Veritas, Vol. 19, No. 05, October 23, 1978

              Vol. 19 No. 5 October 23 1978
For Faculty, Staff and Friends of the University of Miami
University of Miami enrollment hit an all-time high with a total of 19,235 students enrolled for the fall semester as compared with 17,105 last fall — an increase of 2,130. Highest past enrollment was 18,241 in 1971.
Registrar George Smith said that while enrollment was up in all schools except the Graduate School, the largest increase was in the number of noncredit students enrolled in the School ol Continuing Studies for enrichment and professional development programs. These totalled 4,619, an increase of 1,741 over last fall’s 2,878.
The total enrollment of degreeseeking students is up three per cent, Registrar Smith said, as is the number of full-time equivalent (FTE) students. Enrollment in the undergraduate divisions is up Eve per cent; in the Schools of Law and Medicine, up one per cent; but in the Graduate School, enrollment is down five per cent — a national trend over the past few years and consistent with improved quality goals, according to Graduate School Dean Clarence G. Stuckwisch.
Undergraduates totalled 10,185, an increase of 505 over last year’s 9,680. Of these, 8,216 are full-time and 1,969 are part-time students.
Enrollment in the Graduate School decreased by 120, with 2,435 students as compared to 2,555 last fall. The Schools of Law and Medicine increased by 11 each, with 1,328 students in law and 624 in medicine.
New undergraduate freshmen increased by 226 with 2,059 enrolled as compared with 1,833 last fall. The anticipated number was 1,965. Transfer students also increased by 182 to 1,416 over last year’s 1,234. The anticipated number was 1,710. Total number of new students this year totalled 3,475, 408 above last fall’s 3,067, for a 13 per cent increase.
International student enrollment also increased by nearly 20 per cent with 750 students from 79 countries as compared with 627 from 68 countries last year and all but three states are represented.
Enrollment of degree-seeking students in the undergraduate divisions for the fall 1978 semester as compared with the 1977 fall term:
ne high:			1
	1978	1977	+ or -
Arts and Sciences Business	4444	4324	+120
Administration	2151	2017	+ 134
Continuing Studies Education & Allied	27	31	•4
Professions	992	988	+4
Engineering & Architecture	1233	1089	+ 144
Music	592	484	+108
Nursing	299	276	+23
UM students are awaiting an analysis of the figures which will determine whether there will be a rollback of the SI00 fall tuition increase, either in full or on a pro-rata basis for the spring semester.
Tuition was increased by $100 to $1,850 for the fall semester. Results of the analysis of revenue were expected Continued to page 7
Nobel laureate Singer named visiting professor of English
by Sharon Clark
Isaac Bashevis Singer, one of the foremost writers in America and recipient of the 1978 Nobel Prize in literature, will join the UM’s department of English as visiting professor during the spring semester of 1979.
In announcing his appointment, Dr. Clyde J. Wingfield, provost and executive vice president for academic affairs, said Mr. Singer will teach a fiction writing seminar for advanced undergraduate and graduate students.
Singer will also participate in two professional writing workshops that
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Improved computer capability to begin this month
During October, the University will implement the initial phase of a significant computer capability improvement for computer users at the University.
Philip Charest, coordinator of Computer Services, announced that the upgrade that will occur this month will not only improve computer operational performance, but will also provide,
may be taken on a non-credit or credit basis. They will be held Dec. 18-22 and March 5-9.
Dr. William Babula, chairman of the English department, said “Mr. Singer’s appointment is a tremendous addition to our growing program in creative writing. We have been negotiating with him since last spring when he spoke at the University and received an enthusiastic reception. He agreed to join the department of English last August.
“It is an exciting opportunity for students to work under him, and we are pleased he is so willing to share his time with them. The appointment will also give more strength to our program in Jewish-American literature and our graduate program in general.”
His appointment at the University is supported in part by contributions from The American Institute of Polish Culture and the Judaic Studies program at the University.
The author of numerous novels, short stories and works for children, Singer also writes regularly for the Jewish Daily Forward and New Yorker magazine.
His latest novels are Enemies, A Love Story (1972), and the just published Continued to page 7
through the installation of an Interdata Communications Concentrator, the ability to support an additional 64 online terminals, significantly improving resource availability to student and faculty computer users.
In the summer of 1979, the University will install a UNIVAC 1100/81 central processor, with a processing speed Continued to page 7
FACULTY SENATE MEETING 3 p.m., Oct. 23 Law School Auditorium Agenda
Minutes of Faculty Senate Meeting, Sept. 25, 1978
Dr. Norman Einspruch, dean, School of Engineering and Architecture
Allan Lubel, GSA — Freshman Dinner Program
#78017 — Report of Ad Hoc Faculty Senate Sabbatical Leave Program Committee
Report — Faculty Senate Budget Committee - Professor Douglas Duke, chairperson
#76021 — Ad Hoc Faculty Senate Tenure Study Committee Report presented by Ad Hoc Committee on Tenure Policy and Procedures (appointed per recommendation made at Faculty Senate meeting on April 24, 1978)