DeKALB | NIU officials said the spring 2007 10th-day enrollment count shows an increase of about 300 students compared to last spring’s count.

Brent Gage, assistant vice provost of Enrollment Services, said the spring 10th-day enrollment numbers surpassed the numbers predicted by the university.

“Compared to last spring, there was a nice increase in total enrollment,” Gage said.

Transfer students unexpectedly accounted for more than 125 additional transfer students than last spring, he said.

The spring 10th-day enrollment numbers are different from the fall numbers because they are not officially released to the public and are typically the smaller of the two according to NIU officials.

The records in the NIU Data Book use the fall numbers from different years to compare enrollment.

NIU listed the fall semester’s 10th-day enrollment at 25,313 students, the university’s highest enrollment level since 1987.

Kelly Wesener, executive director for Housing and Dining, said no complications or problems have resulted with student housing or the dining halls due to the increased enrollment.

“Our residence hall system is designed to be able to absorb increases and decreases in enrollment,” Wesener said.

“Many departments across the campus work as a team to recruit students. With this team work, we are able to anticipate the number of incoming students and adjust as needed.”

Having more students creates more records, said Sheri Kallembach, acting director of the Office of Registration and Records.

The office has begun implementing a document-imaging system due to space issues. It has also taken advantage of a document-imaging system that helps in sharing documents with appropriate offices over campus, she said.

“It has resulted in quicker responses to students, recouping the space that was taken up by file cabinets and has allowed us to facilitate the immediate exchange of information to authenticated users,” Kallembach said.

“Right now, we’ve got so much positive energy,” Gage said. “We want to roll with this momentum to attract large numbers of great students.”