The number of students enrolled at Seward County Community College/Area Technical School fell by 5.59 percent for fall of 2013, following a trend across Kansas that shows a 1.33 percent decrease in student enrollment. Although SCCC/ATS has 110 fewer students, down to 1,861 from 1,971 in fall of 2012, Dean of Students Celeste Donovan said she didn’t think that anyone has felt the difference. Donovan stated that over the past five years there has been a steady (2-5 percent) increase in enrollment, but this year enrollment has been down. “It’s a national trend,” she said. Seward has 707 full-time students, and they are taking an average of 16.8 credits. The 1,154 part-time students are taking an average of 5.6 credit hours. Continuing with this trend, online enrollment has also decreased. EduKan students are taking 930 credit hours and Seward Online students are taking 489 credit hours, compared to the 944 and 752 of last year, respectively. The full time equivalency for this fall is 1,225, compared to the 1,287 of the fall of 2012. Concurrent high school students number 503, compared to the 222 of fall of 2012– giving SCCC/ATS, a 127 percent increase in high school concurrent enrollment. “A large number of high school concurrent students are in the tech school,” Donovan said. She also said that the college has developed several Career Technical Education programs. Demographics show a 10 percent increase in the number of Hispanics enrolled compared to fall of 2012, while there has been an 8 percent decrease in the number of Caucasians enrolled. For fall of 2013, gender demographics show 59 percent female and 41 percent male. For more enrollment information on Kansas universities, community colleges and technical schools, visit kansasregents.org/news_media.