A study surveyed communication apprehension (CA) among the college student population. Persons in higher education are concerned about determining whether or not sufficient assistance is available to students for whom communication apprehension appears to be problematic. Subjects, 2,377 students in speech classes on 11 campuses of The Pennsylvania State University, were administered the Personal Report of Communication Apprehension-24, a 24-item Likert-type scale which measures trait-like apprehension in four contexts: groups, formal meetings, two-party conversation, and public speaking. Results indicated that apprehensive students were more likely to: (1) attend Commonwealth campuses rather than University Park; (2) be in their freshman or sophomore year; (3) choose Science, Health and Human Development, or Education majors rather than Liberal Arts and Communications majors; and (4) to have not taken high school speech. (Twenty-nine notes are included.) (RAE)