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Maintaining enrollments in physics with declining university enrollments

Thomas Baldwin

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The general education program in the Department of Physics at Southern Illinois University (Edwardsville) is described in considerable detail. Enrollments in courses and student credit hour production have been maintained in spite of an overall decline in university enrollments. The paper concludes by discussing the implications of general education courses for staffing in physics departments.

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Key concepts: Staffing, Physics, Physics education, Higher education, Mathematics education, General education, Engineering physics, Economic growth