Ann Tremarello, director of admissions and records at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, talks about a poor employment picture attracting more students to return to the university, students having more time to take more credits and the student credit hours increasing more rapidly than their head count, UAF continuing to enjoy healthy increases in enrollment, 3,582 students signed up to attend in the fall of 1980, student credit hours at an all-time high at over 39,000 hours, increase in head count over the past five years and increase in student credit hours, full time students returning to the campus, more part-time students during the pipeline years, the departments with gains in enrollment, the School of Management, the Department of Economics, and Business of Administration, gains in education, the geosciences, physics, psychology, speech and mathematics, recent large gain in the School of Mineral Industry which can be attributed to the interest in the petroleum industry, national trends like the increased interest in business alert the UAF that they also will experience increases, UAF not always following the pattern, how Alaska doesn't follow the area of education trends, business, natural sciences and environmental sciences having increases regularly over the last few years, enrollment forecasting, big increases in transfer, returning students and returning graduate students, recruiting activities to attract upper division transfer students, lower division courses have always been nicely filled and an expected high spring enrollment.