This fall’s enrollment is down just 8.75 percent compared to last year. That number seems positively exciting when compared to a 13.6 decline a few years ago. And, new student enrollment dipped “just” 8.47 percent, much better than the 18.8 percent decline last year. The cold hard fact is that enrollment is down — again. Not that the numbers come as any great shock. University officials knew that last year’s graduating class was significantly larger than this year’s incoming freshman group. This fall’s enrollment is 11,695. To find a lower enrollment at SIUC, a person would have to travel back in time to the 1950s.
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