Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1956 [PAGE 39]

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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

[July 26

Table 4 Academic Survival at the Chicago Undergraduate Division Number All New Freshmen Entering in the Fall of 1950 1,236 Number Withdrawing Before Completing 2 Years at C.U.D., and Not Transferring to Another School 692 Reasons: Scholastic 376 Reason Not Known 72 Personal 68 Military Service 51 Planned Schooling Completed 34 Financial 3° Health 23 Educational Needs Not Met 20 Disciplinary n Moved Away 7_ 692 Number Withdrawing Before Completing 2 Years at C.U.D., but Transferring to Other Schools 147 Transferring to: Another School in Chicago Area 59 Urbana 55 Out-of-State 25 Another Illinois School, not U. of I., and Outside the Chicago A r e a . . . 5 Professional Campus 3 147 Total Withdrawals Before Completing 2 Years of W o r k . . 839 Number Completing 2 Years at C.U.D., then Transferring to Another School 317 Transferring to: Urbana 203 Another School in Chicago A r e a . . . . 76 Professional Campus 23 Out-of-State 11 Another Illinois School, not U. of I., and Outside the Chicago Area. . . _4_ 317 Number Completing 2 Years at C.U.D., but Not Transferring to Another School 80 No Record of Further Schooling 60 Military Service 20 80

Per Cent 100.o 56.0

11.9

67.9 25.6

6.5

and senior zvork. Especially this is true when a very small proportion of qualified students fail to continue advanced college work elsewhere. B. Population Reasons The main reason for developing a four-year undergraduate division in the Chicago area is that approximately 53 per cent of the 8,000,000 inhabitants of the State of Illinois reside in Cook County. Paralleling these figures is the residence distribution of the students at the University of Illinois. Approximately one-half of all students enrolled on the three campuses of the University reside in Cook County; on the Champaign-Urbana campus alone, the registrants from Cook County have been in the neighborhood of one-third for some years. With the concentration of population in Cook County, the question might well be asked: "Can the present colleges in Cook County take care of the expected increase?" The 1953-54 undergraduate enrollment in the six major colleges in the Chicago area was 15,295, divided as shown in Table 5. On April