Spring enrollment up at ATU-Ozark, UAFS

Spring enrollment figures show an increase in students physically and electronically attending to area universities.

The spring 2011 enrollment at Arkansas Tech University-Ozark Campus is 1,406, up 15.9% compared to spring 2010 enrollment.

"Arkansas Tech-Ozark has a mission of providing access to higher education to students in our region, and they find the Ozark Campus to be a student-centered campus where they not only learn skills, but where they feel welcome,” ATU-Ozark Chancellor Dr. Jo Alice Blondin said in a statement.

Spring enrollment in 2010 at ATU-Ozark was up 53.5% compared to 2009.

The 2011 spring enrollment at the University of Arkansas at Fort Smith is 7,058, a 3.3% increase over last spring’s record enrollment. The spring full-time equivalency (FTE) number to 5,464, a 6.1% increase from last spring’s record FTE enrollment.

Also, the spring 2010 enrollment was a 7% increase over 2009.

“We show double-digit percentage increases in the number of students declaring majors in three of our colleges — the College of Humanities and Social Sciences, the College of Languages and Communications, and the College of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics,” Dr. Ray Wallace, provost and senior vice chancellor, said in a statement. “In addition, we saw solid increases in all our academic colleges in terms of the numbers of semester hours being taught.”

Wallace also said UAFS has also had a 54% increase in the number of students who are working on “degree completer programs at the various community colleges across the state,” noted the UAFS statement.
 
“These students are place-bound, but UA Fort Smith sends degree programs — such as the Bachelor of Applied Science, the Bachelor of Organizational Leadership, and a degree completer program in nursing — to them via face-to-face instruction, on-line instruction and instruction via the internet and compressed video,” Wallace said.