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Title:	The Granite State
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Created:	Fri Sep 26 1986
Last Modified:	Thu Jun 05 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	3666
Total number of notes:	56511

3660.0. "Baby Boomers in NH" by APACHE::KEITH (Dr. Deuce) Mon Apr 28 1997 15:10

Census: N.H. has second highest share of baby boomers in the country
                        
Associated Press, 04/28/97 02:31
                        
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) - About a third of New Hampshire's residents are baby
boomers, the second highest share in the country, a statistic that has
ramifications for the state's aging population, and its young.
                        
The figures show New Hampshire's population in 1996 was 1.16 million, with
about 33 percent from the generation born between the end of World War II and
the early 1960s.
                        
Only Alaska has a higher percentage.
                        
The figure means social and medical services will be in greater demand as
boomers age, and schools will feel the pinch as their children move though
school and into college.
                        
The boomers' children are called the ``echo generation.''
                        
A study by the University of New Hampshire showed schools now are handling the
boomers' children, and the wave will swell college enrollments in the next few
years.
                        
Births in New Hampshire rose 60 percent during a 14-year period, from a low of
11,101 in 1975 to 17,801 in 1989. Projections are that high school graduates
will increase by 33 percent from 1996 to 2007.
                        
The UNH study suggested the school should begin preparing now for an onslaught.
                        
``Failure to prepare for an increase in demand could lead to overuse of
facilities, high student-to-faculty ratios and inadequate housing,'' the study
concluded.
                        
Meanwhile, the Office of State Planning estimated New Hampshire's population
will grow by about 14,000 a year from the years 2000 to 2020. The office also
said the state has recovered from the late 1980s, when the dramatic downturn in
the high-tech industry caused many people to move away.

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3660.1 An "onslaught" of students is what UNH doesn't need NETCAD::MORRISON Bob M. LKG2-A/R5 226-7570 Mon Apr 28 1997 20:05 10

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3660.1	An "onslaught" of students is what UNH doesn't need	NETCAD::MORRISON	Bob M. LKG2-A/R5 226-7570	`Mon Apr 28 1997 20:05`	10
	>The UNH study suggested the school should begin preparing now for an onslaught. A massive expansion at UNH is not necessarily a good idea. The campus has run out of room to grow, and the local roads can't handle the extra traffic. Instead of massive expansion at UNH, the state should build up its other state colleges (Keene and Plymouth) and convert the Merrimack Valley Branch into a full-fledged college with dorms and athletics. This would not only take some of the strain off of UNH, but also make a state college education an option for thousands of students who can't afford to live in dorms or apartments and are too far from UNH to commute.

>The UNH study suggested the school should begin preparing now for an onslaught.

  A massive expansion at UNH is not necessarily a good idea. The campus has
run out of room to grow, and the local roads can't handle the extra traffic.
Instead of massive expansion at UNH, the state should build up its other
state colleges (Keene and Plymouth) and convert the Merrimack Valley Branch
into a full-fledged college with dorms and athletics. This would not only
take some of the strain off of UNH, but also make a state college education
an option for thousands of students who can't afford to live in dorms or
apartments and are too far from UNH to commute.