UP AND UP: Community college enrollment (above)...
UP AND UP: Community college enrollment (above) has been climbing steadily in Orange County since it bottomed out in 1985, the year tuition was introduced. . . . Now, with the talk of recession, administrators are expecting even greater gains. “Historically, when employment gets tight, people go back to school,” says one administrator. . . . Has it begun already? Opening-day enrollment at Orange Coast College, the county’s biggest, was up 15%, but officials say they are unsure of the reason.
COMMUNITY COLLEGE ENROLLMENT RISING
Orange County’s full- and part-time fall enrollment, in thousands of students:
‘81: 206
‘83: 170
* ‘85: 155
‘87: 167
‘89: 184
* Tuition introduced statewide
Source: Calif. Dept. of Finance
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