We're just trying to add some smiles to this school. Despite enrollment limitations placed on the school by the Board of Regents last academic year, enrollment at GSU is hovering around the same number of students that registered the previous year. The Regents plan, implemented in June 1997, was to limit the growth at GSU to an average of two percent a year. The Regents were determined to give GSU time to absorb the large number of students already enrolled and they also wanted to give the school time to catch up with programs and facilities. The final enrollment numbers wil not be available until Oct. 19, but Registrar Michael Deal said he is hoping the numbers will remain stable.
Deal expects the number to increase when all the enrollment totals are calculated.
The number should be very close to last year's enrollment, Deal said. Enrollment is lower so far mainly as a result of the changes GSU has undergone in the last year. The switch to the semester system and the change in admission standards slightly affected enrollment, according to an article in The Statesboro Herald. The enrollment numbers are still about even though, mostly because of the high number of registered freshman. Last year there were 2,488 new students to the school, including transfer students.