Barbara Schneider, the admissions director, said freshman enrollment is 5,170 this fall, compared with a projected 5,300.

Florida, which had also agreed to increase black freshman enrollment, did achieve a rise, from 1,323 to 1,715, between 1982 and the spring of 1985.

Through increased recruiting, the university was able to maintain freshman enrollment for the academic year that ended in June while being more selective.

By freezing freshman enrollments they are taking the easy way out.

By the start of the school year in 1933, St. Mary's enjoyed it largest freshman enrollment to date.

He also repeated earlier findings that freshman enrollment at some four-year colleges had increased by more than 20 percent.

They cited a 5 percent increase in freshman enrollment this fall, the first such increase in five years.

In fact, Queens's freshman enrollment fell sharply after the first year of the new standards, though the numbers have since started to creep back.

By last week, however, freshman enrollment at the community colleges was up only 1 percent.

Sadoway's animated teaching style was popular with students and freshman enrollment in the course steadily increased through 2010.