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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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The Increase in "Enrollment Capacity" Resulting from the 1967-69 Building Program Enrollment Projections. Delays in the 1965-67 building program — a n d the need to fund budget deficiencies for several projects before construction can begin — have forced revisions of previous enrollment projections, and make it difficult to predict with much assurance the dates by which given enrollment levels will be reached. The estimates presented in Table I (below) represent what appear to be realistic expectations as to enrollments at the University's three campuses through 1971-72. An overall increase of about 50 per cent is indicated over the six-year period — the greater part at Chicago Circle. But changes in the timing of availability of facilities and other unforeseen contingencies could alter these projections. As compared with 1965-66, the figures for 1971-72 in Table I show the following enrollment trends for the several educational levels: (a) only a slight increase (10 per cent) for freshmen and sophomores; (b) approximately a doubling of enrollment at junior-senior level; (c) an increase of 54 per cent in professional enrollment; (d) a graduate enrollment increase of 75 per cent. The probability of achieving the change in pattern of undergraduate distribution will depend largely on the demand for transfer to the University on the part of junior-college graduates. If this demand does not materialize to the extent forecast, a higher proportion of freshmen and sophomores would be enrolled at the undergraduate level. There should be no difficulty in reaching the levels forecast for professional and graduate students •— if the facilities are available. T a b l e I . A c t u a l E n r o l l m e n t s ( H e a d c o u n t s ) for 1965-66 and E n r o l l m e n t P r o j e c t i o n s for 1968-69, 1970-71, a n d 1971-72 a t All T h r e e C a m p u s e s of t h e U n i v e r s i t y of Illinois JuniorPi 'ofes- Graduate Graduate FreshmanSenior si'onal Sophomore I II Campus Total Chicago Circle 991 6 759 1 771 1965-66 .. 8 629 9 300 4 400 850 1968-69 . 150 14 700 1970-71 10 600 8 350 1 200 350 20 500 1971-72... 9 500 10 500 1 400 600 22 000 Medical Center 2 108 134 141 1965-66 2 383 2 539 293 184 1968-69 3 016 2 904 384 1970-71 213 3 501 3 115 417 1971-72 230 3 762 Urbana- Champaign 3 441 11 358 8 756 749 3 637 27 941 1965-66 11 200 820 3 880 4 100 29 500 1968-69 9 500 11 000 995 1970-71 10 700 4 305 4 500 31 500 10 500 140 11 200 1 1971-72 4 410 4 600 31 850 All Campuses 2 857 3 674 18 117 10 527 3 778 38 953 1965-66 13 900 3 359 20 500 5 023 4 434 47 216 1968-69 19 050 3 899 1970-71 21 600 55 501 5 889 5 063 21 700 1971-72 20 000 4 255 57 612 6 227 5 430

1 These students are in the Jane Addams Graduate School of Social Work formerly located at the Medical Center Campus.

The Gain in "Enrollment Capacity." Although the 1967-69 building program is not designed solely to provide facilities for increased enrollment, this is its primary purpose. Hence, it is desirable to specify as precisely as possible the increments of enrollment increase at each campus that would be made possible by the buildings listed above in Schedules A, B, and C. In order to make such estimates, it is necessary to identify the period of time during which these particular buildings at each campus are contributing to gains