Abstract
Although the Office for Enrollment Policy and Educational Research at the University of Cincinnati predicts a 13.6 percent decline in part-time degree students at four-year schools in academic year 1976-77,1 the number of part-time students will remain approximately half of the full-time enrollments and will be of continuing significance to the health and wealth of higher education. The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) predicts a 4.5 percent overall increase in enrollments, however, and no matter what the actual percent of decrease in part-time enrollments in 1976-77, the fact remains that the total degree enrollments for part-time students in institutions of higher education has varied only from a slight half of the total in 1964 to over half in 1974 and is projected to continue until 1984 at over half to two thirds of the total.2 Their numbers are such that they should not be ignored. What is this phenomenon-the part-time student-and what does it mean for higher education in the United States?
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