Abstract:
University enrollments throughout the country have been increasing for more than two decades. Undergraduate enrollment at the University of Georgia has followed the national trend (5). During the same period, agricultural colleges have generally experienced declining enrollments, but by 1965, the Commission on Education in Agriculture and Natural Resources reported that undergraduate enrollment in agriculture, nationwide, was increasing (2). Even with increasing enrollments, agricultural colleges are accounting for a smaller proportion of the total undergraduate population (2). Certain factors have been reported as contributing to this declining agricultural enrollment. These include 1) the poor image of agriculture in the minds of the general public, 2) the attraction to young people of the more glamorous basic sciences and professions, 3) poor teaching, 4) lack of interest by faculty in undergraduate students, and 5) failure by administration to emphasize and support student recruitment programs (1,3,4). Departments of horticulture, traditionally a part of and administered by colleges of agriculture, have experienced essentially the same enrollment problems.
Keywords:
undergraduate enrollment, increasing enrollments
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