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(18-21) was enrolled in college for degree programs. This contrasts sharply with the national average of 42%.

"(4) High school enrollments increased by 18, 000 a year ago. This fall the increase was over 20,000. Dr. Carroll tells me that this rate of increase will continue for the next 5-7 years. It is interesting to note that even the highest estimate of total public and private college enrollment for 1962 made by the Commission was exceeded this fall. 80,804 students are enrolled in institutions of higher education in North Carolina.

"College enrollments in North Carolina have followed national trends in recent years. From 32,000 in all institutions in 1940 to 45,000 in 1950, 68,000 in I960, and 75,000 in the fall of last year. A 50% increase has occurred in the last six years.

"Thus reckoning with all these figures, survival trends and economic conditions, Dr. Hamilton's projections - and I use his mean series - show that college enrollments will probably be as follows

		(mean series)
1965	93,300	96,000
1970	109,700	117.000
1975	124,100	139,000

"These projections indicate that by the end of this decade, from at least 109,000 to 117,000 people will be seeking entry (they will not be in college) into the public and private colleges of North Carolina, an increase of 46 to 67% over the enrollments of a year ago.

"Having the reliable evidence at hand, the Commission next consulted the private institutions in North Carolina to determine how much of this projected increase they were planning to accommodate. Their replies indicate an expansion by 1970 to accommodate 11,250 additional students, which means that public institutions must be prepared to accept about 60% of the college students in North Carolina by 1970. Some 30,000 more students will then be seeking post-high school opportunity.

"The Commission faced this issue: What recommendations should be made to provide post-high school opportunity at the lowest cost to the student and the taxpayer for the greatest number of children, while seeking, always, the highest quality of program?

"After much study and the use of consultants, three recommendations have emerged which I believe are the really important and