COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho — Enrollment is going up, an interim president's contract won't be renewed and legal issues are ongoing at North Idaho College.
President Nick Swayne touted NIC’s enrollment numbers Wednesday night, during the board's monthly meeting.
The number of first-time, degree-seeking students has increased 19.2% over last spring, and declining enrollment for continuing transfer students has slowed to just 1.1%. For the past decade, continuing transfer students have typically decreased between 3% and 6% each year.
“There’s still eight and 12-week courses students can register for, so we may break even on continuing transfer students,” Swayne said.
Dual credit enrollment is down compared to last year, but Swayne noted the first big push into local high schools was meant to begin Jan. 17 and was delayed by the snowstorm, which closed schools.
“We hope to bump our enrollment on dual enrollment,” he said. “If we’re successful on that, we could, for the first time in 10 years, have flat or improved enrollment from spring to spring, year over year. That would be a huge turnaround in the program.”
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