University is not alone
in enrollment squeeze
More than 50,000 qualified
students are expected to be
turned away from state
universities and land-grant
colleges around the United
States next fall as the result of
record freshman admission
applications.
This report from the
National Association of State
Universities and Land-Grant
Colleges comes at a time when
budget reductions have
threatened to force an
enrollment ceiling at the
University of Nebraska.
No enrollment restrictions
have been imposed at NU, but
further reductions in state aid
or severe housing, classroom or
faculty shortages might prompt
such a move. Nebraska
residents would be given
priority if limitations were
placed on enrollment.
BUT THE PREDICTED
50,000 rejections are
concentrated on a small
number of campuses.
Thirty-four of the 92
universities to return a forecast
indicated that they expect to
reject 5 1 ,.352 qualified
applicants.
And most of this number
was concentrated in five
universities who expect to turn
down 28,800 applications.
The University of
Massachusetts, with a current
freshman enrollment of 3,625,
predicts it will have to turn away
7,000 qualified students. Of
this total 4,000 will be state
residents.
Second in rejection rates
will be the State University of
New York at Albany, with
6,000 to be turned down.
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TUESDAY, MAY 18, 1971
Pennsylvania State
University is third with 5,800
predicted rejections, half of
which will be state residents
REASONS FOR the high
percentage of resident
rejections include a rise of
in-state applications and a drop
of out-of-staters applying to
state universities and colleges.
Applications from in-state
residents have risen five per
cent over last year, while the
rate of out-of-state applications
has dropped 5.2 per cent.
The unstable economy was
listed most frequently as the
reason applications have
dropped this year. Campus
unrest was listed as the second
most important reason for
decrease.
Kent State University, for
example, had a 66 per cent
decrease in out-of-state
applications following the
incidents there last May. This
was 14 per cent higher than the
school with the second
greatest percentage of
decrease.
KENT STATE also
experienced the largest
percentage of decrease for
in-state applications (48 per
cent). As of the March deadline
2,575 fewer Ohio residents had
applied for freshman status the
next fall.
The state of the economy
was given by Kent officials as
the number one reason for
their decline.
Other reasons given in
the report for the drop in
applications at some
institutions are the growth of
junior colleges, the draft and a
loss of faith in higher
education.
1 '309
250 high schoolers
to attend All-State
More than 250 Nebraska
high school and junior high
school students have signed up
for three weeks of music, art,
speech, drama, and dance
instruction.
"We have 252 registered so
far for the 1971 All-State Fine
Arts Program for High School
Students, June 13-July 1, and
we are continuing to accept
applications," said John
Moran, a professor of music.
Moran noted that for the
first time, All-State has been
granted use of an entire
residence building, Sandoz
Hall. 'This provides us with
room for more All-Staters and
is an ideal location. It is air -conditioned
and adjacent to a
dining hall, snack bar and
recreatiion area and has
attached swimming pool."
Legal Rights
group meets
An organizational meeting
of the ASUN Legal Rights
Committee is scheduled for
Friday at 3:30 p.m. in the
Nebraska Union.
All students interested in
working either this summer of
next year are urged to attend,
according to Committee
Chairman John Humlicek.
Some areas that will be
researched during the coming
year include hiring a lawyer for
the student body, a legal
referral service and more work
on the concept of tenant's
rights and work on a
codification of rights for
student teachers.
Help!
!
Students are needed.
Anyone interested in serving
on the Advisory Committee on
Recreation and Intramurals or
on the Help Line Advisory
Board should leave their name
at the ASUN office, third
f xr, Nebraska Union.
THE DAILY NEB RASKAN
Volunteer van helps
solve wheel woes
A 1969 Chevrolet van,
recently purchased with a
$3,000 grant from the
Associated Students of the
University of Nebraska, will be
made available to "anybody,
campus or community"
according to a member of the
Student Volunteer Council.
Jim Pipher said "a big
problem for volunteer groups
has been transportation." The
van will provide transportation
for groups which can't provide
sufficient transportation for
their projects.
The Student Volunteer
Council, which was started this
year, is responsible for the van
which is owned by the
University of Nebraska
Foundation. Pipher said the
van should be in full usage by
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Currently, if a group wants
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fall the van will be obtainable
directly through the Student
Volunteer Council
Pipher said an office will be
occupied by the Student
Volunteer Council next year
and that volunteers will be
needed to handle the office
duties. In addition to the office
personnel, volunteers are
needed to drive the van.
Pipher said use of the van
is open now but "priorities will
have to be set as more and
more people find out about
it." He expressed a hope that
groups will realize the
limitations of the
transportation project and not
take undue advantage of it.
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