Enrollment Query

[Denis Crnkovic]

Colleagues,


Enrollments at Gustavus Adolphus College have been dismal for the past two
years. We are suffering from the institution of a required first term
seminar that gives incoming frosh one less slot to play around with. We are
also fighting scheduling conflicts with our honors program, traditionally a
source of Russian students. Add that to the portrayal of Russia as a
"basket case" on the nightly news and the results are disastrous. Needless
to say, the keepers of the burse are on our tails to increase enrollments.

Some figures:

Fall 1994
1st             2nd             3rd             Adv             Abroad
9               7                      5              4              0

Fall 1995
1st             2nd             3rd             Adv             Abroad
8                 7                     6              2                1


These are down considerably from 4 -5 years ago when we had as many as
thrity-five students in beginning classes. We nonetheless continue to have
a consistent number of majors, which ranges from 8-12 in any given
semester.

Thanks to everyone who's been contributing to this discussion. It will make
for good data when the dean calls us in for the usual doomsday speech....

Denis C.

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Denis Crnkovic'
Russian Language and Area Studies
Gustavus Adolphus College
Saint Peter, Minnesota 56082
cronk at gac.edu
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