428 2006 SUMMER ENROLLMENT APPEARS ON PAR WITH PAST TWO YEARS

Date: May 10, 2006

Editorial contact: Randy Weiler, 615-898-2919
Enrollment contact: Sherian Huddleston, 615-898-2828

(MURFREESBORO) — MTSU’s 2006 summer enrollment appears on par with the previous two years’ totals, and may reach or slightly surpass last year’s total of 9,096, an enrollment services official said May 9.
As of May 8, 8,553 students had registered for eight sessions of classes, which will begin May 15, Dr. Sherian Huddleston, assistant vice provost, enrollment services, said. She added that the MTSU headcount stood at 8,612 – nearly 60 fewer students who had registered by the same date in 2005.
“We have a slight decrease from where we were last year,” Huddleston said. “So we’re showing a decline in summer enrollment.”
Huddleston said the 9,096 students who were enrolled in 2005 “was actually a slight increase over the previous summer (9,027), but going into the summer we were slightly behind. We had not quite a 1 percent increase.”
Huddleston said students planning to attend any of the various sessions this summer should be aware of the final dates to register: the first day of class for that session. A $100 late fee will apply on those dates.
Summer session registration deadlines will include May 15 for Sessions I, V and VIII; June 5 for Sessions II and III; July 10 for Session IV; July 3 for Session VI and June 5 for Session O-RODP (Regents Online Degree Program).
Students should consult the “Summer 2006 Class Schedule” book for deadlines, important dates and other key information.

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