DOCUMENT RESUME ED 452 926 JC 010 374 AUTHOR Glyer-Culver, Betty TITLE Los Rios Community College District Fall 2000 Student Profile, Based upon First Census Data. INSTITUTION Los Rios Community Coll. District, Sacramento, CA. Office of Institutional Research. PUB DATE 2000-10-00 NOTE 7p. AVAILABLE FROM For full text: http://irweb.do.losrios.cc.ca.us. PUB TYPE Numerical/Quantitative Data (110) Reports - Descriptive (141) EDRS PRICE MF01/PC01 Plus Postage. DESCRIPTORS College Attendance; *Community Colleges; *Enrollment; *Enrollment Trends; *School Demography; *Student Characteristics; Two Year Colleges IDENTIFIERS *Los Rios Community College District CA ABSTRACT This is the eleventh in a series of Los Rios Community College District (LRCCD)(California) fall student profiles. These annual summaries provide the district and its colleges--American River College (ARC), Cosumnes River College (CRC), and Sacramento City College (SCC)--with data on student demographics and enrollment trends. The Fall 2000 Student Profile includes a brief analysis of the separate demographic data for the Folsom Lake and El Dorado centers, which are part of Cosumnes River College. This report presents student enrollment data and Weekly Student Contact Hours (WSCH) based on official Fall First Census report. Highlights include: (1) enrollment has increased substantially each year since fall 1996; through fall 1999, the increase totaled 21%;(2) the proportions by ethnicity remained stable, as did enrollment by gender;(3) the trend toward an older student body at Los Rios continues, with 22% of all students enrolled 40-and-over; however, students who are 18 through 20 remain the largest proportions of the district's enrollment, at 25% this fall; and (4) attendance patterns have shifted over the past five years, with fewer students taking courses offered during the day only or during the evening only than in 1995. 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October 2000 This is the eleventh in a series of Los Rios Community College District (LRCCD) Fall Student Profiles.These annual summaries provide the District and its collegesAmerican River College (ARC), Cosumnes River College (CRC) and Sacramento City College (SCC)--with data on student demographics and enrollment trends, important information for successful planning to meet the needs of our changing student clientele. The Fall 2000 Student Profile includes a brief analysis of the separate demographic data for the Folsom Lake and El Dorado centers which are part of Cosumnes River College. This report presents student enrollment data and Weekly Student Contact Hours (WSCH) based on official Fall First Census reports that are issued at the beginning of the fourth week of classes.The report is also based upon demographic data generated from the official Fall Fourth Week Census research database. Analysis of demographic data since Fall 1993 includes all students enrolled as of the fourth week of classes. Analysis of student demography is based upon data that excludes those students who have dropped their courses by first census and those who have no corresponding match on the course schedule file. District Enrollment District Weekly Student Contact Hours Chart 1 presents fall district enrollment data for the Los Similar to District enrollment in Fall 2000, Weekly Student Rios Community College District. The enrollment pattern Contact Hours (WSCH) increased, but by a slightly lower tends to reflect variations in state funding and school age 1.9%. As indicated by Chart 2, this is the sixth annual population trends. Fee increases that took effect in 1993 increase. probably contributed to the enrollment drop for that year, a drop that followed two years of more subtle decline. Chart 2 Enrollment was stabilized the following year, declining by LRCCD WSCH: Fall 1990 to Fall 2000 less than 0.02% (9 fewer students) in Fall 1994 and in Fall 1995 by only 0.1% (69 fewer students). 0) co 47 U, co ;-0 sr M0) CNI O GD CD Oca a) IC) csi cc; Oif) Chart 1 600,0000) rn rn Fs: rn LRCCD Enrollment: Fall 1990 to Fall 2000 szr 400,000 x (.0C.) 200,000 0 90 9192 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 00 Year * Data revisions occur in July, following the end of each academic year After a decline in WSCH, starting in Fall 1992, WSCH began steadily increasing from 1995 forward. Moreover, the ratio of WSCH to enrollment had been-fairly consistent Data revisions occur in July, following the end of each academic year. from Fall 1989 to Fall 1997, averaging 9.4 during these Since then, enrollment has increased annually beginning nine years. However the WSCH to enrollment ratio at 4th with a 4.1% increase in Fall 1996, a 3.9% increase in Fall week was a lower 8.8 both in Fall 1998 and 1999 and a 1997 and a 9.7% enrollment increase in Fall 1998. Los slightly lower 8.7 in Fall 2000. This may be reflective of Rios enrollment increases continued in Fall 1999, with a the combined effects of an older student population who 6.4% increase and a 2.5% enrollment increase in Fall tend to take lighter unit loads as well as the increase in 2000. student enrollment at the Folsom Lake and El Dorado centers where students also tend to take lighter unit loads Enrollment increased at each of the Los Rios colleges in due to current facilities limitations. Fall 2000: by 0.06% at ARC (to 27,384), by 3.9% at CRC (to 9,923, noting that Folsom Lake and El Dorado An additional impact on the enrollment to WSCH ratio is enrollment figures are now reported separately), by 4.3% the effect of the increase in Special Admit students who at SCC (to 20,060) and by 5.4% (to 6,328) at the Folsom also generally take just one or two classes at their .Los Lake and El Dorado centers. Rios college.However, enrollment of new high school graduatesa group that tends to enroll in a higher number BEST COPY AVAILABLE 2 of units than the average student--increased 10.9% from categories except Native Americans (noting the small Fall 1998 to Fall 1999 and enrollment remained stable in numbers) and a higher proportionof white student Fall 2000.In addition, this student population took a (64.8%) enrollment, although the proportion of white slightly higher unit load in Fall 2000 compared to the students enrolled at ARC has decreased by 3.1% since previous year, helping to balance the combined effects of Fall 1995. an older student body and special admits on the enrollment to WSCH ratio.These shifts in the course Analysis of the Folsom Lake and El Dorado centers' Fall taking patterns of different groups of Los Rios students 2000ethnicityprofileresultsina muchdifferent tend to impact the WSCH to enrollment ratios. enrollment pattern. Thereisa substantially higher proportion of white students enrolled at both the Folsom District Enrollment by Ethnicity Lake andElDoradocenters,76.0% and 84.0%, respectively. Chart 3 depicts the District's ethnic composition in Fall 2000. The Fall 2000 distribution of ethnic students at Los District Enrollment by Gender Rios colleges of 39.7% generally mirrors the Fall 1999 pattern and is just slightly higher than the 39.1% in Fall Historically, there has been very little change in the 1995. proportions of men and women enrolled at Los Rios colleges, fluctuating less than 1% between fall semesters. Chart 3 Chart 4 illu3tratesthis fact; there was a very slight LRCCD Enrollment by Ethnicity: Fall 2000 decrease (0.7%) in the proportion of women enrolled in Los Rios from Fall 1995 to Fall 2000. African American Chart 4 10.1% LRCCD Enrollment by Gender: Fall 1995 and Fall 2000 Asian 15.7% Latino 12.0% White 55.7% Native American 1.9% Students of all other and unknown ethnic categories. Although Asian students continue to be the largest minority group enrolled at Los Rios, the proportion of The enrollment pattern by gender varies somewhat Asian students enrolled district-wide decreased slightly among the Los Rios colleges. ARC has a higher from 16.4% in Fall 1995 to 15.7% in Fall 2000.The proportionof male students(46.7%) and alower remaining ethnic composition of the District's Fall 2000 proportion of female students (53.3%), than the District for enrollmentisas follows: Latino's,12.0%;African Fall 2000.It is of importance to note ARC's enrollment Americans, 10.1%; Native Americans, 1.9%; and the profile is influenced by the enrollment demography of the remaining 4.5% include students from various other ethnic Public Safety Center program now managed by the ARC minority groups and those students who declined to state campus, which comprises 8.7% of the total ARC student their ethnicity. There continues to be slight declines in the population.The Public Safety Center's demography is proportion of white student enrollment at Los Rios much different than the ARC campus overall with higher colleges, decreasing from 57.4% in Fall 1995 to 55.7% in proportions of older, male students, enrolling only in Fall 2000. classes offered during the day; 80.1% of all Public Safety Center students are male.