Chesapeake College Nearing Fall Enrollment Record

WYE MILLS, MD - A five-week enrollment surge at Chesapeake College has the college in position to set a fall semester enrollment record for the sixth straight year.

According to Chesapeake College, as of Tuesday, Chesapeake College began the day with 2,471 students registered for the 2011 fall semester, which is a 1.7 percent increase compared to the same point last year when 2,431 students were enrolled.

Chesapeake College remained about 3 percent below last fall's enrollment pace on June 13 before the five-week surge. Between June 13 and 18, 747 students enrolled at the college, a 15.3 percent increase over the same period in 2010.

"We've registered an incredible number of students over the last five weeks," said Kathy Petrichenko, Chesapeake College dean for recruitment services. "The fall enrollment period actually began rather slowly, but enrollment started picking up in mid-June and hasn't slowed since."

Petrichenko said a survey disseminated in July to Spring 2011 students, who had not yet registered for fall 2011, showed students were registering later than in previous years.

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