Fordham Seeks Answers As Enrollment Drops SABC: More
c Volume 8, Number 3 College At Lincoln Center, Fordham University, New York September 24-October 7, 1988 Fordham Seeks Answers As Enrollment Drops By Mary Kay Linge next spring. "After Many Years Of Neglect": The Reasons Enrollments at the College at Lincoln Center are down over 10% again this year, according to pre- "There've been a thousand and one suggestions liminary figures obtained by Assistant Dean Ully as to why enrollment has dropped," Hirsch said. Hirsch. Registrar Steven Bordas confirmed that "I think it's a lot of factors-economics, lack of Hirsch's estimate of 2125 enrolled students this fell, advertising, tuition..." The task force report does a loss of 155 students from Fall 1985, is "in the state that, "after many years of neglect, [CLC] is ballpark," though he said that the final figures will in a crisis situation." not be ready for several weeks. The estimate in- The problem may have been caused by several cludes full-time, part-time, and College At Sixty elements, but there is no agreement within the students. University as to which ones have been most harm- "This year is really drastic," Hirsch said, citing ful. While admissions and advertising personnel the 13 % drop in high-school entry freshmen as a emphasize uncontrollable market changes as the special concern. Enrollments, largely among adult major fector in CLCs decline, task force members students, have been dropping steadily since 1978, tend to blame an insensitive administration policy but the traditional student population has remained based at the Rose Hill campus. fairly stable.
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