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Enrollment

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Douglas College's credit enrollment jumped
an "incredible" 19.6 per cent this fall,
pushing the part and full time student pop-
ulation to 4,155.

Last year, Douglas College enrolled, at its
New Westminster Campus and Maple Ridge
Centre, a total of 3,473 and ended up turn-
ing away over 500 students.

College President Bill Day credited the new
campus for the dramatic increase.

“The new campus has been responsible for
the high increase in enrollment in two ways;
one is that the new facility with all its
amenities has attracted a greater number of
students; and secondly, the larger class-

rooms gave us the flexibility to increase

the class size," Day said.
Despite the increase in class size, which in

‘many instances rose from 30 to 40, many stu-

 

dents still were not able to enroll in
courses they had wanted.

/A course availability survey conducted dur-

ing registration showed 32.9 per cent of
students enrolling were not able to register
in the courses they wanted or in many cases,
needed,

"By increasing the class size we certainly
have improved our efficiency, but if we were
completely to meet the demand and needs of
the students at this time, we would need to
offer more course sections," Day said.

"And that means more funding."

Day warned that without the ability to add
more course sections, college enrol|lment was
effectively at its uppermost limit. However,
some long term changes in the way courses
are offered could result in a greater number
of students.

"The faculty were very cooperative in in-
creasing the class size, but in most cases

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| B.C. STUDENT ASSISTANCE PROGRAM

we now have a situation where the actual
physical classroom will not hold anymore
Students," Day explained.

Day was quick to point out that tne admin-
istration was still trying to find ways to
accommodate the growing demand for a college
education,

Douglas College Community Programs also reg-
isters approximately 6,000 non-credit stu-

 

Student Finance News

Due to a significant delay by the B.C. Gov-
ernment in releasing information on the 1983/}
84 B.C. Student Assistance Program (student
loans and grants), processing of financial
aid applications is behind schedule by about
two months.

To date, only 10 students have received their
loans, from a total of about 500 applica-
tions. As a result, many of our students
will be experiencing severe financila prob-
lems in the first month(s) of this year. We
would appreciate it if you would keep this

in mind when instructing students to buy
books and related course materials. If there
are materials that will not be used in the
first month of classes, please advise your
students that they can delay pruchase of such
items.

WORK STUDY

Our budget for the Work-Study program has
been reduced from $20,000 to $6,750. Posi-
tions will be adjudicated by the Work-Study
Committee within the next week. We apolog-
ize in advance to those of you whose appli-
cations we will be forced to reject.

 

 

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