| Summary: | In January 1989 Simon Fraser University opened a satellite
campus in the City of Vancouver. This campus at Harbour Centre was
designed and located, in large part, to attract adult students wishing
to pursue university studies on a part-time basis.
While it was expected that this new campus would attract a
different student than those at the main campus in Burnaby, there
had been no work to determine whether there were real differences.
In the Fall of 1992 a profile of all registered students was obtained
from the SFU student database. Records for 17,205 individuals were
examined and students studying at the two campuses were then
compared.
The results of the study indicated that the students at the two
campuses were substantially different. Specifically the Harbour
Centre students were older, disproportionately female, more likely
to study part-time and had more education upon admission than the
students at the Burnaby campus.
This study concludes that, as intended, Simon Fraser
University at Harbour Centre is successfully providing educational
services to the advanced recurrent learner. However, due to
restrictive enrollment practices new recurrent learners are being
denied access to the university. Should these practices continue it is
probable that the Harbour Centre campus will cease to be as
distinctive as it is. The profile of the Harbour Centre campus
undergraduate student may eventually come to resemble that of the
Burnaby campus student.
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