Iowa Community Colleges Fall Term 1999 Credit Student Enrollment Report.

This report provides student enrollment data for Iowa community colleges for fall 1999. Highlights include: (1) community college fall credit enrollment continued to grow, with approximately 59 percent pursuing college parallel program majors; (2) fall term enrollments have grown 29 percent from 49,351 in 1989 to 63,809 in 1999; (3) college parallel program enrollments have grown 51 percent from 24,716 in 1989 to 37,398 in 1999; (4) vocational enrollments have grown 10 percent from 20,298 to 22,355 over the same time period, and career option (programs that prepare students either to enter a vocation or to transfer to a four-year institution), declined 7 percent from 4,337 to 4,052; (5) community college enrollments represent the ethnicity of the citizens of the state as a whole, surpassing in all minority categories their proportional share of the total state population; (6) while 1.71 percent of Iowa's 1990 population is black, 2.69 percent of the fall 1999 community college enrollment reporting ethnicity was black; (7) more than 56 percent of enrollment was female; and (8) approximately 58 percent of community college students were enrolled in arts and science programs. (JA)

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