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ERIC Number: ED288585
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1987-Dec
Pages: 18
Abstractor: N/A
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: N/A
EISSN: N/A
Enrollment Projections: Template and Guide.
Findlen, George L.
Small community colleges with enrollments between 500 and 2,500 students have traditionally been unable to afford to hire an institutional researcher or to lease sophisticated statistical packages to perform enrollment analyses, though their needs for enrollment projections are the same as those of larger institutions. Fortunately, with a personal computer, a desktop printer, and the Lotus 1-2-3 software package, a dean with initiative and curiosity can gain valuable program information at a relatively small cost. One of the primary strengths of Lotus 1-2-3 is that it allows a user to do linear regression to project trends in enrollments, dropouts, or total annual revenue. Though the benefits of having past and likely future enrollments on a single sheet of paper or screen are obvious, users should be cautioned that future enrollments are assumed to adhere absolutely to the trend line established by all past enrollments entered into the template, and that linear regression should not be used to project more than two semesters of future enrollment if there are only 10 semesters in the enrollment history section. The following materials concerning the use of Lotus 1-2-3 in enrollment projections are included: (1) contents to be typed into each cell of a 1-2-3 spreadsheet to create a template for projecting future enrollments; (2) a set of instructions for using the template as-is and for modifying it; and (3) illustrations of blank and completed templates, and a sample graph. (UCM)
Publication Type: Guides - Non-Classroom
Education Level: N/A
Audience: Researchers
Language: English
Sponsor: N/A
Authoring Institution: Delgado Community Coll., New Orleans, LA.
Grant or Contract Numbers: N/A