SAN MARCOS, TX - President Denise M. Trauth announced that fall 2014 enrollment for Texas State has exceeded 36,700 students, making the university the fourth-largest in the state.
In President Trauth's letter, she said the preliminary enrollment figure has increased by 3.5 percent compared to last year. Not only does Trauth believe supplementary growth will propose bigger space challenges, but these prospective students chose this university as their top destination.
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| Hailee Anderson Photographed by Jasmine Davis |
As a result, Anderson said, "I'm in bigger classes especially in the Teaching Theater. It's difficult to have good class discussions with such big classes."
Additionally, the rise of the student population has affected access to classes. For 21-year-old psychology student Amanda Garcia, there is difficulty due to development of infrastructure.
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| Amanda Garcia Photographed by Marco Lozano |
"There is so much construction everywhere and so many apartment complexes have gone up within the last year. It will take some time to get used to the amount of rapid change," said Garcia.
Business major and senior Luke Garza is also afflicted with enrollment growth.
"It is much harder to make it to class on time especially because of how crowed all of the busses are," said Garza.
"It is much harder to make it to class on time especially because of how crowed all of the busses are," said Garza.
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| Josiah Reese Photographed by Elysia Cowle |
Nevertheless, an increase in admissions could correlate with an increase in diversity as told by senior and environmentalist Josiah Reese. When asked about how he felt about an increase in diversity, Josiah said, "Diversity is always a good thing. It's a wealth of information, knowledge and perspective that comes from all sorts of different backgrounds."
According to political science major Malli Banitt, "It would bring in more money for the university" if Texas State were to continue to grow, but at the same time population growth is parallel to producing more available resources.
After receiving a considerable amount of funding, Texas State obtains the resources to broaden and comply with the needs of expansion like remodeling the Comal building and funding research. With Texas State possibly being the fourth-largest in the state, the university should comply with the students' needs in regards to improving the number of faculty to produce more intimate classes, easy detours to-and-from classes and transportation.
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