So basically a major jump began after the world was exposed to Georges Niang. Makes sense.
and when we moved to Ames!
So basically a major jump began after the world was exposed to Georges Niang. Makes sense.
I don’t think Iowa State really wants to be in the expanding dorm business.
So basically a major jump began after the world was exposed to Georges Niang. Makes sense.
Did a quick search online and this is what I've found so far these are fall numbers for these years
2017 36,321
2016 36,660
2015 36,001
2014 34,732
2013 33,241
2012 31,040
2011 29,887
2010 28,682
2009 27,945
2008 26,856
2007 26,160
2006 25,462
2005 25,741
2004 26,380
2003 26,280
2002 27,898
6k increase just in the 4 years I was there, 2010-2014.Wow, a 10k enrollment gain since I graduated. Campus has got to be packed.
Me too. I need to take a trip over someday when classes are in to see what it's like.Wow, a 10k enrollment gain since I graduated. Campus has got to be packed.
One of my professors (who used to work in the President's Office for Martin Jischke) told me an interesting story about the expansion of ISU back in the day...
In the 1960s and early 1970s, ISU's enrollment was growing very quickly. I do not have any data to back this up, but with the expanding demographics of the U.S. (the Baby Boomers, first born in 1946 and 1947, were hitting college age), various GI bills bringing a lot of new money and veterans into the system, same for federal research dollars, and the increased "drift" towards college as a ticket to the professional class, it is not hard to imagine.
ISU was looking at rapidly-escalating enrollment throughout the 1960s, and they thought they would run out of space on the main campus north of Lincoln way and south of the railroad tracks. This was also before the ISU Center and before so many more students lived in off-campus housing, so you had to account for a lot more housing *and* athletics facilities being packed into the same space. They knew they had to expand campus.
Some of this eventually happened in other forms (e.g., the closure of Clyde Williams, JTS, the opening of Frederickson Court, etc.) but, at the time, their big plan was...
...a satellite campus!
Here it is in its modern form...
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They bought up a bunch of agricultural land south of Campustown with the idea of eventually developing the space as a secondary campus. The four towers and their associated community center were intended as the centerpiece of this new campus, and they thought they would move one of the more "self-contained" colleges -- likely the College of Engineering and/or the scientific portions of what we now call LAS -- out there into new spaces.
The idea was to have some mass transit between the two beyond even buses, for freshmen to start at the main campus before engineering undergraduates and graduate students moved out to South Campus, and for the growth in other colleges to eventually start to absorb the old engineering buildings (sort of how LAS eventually absorbed Marston Hall for languages and culture and a few other things, if I remember correctly).
In the meantime, having nothing else to do with the space, they made a cross country course and some nominally temporary athletics facilities. These were nonessential luxuries that they could plow under later for no cost when they needed more square feet.
Then... ISU stopped growing. The college boom subsided. The wave of new students in the 1960s and 1970s petered out, more and more students started living off-campus (freeing up the campus space for instructional and research edifices, rather than residencies), and the ISU Center happened, which freed up further space. The satellite campus has eventually became auxiliary space for renovations and essentially permanent athletics facilities.
This corroborates a story my dad told me when he was in school in the 70s. He had an old Iowa State Daily that showed the "vision" when I was cleaning out his desk once he passed away. I'll have to remember to dig it out again next time I go back to that house.