Ariz. colleges preparing for jumps in enrollments.PHOENIX (AP) -- Community college officials say they're seeing an increase in students amid rising costs at state universities. Spring enrollment in the Maricopa Community College District jumped nearly 5 percent to 250,000 students. Students registered even before the state's universities imposed tuition surcharges ranging from $350 at Northern Arizona University Northern Arizona University (NAU) is a public university in Flagstaff, Arizona in the United States. As of Fall 2007, the university has 21,352 students, 13,989 of these are situated in the main Flagstaff campus<ref name="Enrollment" />. to $766 at the University of Arizona (body, education) University of Arizona - The University was founded in 1885 as a Land Grant institution with a three-fold mission of teaching, research and public service. . "We are expecting a major increase in the fall as the universities price people out," said Barry Vaughan, president of the Maricopa Community College District's faculty association. He said the new charges are a significant increase for freshmen. "You know there will be a percentage of students who were barely affording it before," he said. Growth at the 10 campuses that make up the Maricopa Community College District ranged from 0.3 percent at Phoenix College to more than 16 percent at the online Rio Salado campus. "I came here because it's cheaper than the universities," said 18-year-old Sheryl Williams, a student at Paradise Valley Community College Despite its name, it is located many miles from the actual town of Paradise Valley, Arizona, which is adjacent to Phoenix but independent from it. The neighborhood in northeast Phoenix containing PVCC is also called Paradise Valley, home to Paradise Valley Community Center, . "It's too high at ASU." A lot of enrollment statistics have to do with a boom or bust economy, said Debra Thompson, vice chancellor of the district. |
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