By Mary Jo Frank
Academic reputation, surroundings, value for the price, academic facilities, majors they are interested in studying and cost of attendance are reasons Michigan residents admitted to LS&A give for enrolling at the U-M.
Non-residents offer a similar list, but add to the U-M’s “pluses”: quality of social life, recreational facilities and extracurricular opportunities.
Despite this good news, the Univer-sity is experiencing a decline in yield rates among top scholars, an issue of serious concern to University administrators.
Sharing the 1993 Survey of Fall Admits results at the Nov. 1 LS&A faculty meeting, Undergraduate Admissions Director Theodore Spencer said that both students who enroll and students who choose other schools rank the U-M lower than its competition when it comes to “faculty commitment to teaching.” Other reasons for not enrolling given by Michigan residents: lack of personal attention, value for the price, cost of attendance and majors of interest.
The perception that faculty are not as committed to teaching as students would like comes up frequently, said LS&A Dean Edie N. Goldenberg, who added that even when students have personally worked with a professor, they feel that they are an exception.
“I think faculty are highly committed to teaching,” added Goldenberg, who thinks comments about lack of faculty commitment and personal attention reflect students’ reactions to too many
