This Fall's Enrollment

Although earlier predictions have indicated a probable decrease in fall college enrollment of fifteen or twenty percent, a more optimistic view of the situation is taken by the United States Office of Education, according to Rall I. Grigsby, its deputy commissioner, who has reported an estimated drop of something less than eight percent under last year's figures. Dr. Grigsby, in addressing the eighty‐ninth annual convention of the National Education Association held in San Francisco during early July, pointed out that the draft law has at least temporarily stabilized the status of college students and that most freshmen will be able to enter college and complete one year or more before becoming eligible for military service. Of considerably greater concern, he said, is the expectation that approximately twenty thousand college faculty members will either be dismissed or take leaves of absence this year. The loss of instructors would thus be about fifteen percent as compared with last fall's figures.