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Grand Valley State University ScholarWorks@GVSU 1981-1982, Volume 6 Grand Valley Forum, 1976- 11-16-1981 Grand Valley Forum, volume 006, number 12, November 16, 1981 Grand Valley State University Follow this and additional works at: http://scholarworks.gvsu.edu/forum6 Part of the Archival Science Commons, Education Commons, and the History Commons Recommended Citation Grand Valley State University, "Grand Valley Forum, volume 006, number 12, November 16, 1981" (1981). 1981-1982, Volume 6. 12. http://scholarworks.gvsu.edu/forum6/12 This News Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Grand Valley Forum, 1976- at ScholarWorks@GVSU. It has been accepted for inclusion in 1981-1982, Volume 6 by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks@GVSU. For more information, please contact [email protected]. ~ - . -- .. Enrollment Stands at 6,699, Down 4.1 % Kirkhof, Seidman Post Gains; Transfer, Part-Time Students Decline Grand Valley's fall semester enrollment A relatively low decline in the number Michigan's depressed economy has is 6,699, a drop of nearly 300 students - of returning students may reflect improved affected enrollment at colleges through 4.1 percent - from last year. Gains in retention strategies, according to Stock out the state, Stockman said. "For one both headcount and full-time equivalent man. "We have better course sequencing thing, most existing financial aid pro students (FTE) were posted by Kirkhof so that, for example, a student in Muske grams fund only full-time students, College and Seidman College, the latter gon can plan ahead to complete a degree putting the squeeze on part-time students. in both graduate and undergraduate program there. We've improved our And although the popular theory is that areru:, while enrollment in the College of academic advising. Our financial aids high unemployment leads to higher Arts and Sciences, William James College program is emphasizing a package ap college enrollments, the actual situation and Continuing Education dropped. The proach to aid commitments for students may be an initial surge in enrollment Developmental Skills Institute posted a not just in their first year but throughout followed by an eventual decline as gain in headcount but a slight decrease their years at Grand Valley. And our repu economic difficulties continue." in FTE. tation for academic quality is gaining." (Continued on page 2) The number of students from Mus kegon and Ottawa counties increased slightly but other geographic areas showed FALL SEMESTER ENROLLMENT decreases. New students declined by 7. 7 percent, 1980 1981 re-entry students by 5. 7 percent and Headcount by College or Unit returning students by 1.8 percent. Trans College of Arts and Sciences - undergraduate 3109 2791 fer students were down 13.8 percent, College of Arts and Sciences - graduate 521 461 significantly more than first-time-in-any Seidman College of Business & Admin. - undergraduate 910 936 college (FTIAC) students, whose numbers Seidman College of Business & Admin. - graduate 499 592 dropped only .6 percent. Part-time William James College 491 448 students also posted a greater decline Kirkhof College 288 347 (6.1 percent) than full-time students Continuing Education - undergraduate 798 730 (dpwn 2.4 percent). Continuing Education - graduate 32 10 Some of the figures, such as those for Developmental Skills Institute 336 384 part-time students, reflect budget deci sions made last year, according to Dean TOTAL 6984 6699 of Academic Services Cal Stockman. For example, the Emergency Medical Training Full-Time Equivalent (FTE) program, which was dropped in the College of Arts and Sciences - undergraduate 2902.9 2810.5 budget cuts, enrolled 98 percent part College of Arts and Sciences - graduate 173.1 159.4 time students. Seidman College of Business & Admin. - undergraduate 337.6 363.0 Limited budgets have also curtailed Seidman College of Business & Admin. - graduate 165.2 187.6 the institution's ability to offer more Honors Program 7.4 4.6 sections of courses in high demand, Kirkhof College 255.1 305.1 Stockman said. Developmental Skills Institute 190.5 185.2 Performing Arts Center 25.2 N/A William James College 396.7 379.4 International Studies Institute 6.5 N/A TOTAL 4460.2 4:!94.8 Grand Val~ forlB11 Headcount by Geographic Area Kent County 2475 2366 Muskegon County 658 678 The Grand Valley Forum is published Ottawa County 1471 1481 every Monday by the Public Relations Other counties 2242 2078 Office. All materials should be sent to Other states 93 50 Dotti Clune, editor, Public Relations Foreign countries 45 46 Office, 316 Manitou Hall, Grand Valley State Colleges, Allendale, Michigan Headcount by Classification 49401. Telephone: 616/895-6611, ext. New 2349 2167 222. Returning 4126 4052 Re-entry 509 480 Two-Day Festival Completes WJCAnniversary Celebration Student exhibits and performances, . "Working Through Hard Times" will in September, focused on William James panel discussions, and an alumni dinner be the ·subject of the alumni addre~ by and his philosophy. The guest lecturer will highlight the William James College Cook, a professor emerita at Cornell was Eugene Taylor, an archivist who has Festival, the third event of the college's University who was the 1975 WJC worked extensively on the unpublished tenth anniversary celebration. Professor Synoptic Lecturer and a 1980 recipient manuscripts of William James. Alice Cook, an expert on labor relations of an honorary degree from Grand In October, Leo Hurwitz, the 1979 and particularly on. working women, will Valley. WJC graduates Walter Baker, WJC Synoptic Lecturer, returned to · be the guest speaker at the alumni dinner. Mary Kramer, and Chuck Reider will Grand Valley with the first public U.S. The two-day festival, to be held respond to Cook's comments. showing of Dialogue with a Woman Thursday and Friday, November 19 and Friday events will include a panel Departed, a major film which won numer 20, will offer activities recognizing the discussion on "Looking Ahead: Where ous international film awards during its college's past achievements, current ac- Are We Going?," a showcase of poetry European tour last year. Hurwitz has . tivities and future plans. and dance by WJC students, and a manage worked as a filmmaker for the United The celebration will open Thursday ment workshop on "Non-Sexist Leader Nations, for CBS, NBC, and NET; and he with a slide show and discussion on ship." served as chairman of the Graduate "William James, Our Contemporary," The WJC Festival is the third event of Institute of Film and Television at NYU. followed by a showcase of readings by The Tenth Anniversary Synoptic Lecture Students from a WJC dance class will WJC students and an arts and media Series, "William James, Our Contem: also offer Dance Alliance concerts in con show featuring films, videotapes and porary Revisited," taking place during the junction with the festival. For a detailed animation. "After Ten Years: What Have fall 1981 semester. The first event, held schedule of festival events, see page 4. We Done?" will be the topic for an afternoon panel discussion. The alumni dinner will begin at 6 p.m. with a wine reception and music provided by a jazz ensemble including WJC faculty Moral Majority_Film to Be ·shown members Dick Gottlieb and Dick Paschke, A Moral Majority film on parochial administrators and the audience. and Arthur C. Hills, executive assistant to Chic Broersma, of the Cainpus- :Mlnls the president. education will be shown on Wednesday, November 18, in the fifth program in the try, said the success of four earlier fall fall forum on "The Interaction of Science, forum programs prompted the decision to Faculty Concert, Education and Religion." add a fifth event to the series. The The film "Let Their Eyes Be Opened" program should be of particular interest Bandorama will be shown at 12 noon and 3 p.m. in to educators, according to Broersma. Lake Superior Hall, Room 174. Follow The series is sponsored by the School · Coming-Up ing the noon showing, School of Educa of Education, faculty Brown Bag Discus Music by Grand Valley's Faculty tion Director Tyrus Wessell will moderate sion Group, Faculty Club, and Campus String Quartet, Marching Band, and Wind a discussion involving local public school Ministry Council. Ensemble will be featured in two per formances to be held in the Calder Fine Arts Center on November 17 and 18. The Faculty String Quartet will Enrollment Stands at 6,699, Down 4.1 % present a free concert at 12 noon on Tuesday, November 17. The program will (Continued from page 1) include Luigi Boccherini's Quartet No. 5 in G minor, Op. 27, No. 2; Alexander Local sources of students .are likely to enrollment and part-time students about Borodin's "Nocturne" from Quartet No. 2 be the key to stabilizing Grand Valley's 45 percent. in D major; and Ludwig van Beethoven's enrollment, Stockman predicts, since • FTIAC students have increased from Quartet No. 3 in D major, Op. 18, No . 3. housing on and near campus has been 43 percent in 1979 to 50 percent in 1981, Bandorama, an evening of music by 'filled to capacity for several years, with · while transfer students decreased from the Marching Band and Wind Ensemble, no prospects for significant increases in 57 percent in 1979 to 50 percent in 1981. will be presented at 8 p.m., Wednesday, the number of units of such housing in • The number of minority students has November 18. the near futur~. increased slightly over the past three The Wind Ensemble will perform "In order to attract that local market, years. Largest increases were in Asian/ "Armenian Dances" by Loris Chobanian the colleges will probably have to take a Pacific Islanders, (30 percent), Hispanics and "Three Dance Episodes" from long, hard look at not only what classes (29 percent), and American Indian and Leonard Bernstein's ballet, On the Town.