Proceedings of the Board of Regents (1963-1966)

OCTOBER MEETING, 1964

573

President said most schools in the state had missed their anticipated
enrollment figures by much more than the University had. With a
very large number of continuing students and with the freshman pressure, together with an appraisal of the University's capacity, that is,
space for housing students and for staff, the administration had arrived
at a new figure which it believed represents a reasonable balance between the great need for educational opportunities and the University's
resources. The figure which the University believed a realistic one and
an administrable one for next fall is 30,900 students. The Vice-President believed that with tight supervision this number of students
could be accommodated. That figure he proposed should be the one to
send to Lansing as the University's projected enrollment for next fall.
The figure, he said, showed an actual increase for the total University
of about 1,800 students. Of these, 889 would be new students; 1,259
would be continuing. The Vice-President added that late applicants
would be advised and urged to enroll in January.
The Vice-President said that this rate of growth was consistent with
the presentation he had made in July, when he reviewed the future
growth of the University. At that time he had suggested that in
Ann Arbor the University would grow by about 1,500 to 1,600 students
a year, granted that adequate resources could be got. He had projected
such an annual increase from the fall of 1964 to the fall of 1975.
The Vice-President in charge of business and finance reviewed the
possibility of housing the increased number of students the VicePresident for Academic Affairs had just described. The Vice-President
in charge of business and finance said, "The housing one expects to fill
in 1968 must be planned in 1964." The Vice-President said that student housing in Ann Arbor could be divided into three categoriesUniversity housing, housing provided by fraternities and sororities,
and private housing. In reviewing the housing which the University
was expecting to build, the Vice-President said no new housing could
be added in 1965. He then reviewed the housing which the University
expected to provide for students in the next four years. Hopefully the
University would be able to provide 3,600 new student spaces by the
fall of 1968. The Vice-President said Cedar Bend Houses would
consist of five buildings housing 120 students each; Cedar Bend
Houses Unit II would also comprise five buildings housing 120 students
each; Bursley Hall, comprising eight buildings, would house 600 men
and 600 women students. The Cedar Bend Houses, the Vice-President
said, would offer no food facilities except automated ones; the students
in those units would be expected to take their meals at the North
Campus Center. Students living in Bursley Hall would take their meals
at one of the buildings in the group, such a building would house, in
addition to dining facilities, library, laundry, and other facilities.
On recommendation of the Vice-President in charge of business and
finance, the Regents adopted the following resolutions approving application to the Housing and Home Finance Agency for loans for construction of Cedar Bend Houses and for Project II of Cedar Bend
Houses:
Resolved, That the Vice-President in charge of business and finance be
authorized to make application to the Housing and Home Finance Agency,

Student Housing:
Reviewed
Cedar Bend
Houses:
Financing of