Nunn wanted his students to form and govern their own ideal society, a project that he felt required their total attention: he limited enrollment to about twenty-five men, and, to discourage what he called "entangling alliances," restricted contact with the residents of Bishop, a town forty miles away.
Mr. Reeser said he expected enrollment to increase in coming years, growing beyond what he called "a good core of 1,000 to 2,000 students" as new courses that begin this fall complement the expected oil-driven boom around the Cline Shale.
He watched enrollment double, watched the university literally rise around him, and he decided that "some things were more important than trying to climb the ladder".
He limited enrollment to 25 men and restricted contact with the residents of Bishop, a town 40 miles away.
But Shamsul Haque, chairman of CUNY's University Student Senate, said he believed enrollment would have been even higher had tuition not increased.
At the New School's adult writing program, he estimated, enrollment has increased in the last five years to 1,000 students a semester from about 200.
He raised enrollment of underrepresented minorities, established private fund raising as a campus priority, and led a major reorganization of the biological sciences.
He says enrollment in ICE's culinary arts program was up 13% in the first quarter of 2009, despite the economic climate.
During that time, he grew enrollment and made Santa Monica College the No. 1 transfer school to the University of California.
It would have been even more gratifying had the class of 1940, to which he was admitted, but denied enrollment because he was "colored," been equally sensitive.
