INSIDE DOUGLAS COLLEGE / September 17, 1991

 

 

Record numbers
seek aid

Douglas College students are seek-
ing financial aid in record numbers.
Applications for student loans are
up 23 percent over last year,

reports the Students Finances &
Placement Office.

“This is the most applications
ever received for student loans at
Douglas College,” said SFP Officer
Patty Lewis. “We have increases
every year, but this is the most
dramatic.” A total of 1, 078 students
had sought aid by the first week of
September, up from 876 in the
same period in 1990.

The increase at Douglas College
is consistent with demands at public
post-secondary institutions across
the province. The Ministry of Ad-
vanced Education reports 19,307
loan application so far this year, up
from 17,472 in 1990.

Lewis pointed to a poor summer
job market and more adults with
families attending college as
reasons for the increase. &

 

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enough for people who needed help. “I saw thet needs of individuals
were’nt being met. They were simply being entertained,and | thought,
‘there has to be more to it than that.’”

Both students see the Spokane conference as a chance to learn from top
experts in therapeutic recreation. “It’s a good opportunity to meet the
people in the field, the ones who write the books,” says Resnik. m@

 

Nice hat, Anne

 

 

 

 

 

Anne Fenton (right) was the winner in the Crazy Hat Contest
two weeks ago. Her prize was an ICL gift certificate. Brenda
Justason (left) won Canucks tickets in the raffle.

 

 

 

 

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While not yet having the final tally of late registrants, Registrar Patricia
Angus said fall 1991 enrolment will easily top 1990's total of 6,753

students.

“| like to remain conservative when predicting final numbers, but if we
go according to plan, we’d be at 7,300. That’s a hefty increase over last fall.
It’s one of the biggest jumps we’ve had,” she said.

Citing reasons for burgeoning enrolment, Gilgan said the number of ma-
ture students returning for career retraining remains high (about 25 percent)
but believes the biggest factor is a changing attitude in high school students.

“Most of our increase is because it is now recognized that you need
some post-secondary training before you can get into the job market,” he
said. “The number of high school graduates is not increasing dramatically,
but the number of them entering college is.”

Gilgan added that tight enrolment may also discourage some adult
students from seeking college retraining.

“One implication is that this will discourage people who want to retrain
from leaving their jobs, no matter how distasteful they find them, because
they are not sure of getting into college.”

Gilgan said he still favours starting a full trimester system by expanding
the summer semester, but he believes that this will do little to solve

September crowding.

“Even though we expanded the last summer semester, it really did not
have an impact. My expectation is that if we were to expand the summer
again, it wouldn’t solve the problem for the fall semester.” m

 

 

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