Steinle said high school counselors have given Fort Lewis a few hints about why enrollment is dropping. They are used to going to those games, but they know they are not going to have that down here. Prospective students also want cable television and access to the Internet in their dorm rooms not one phone for the entire floor and a communal television. And perhaps most importantly, students want a meeting place on campus. FLC is also trying to keep students through specialized advising and by clustering courses.
Clustering means groups of students take classes together.
Over the past 14 years, the number of non-resident students has doubled, from 630 in fall 1986 to 1,474for fall 2000. Wrong move, said Steinle. Many Colorado high schools will be visited two or three times, especially along the Front Range. Blanchard said it was the largest crowd since he has been president. So we market to the type of kid who is not hung up on whether he sees a professional game on Saturday.