Let’s see now.
Enrollment is up at Ave Maria University. The university has welcomed more than 330 new students and seven new professors. Undergraduate enrollment at Ave Maria now stands at more than 600 compared to 426 last fall.
Enrollment for the fall term at Florida Gulf Coast University is up. Despite a freshmen enrollment freeze due to budget restraints, FGCU reports a startup student body for the fall term of 10,366 compared to 9,496 on the first day last fall. Plus, FGCU President Wilson Bradshaw looks forward with confidence to growing the student body at the same rate since 1997, to 15,000 within five years. (We trust the Florida Legislature is listening. That is going to mean living up to its funding commitment.)
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