Co-op College History - Centre for the Study of Co-operatives

A PPENDIX IV
E NROLMENT P ATTERNS AT THE
W ESTERN C O-OPERATIVE C OLLEGE, 1960–1970
Editor’s Notes by Nora Russell
Figure 1: * Analysis of enrolment in college courses by people sponsored by Federated
Co-operatives Limited.
1200
Number of students
1000
800
600
400
200
Retail (employees)
Retail (elected officials)
Wholesale (employees)
Wholesale (elected
officials)
Total number of
participants
0
1960-61
1960-61
1961-62
1961-62
1962-63
1962-63
1963-64
1963-64
1964-65
1964-65
1965-66
1965-66
Year
1966-67
1966-67
1967-68
1967-68
1968-69
1968-69
1969-70
1969-70
1. Consists of courses conducted at the college and on an extension basis by college staff.
2. Includes a forecast of enrolment for 1969–70.
* Source: The graphs in this appendix can be found in unpublished internal documents in the Cooperative
College of Canada library holdings, now housed at the Canadian Co-operative Association
in Ottawa. The series included nineteen graphs, of which five are reproduced here. The others are
analyzed in the accompanying text. Since the original data from which the graphs were constructed
was unavailable, numbers are not exact.
Editor’s Note: Please note that values along the Y axes in the graphs on this and the following pages
are not consistent, so visual comparisons alone are not an adequate measure of enrolment figures.
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