These data show that capacity exists only at the low end of room sizes and any change that increases section size will further worsen this inefficiency in classroom usage. Also note that these data refer to undergraduate sections only. At least some of the smaller classrooms are taken up with day graduate courses, which tend to be somewhat smaller. Total enrollment in those sections. Fall 1999 Undergraduate Day Course Summary Table A4 shows classroom utilization rates for the Fall quarter of 1999.
Utilization is defined as the percentage of available classrooms in use in any time period.
In order to assess the impact of a change to any semester plan, the University Budget Office has carried out projections of student enrollments. While the original intent was to investigate the financial feasibility of a change to semesters, the projections are useful estimates of the changes to be expected in student course enrollments and sections to be staffed between the quarter system and either of the two semester system plans. Table A5 shows a projection total student enrollments in any given year. The projections assume an entering Freshman class each year of 2800 and then estimates the number of students remaining from that Freshman cohort in any upper division year using agreed upon retention figures. When added to the transfer students, these numbers give the total expected enrollment in any quarter.