public community colleges in Illinois are outlined in tabular form. A total of $111,771,600 was appropriated from the State General Revenue Funds for the colleges in FY 1978. Of that amount, only $108,749,229.98 actually was paid out. The…

This study of Wyoming citizen access to community college education explores several factors related to college enrollments over the period of 1990-1997, and examines projected student enrollments, 1998-2006. Included topics are: (1) age characteristics of the Wyoming population (1990-1997); (2) age characteristics of credit headcount enrollments…

This report provides a summary of enrollment projections for the University of Hawaii (UH) system, which includes three university and seven community college campuses. The projections are statistical extrapolations of current trends in enrollment by campus, based on unduplicated headcounts of full-time and part-time students enrolled in regular…

These two reports from the Maricopa County Community College District (MCCCD) present population projections for the MCCCD service area and enrollment projections for the district and its seven individual colleges. The first report reviews enrollment increases over the past decade and presents fall 1980 figures as a background for examining county…

A study was conducted by the Virginia Community College System (VCCS) to determine VCCS first-time enrollment projections for recent high school graduates in the face of estimated decreases in the number of high school graduates from 1980 through 1985. The projections were determined by an analysis of Virginia Department of Education graduation…