Enrollment: on-campus total down 3.16 percent
Corryn Brock, News Editor
January 31, 2020
A full report of 10th-day enrollment numbers showed a 3.16 percent decrease in on-campus enrollment but a total 1.57 percent increase in students. The current on-campus head count is 4,475 students, down from 4,621 students in Spring 2019. Total enrollment is at 7,621 students this spring after...
10th-Day: Eastern sees spring-to-spring increase
Corryn Brock, News Editor
January 30, 2020
Tenth-day enrollment numbers revealed a total of 7,621 students enrolled in classes at Eastern, 181 more students than the Spring 2019 semester. Excluding high school, the students taking dual-credit courses enrollment is at 5,886. The total amount of high school students taking dual-credit course...
CUPB to hear enrollment, marketing updates
Analicia Haynes, Senior Reporter
October 31, 2019
Josh Norman, the associate vice president for enrollment management, will highlight Eastern’s marketing plan during the Council on University Planning and Budget meeting Friday. The meeting will be at 2 p.m. in Room 4440 at Booth Library. Norman said he will provide an overview of enrollment m...
Dual credit increases at Eastern
Analicia Haynes, Senior Reporter
October 6, 2019
Editor’s note: The News wanted to run this story as a sidebar to our initial story about the State of the University Address in Friday’s edition of The Daily Eastern News. In this story we explain the enrollment aspect of Eastern President David Glassman’s speech including what he said about enr...
Glassman addresses state of university, underlines successes, goals
Analicia Haynes, Senior Reporter
October 3, 2019
Eastern will have to continue regulating its expenses this fiscal year to maintain a balanced budget. However, for fiscal year 2020, Eastern will not be required to reduce spending from the previous fiscal year in order for revenues to match last year’s spending rate. Eastern President David Glassman ...
STAFF EDITORIAL: Eastern is in an upswing
Staff Editorial
October 3, 2019
It was not very long ago that Eastern found itself muddled in a state budget impasse that lasted 793 days from July 1 to Aug. 31, 2017. A rallying campaign to “Fund EIU” was sparked during that time, enrollment dipped, employees lost their jobs, rumors and whispers of closings touched the ears...
Total enrollment rises again at Eastern
Analicia Haynes, Senior Reporter
September 3, 2019
Eastern’s enrollment is up 3.7 percent total headcount from 7,526 in fall 2018 to 7,806 this fall. Total headcount includes full-time enrollment and part-time enrollment for undergraduates and graduates, and high school students taking dual credit courses. This year there are 1,191 full-time freshm...
Gatrell delivers enrollment report to Faculty Senate
JJ Bullock, Editor-in-Chief
September 3, 2019
Eastern Provost Jay Gatrell delivered Eastern’s tenth day enrollment numbers, conveying a message of overall positivity and growth, to the Faculty Senate Tuesday. Gatrell reported to the senate that overall head count, which includes high school dual credit students and online students, increased ...
Eastern’s application, MyEIU sites see user friendly updates
Analicia Haynes, Senior Reporter
June 27, 2019
Eastern revamped its application site and the MyEIU site, making both more user friendly and mobile friendly for prospective students. This new interface was launched over two weeks ago after two months of working out the final details. The project itself was five years in the making. MyEIU...
10th Day numbers delayed, expected on Thursday
Analicia Haynes, Editor-in-Chief
January 23, 2019
Tenth Day Enrollment numbers still have not been released because of an issue with being able to report the numbers. The numbers are expected to be released sometime Thursday. Josh Norman, the associate vice president for enrollment management, said in an email Wednesday that the reason for taking ...
Eastern looks to retention efforts following increase in enrollment
Analicia Haynes, Editor-in-Chief
September 5, 2018
With enrollment up by 7.1 percent, with a total head count of 7,526 students compared to last year’s number of 7,030, Eastern is taking steps to retain students in order to continue to grow enrollment after the release of Tenth Day Enrollment numbers. These steps include revamping the merit scholarship...
Freshmen numbers up 24.5 percent from last year, total headcount up 7 percent
Analicia Haynes, Editor-in-Chief
September 4, 2018
Editor’s note: An additional story will be published in Thursday’s edition of The Daily Eastern News that takes a closer look at the factors that went into the increase in enrollment, how the increase in enrollment has affected Housing and Dining and the current retention efforts the university is u...
