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Governor Jim Martin speaks with Chancellor David The two met last month to discuss the new
Brown outside the Phillips Administration building. Center for Creative Retirement in Hendersonville.
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State legislature allocates
funds for Kellogg renovation
By Julie Tilka
Assistant News Editor
The General Assembly recently
awarded UNCA $150,000 for renova
tions on the Kellogg center in Hen
derson County in a last minute ad
dition to a budget bill.
The 50-acre center, which also
includes an 1,800-square-foot house,
is located about 25 miles from the
UNCA campus off of N.C. 191 on
Rugby Road. The center will even
tually be used for conferences, se
minars and retreats.
UNCA was originally in line for
$515,000 in funds, but was cut from
the budget list in the last week of
the legislative session. Sen. R.P.
"Bo" Thomas, D-Henderson County,
went to state Sen. Aaron Plyler,
chairman of the Senate Appropria
tions Committee, and received a
promise of $150,000 this year and
the balance of the appropriation
during next year’s session.
The land, house and a sum of mo
ney was originally donated by the
R.H. Kellogg family to Wake Univer
sity. The university felt the land
was too far from their campuses to
be used to its potential and turned
it over to the state.
The state legislature subsequently
Please see KELLOGG page 7
Enrollment
record
broken
By Trey Harrell ~
Staff Writer
UNCA broke enrollment records
again this fall and freshman applica
tions were up 25 percent from last
year, according to Kip Howard, as
sistant vice chancellor of enrollment
services.
The Enrollment Services office’s
estimate of enrollment at the uni
versity this term "definitely exceeds
3,000," according to Howard.
If the estimate is correct, this
will mark the fourth consecutive
year that attendance records at
UNCA are broken, surpassing last
fall’s record enrollment of 2,939.
The increased interest in attending
UNCA, Howard said, may be because
"more students are seeking liberal
arts education when planning their
careers because of the wider possi
bilities for employment such school
ing provides."
Howard said admissions applica
tions for full time students enrolling
in the fall semester came in at a
rate almost eight percent higher
than for same the period last year.
Applications by freshmen for ad
mission to UNCA was also up ap
proximately 25 percent over fresh
man applicants a year ago.
Transfer students also filed at a
higher rate than last fall, up about
three percent higher, according to
Howard.
Howard stressed that even though
more students were being accepted
and attending UNCA, entrance re
quirements have not been changed.
Note: Official enrollment figures
should be released in time for the
next edition of "The Blue Banner."