IUNL summer enrollment increases
Growth recorded for first time in several years
f By Jennifer u ciika
Senior Reporter
The number of students taking
summer courses at the University of
Nebraska-Lincoln increased about 2.6
percent this year.
Figures released by the Institu
tional Research Planning and Fiscal
Analysis Department showed that 380
more students attended summer ses
sions this year, which increased this
year’s enrollment to 14,889 students.
Herb Smail, associate director of
summer sessions, said he was pleased
with the increase.
“It’s the first time in several years
we’ve had any growth,” Smail said.
“Summer session enrollment had been
on a slow downward trend since 1986.
We feel that last year was probably
what we’d call bottoming out. We
might be on the growth side now.”
Smail said increases in the number
of summer students were fairly com
mon among summer schools nation
wide.
“lt.seems like most were flatten
ing out last year or starting to gain a
little bit,” he said.
According to the research plan
ning department, the biggest under
graduate percentage increase -15.59
percent - occurred among students in
the Institute of Agriculture and Natu
ral Resources. The number of stu
dents increased by 46, four during the
pre-session, two in the eight-week
session, 16 in the first five-week ses
sion and 24 in the second five-week
session.
The College of Arts and Sciences
posted the highest gain in the number
of summer students with 176. This
was a 7.48-percent change from 1989
90.
The Teachers College lost the most
students, 72. The decrease was 4.99
percent. The Division of Continuing
Studies lost 71 summer students, a
decrease of 9.67 percent.
On the graduate level, 132 more
students attended summer sessions,
an increase of 3.36 percent.
Smail called the changes “a steady
growth over everything” that was not
yet attributable to any one factor.
But Smail gave many reasons why
students benefit from summer ses
sions.
For entering freshman, summer
sessions offer a “jump start on the
year,” Smail said. When fall rolls
around, freshmen can lake lighter
course loads while adjusting to the
pressures of life on campus, he said.
“It just makes that fall a whole lot
easier,” he said.
Students who have been at UNL
for a year or more may get into courses
during the summer that were full in
the fall. Smail said his office urged
departments to offer courses during
the summer that many students couldn't
get into during the academic year.
Some courses, such as geology,
anthropology and bioscicnce field
camps, arc not offered at times other
than summer, Smail said.
The summer sessions office al
ready has begun work on next year’s
course schedule. The schedule will
be available to students right before
or after Christmas Break.
Kiley Timperley/Daily Nebraskan
Donald Neff, a transfer student, registers for classes with the help
of Wendi Baus, a New Student Enrollment host. After one of the
highest summer enrollments in years, fall enrollment is expected
to decline slightly.
Reserves
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Allison said his drill sergeant told
his unit that it probably would not be
activated.
Being activated depends on the
need in the Middle East and at bases
vacated by servicemen and women
lighting in the Persian Gulf.
White House press secretary Mar
lin Fit/water issued a statement
Wednesday that said jobs in such
areas as cargo handling, airlift, food
and water handling, surface transpor
tation, medical services,construction
and intelligence needed to be filled.
All reservists said they thought
deploying forces in the Middle East
was necessary to stop the aggression
of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein.
David Larsen, a corpsman in the
Navy Reserves, said he thought U.S.
forces were just following interna
tional law and protecting Saudi Ara
bia from aggressors.
Larsen, a junior nursing major,
also said most of his friends in the unit
were excited about serving.
“I really don’t want to go,' he
said. “But if I’m called up, I’ll go
serve my country.”
800 graduates get
degrees from UNL
About 800 graduates received
baccalaureate, professional and gradu
ate degrees during University of
Ncbraska-Lincoln’sCommcnccmcni
exercises Saturday.
The exercises were held in the Bob
Devancy Sports Center. Martin Mas
sengalc, UNL chancellor and interim
president, presided. John Goebel,
associate chancellor and vice chan
cellor for business and finance pre
sented the commencement address.
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