Purdue today (we are pretending) released fall 2019 enrollment information to reporters. In preparation for a story you are to write, you decide to do some calculations to decide what would be interesting to include in a story. Do the calculations (you must turn these answers in). Based on those calculations and ANY OTHER OBSERVATIONS about the numbers, write a lead only for the story.
Find the following:
1.The percent change in total enrollment from fall 2018 to fall 2019. What is the percent change from 2014 to 2019 (last 5 years)?
2.What percent of Purdue’s population is undergraduates and what percent is graduate in fall 2019.
Information released by Purdue on overall enrollment:
3. What percentage of Purdue’s undergraduates are from Indiana? What percentage of Purdue’s graduate students are from Indiana?
COM252: Writing for the Mass Media 