{"id":355,"date":"2016-12-21T13:52:58","date_gmt":"2016-12-21T18:52:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nacacadmitted.wpengine.com\/wordpress\/?p=355"},"modified":"2016-12-23T10:50:23","modified_gmt":"2016-12-23T15:50:23","slug":"survey-colleges-taking-longer-to-meet-enrollment-targets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/2016\/12\/21\/survey-colleges-taking-longer-to-meet-enrollment-targets\/","title":{"rendered":"Survey: Colleges Taking Longer to Meet Enrollment Targets"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_356\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-356\" style=\"width: 726px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-356\" src=\"http:\/\/nacacadmitted.wpengine.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/AdmissionOffice.jpg\" alt=\"iStockl\" width=\"726\" height=\"482\" srcset=\"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/AdmissionOffice.jpg 726w, https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/AdmissionOffice-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 726px) 100vw, 726px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-356\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">iStock<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Admission professionals who are diligently working to build a freshman class face increasing challenges, data suggests.<\/p>\n<p>For the Fall 2016 cycle, only 37 percent of colleges reported meeting their enrollment goals by May 1, according to <em>Inside Higher Ed\u2019s<\/em> annual <a href=\"https:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/news\/survey\/pressure-build-class-2016-survey-admissions-directors\"><em>Survey of College and University Admissions Directors<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The results stem from answers from 339 admission directors at both two- and four-year institutions, and suggest that it\u2019s getting tougher for admission professionals to lock in their freshman class.<\/p>\n<p>In the previous year, 41 percent of respondents had met their enrollment goals by May 1.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cDigging into the data, the decline is almost entirely due to the community college sector,\u201d according to a summary of the survey.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s important to note that many two-year schools don\u2019t focus as closely as four-year institutions on the May 1 deadline. Many community colleges continue to recruit students throughout the summer months, survey authors note.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStill, (in 2015), 20 percent of community colleges were reporting that they had met their targets by May 1,\u201d the summary reads. \u201cThis year the total is only 9 percent, which does not bode well for community colleges that have been fighting enrollment declines.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Admitted writer\/editor Mary Stegmeir welcomes additional comments and story ideas at\u00a0<a style=\"font-style: inherit;font-weight: inherit\" href=\"mailto:mstegmeir@nacacnet.org\">mstegmeir@nacacnet.org<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Admission professionals who are diligently working to build a freshman class face increasing challenges, data suggests. For the Fall 2016 cycle, only 37 percent of colleges reported meeting their enrollment goals by May 1, according to Inside Higher Ed\u2019s annual Survey of College and University Admissions Directors. The results stem from answers from 339 admission &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/2016\/12\/21\/survey-colleges-taking-longer-to-meet-enrollment-targets\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Survey: Colleges Taking Longer to Meet Enrollment Targets<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[105,218,219],"class_list":["post-355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-college-admission","tag-community-college","tag-enrollment-goals","tag-survey-of-college-and-university-admissions-directors"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Mary Stegmeir","author_link":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/author\/mstegmeir\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peWmJq-5J","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}