Special Populations New First-Time Freshmen

There are 4,746 students who are “new-to-college” in the Fall, 2004 semester – this represents 21% of the students and excludes students who transfer-in to the College from other collegiate institutions. New-to-college students are up 5.2% from last fall’s 4,510 new students.

These new students looked a little different from the total student body by gender (51% were female compared to 56% overall), residency (85% were County residents versus 90% of all students), and credit load (48% were full-time compared to 36% of all students).

The new students were like the total student body by race (41% White compared to 41% collegewide, 28% Black compared to 28% collegewide, 17% Hispanic compared to 15% collegewide) and by citizenship (71% of new students and 67% of all students were U.S. citizens).

Web-based Distance Learning Students

This Fall 1,731 students (7.8% of all students and an increase of 24%) enrolled in at least one web-based distance learning course. Most of them (70%) were also taking more traditional-style classes as well, but there were 516 students taking courses only via the web. There were nearly 7,000 credit hours (6,922) accounted for by enrollments in web-based courses – 3.5% of all credit hours of enrollment in the fall 2004 semester.

[note: these enrollment data do not include courses taught in a “blended” mode – that is, a combination of traditional

classroom and web-based instruction ]

Two-thirds of these students were women, 74% were 21or older, and most (84%) were students previously enrolled (i.e., “continuing”) at the College.