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UNC-Charlotte Has Grown
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CHARLOTTE According
to the Office of Admissions at
the University of North
Carolina at Charlotte, many
more students are choosing
to attend UNCC this year
than ever before.
Through June 1, the
number of freshman applica-
tions increased 18 percent,
from 3,889 in 1985 to 4,604 in
1986. University officials at-
tribute a large part of this in-
crease to a survey in last
Nov. 25’s “U.S. News and
World Report,” in which col-
lege presidents ranked UNCC
as the third best among 158
comprehensive institutions in
the South. The magazine
defined comprehensive as a
larger school that grants
more than half its bachelor’s
degrees in occupations.
Titled ‘‘America’s Best
‘picked it u
largest university. :
Craig Fulton, associate
director of admissions at
UNCC believes that the arti-
cle has had an impact in in-
creased applications on both
the state and national level.
“Not only could people who
read the U.S. News and
World Report see this article,
but the Associated Press
and other news
media publicized articles on
it,”’ said Fulton, who heard
about the survey when wat-
ching television news.
Fulton said there has been
a seven percent increase in
the out-of-state applications
from June ‘85 to June ‘86 and
that ‘““‘we seem to be making a
favorable impression to those
who hear about us for the
first time.
Diane Locklin, a recep-
Fulton says there are other
factors which have con-
tributed to this increase. He
believes that another factor
is that the Chamber of Com-
merce has been ‘‘selling’”
UNCC to the public, par-
ticularly through UNCC'’s in-
volvement in nearby Univer-
sity Research Park and
University Place—both of
which have received national
media attention.
Another factor is the con-
struction of new ‘‘residence
facilities’’ that will be com-
pleted this fall and will house
500 more students—some who
may have decided to go
elsewhere if they couldn’t
live on campus. About one-
third of the entire student
body lives on campus.
According to Jackie Simp-
son, the director of housing,
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tionist in the Admissions Of-
fice, has noticed an increase
in the number of students
calling to get information
about attending UNCC since
the survey was published.
She added that before the
survey, “most of the out-of-
state calls were regional;
now we're getting a lot more
calls nationally.”
Although the magazine
survey helped bring the rise
in student applications,
Colleges,’’ the survey labeled
the schools ranked as ‘“‘the
nation’s pacesetters’’ in in-
sisting that their students be
educated broadly. The article
also labeled UNCC as the
least expensive in its
category.
The surge of applications is
sure to push UNCC’s enroll-
ment over the 11,000 mark
this fall. The 1985-86 enroll-
ment was 10,842, making
UNCC the state’s fourth
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the new ‘‘residence
facilities’’ will have cable
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floors and computer ter-
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