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Dear Sun Devil Advocate,

The legislature adjourned in June and it has been a relatively quiet summer on the legislative front. Our last newsletter to you highlighted the key legislative accomplishments for Arizona State University.

However, if you’d like a more in-depth look at this year’s legislative achievements, we have posted the 2006 Legislative Report on our Sun Devil Advocate website — it can be accessed by clicking on the link below:

www.sundeviladvocates.org

We hope you’ll take the opportunity to peruse the legislative report — and we want to thank you again for all your advocacy work on behalf of ASU. Thank you to all of you who either emailed your legislators after we sent out an email action alert or volunteered at ASU Day at the Capitol or recruited more members to our Sun Devil Advocate Network.

Do you realize in two years we have gone from 298 advocates to 1,364 today! The bigger our advocacy army the better we will do at the legislature! So please keep sending your co-workers, friends, relatives and alums to our website at www.sundeviladvocates.org and have them register just as you did to become a member of the Sun Devil Advocate Network!

Well it may have been quiet down at 1700 W. Washington this summer, but it hasn’t been at Arizona State University! I thought you would be interested to see the latest statistics regarding this year’s enrollment numbers. Check out these numbers!

Enrollment increased by 4% from last year — to 63,278 from 61,033

Incredibly, ASU's enrollment has grown by nearly 8,000 students in four years!

There are 51,234 students on the Tempe campus

6,545 on the Polytechnic campus — up from 4,865 last year

ASU West grew by 6% from 7,734 to 8,211

ASU has the largest freshman class of any public university in the nation — exceeding 9,000 students.

A record 186 freshmen National Merit Scholars had registered for classes by mid-August with 64 being from Arizona.

Last year, ASU had 155 National Merit Scholars, the third most of any public university in the nation and 13th overall.

92 National Hispanic Scholars had registered for classes by mid-August, 20 more than last year. This is a 300% increase in five years!

Almost a third of Arizona resident freshmen are minority students and 28% of the freshman class is composed of minority students. That’s an 11.4% increase from last year and a whopping 164% increase in 10 years!

Well, there you have it! These are just some of the numbers that have been recently released that we wanted to share with you. It tells me we must be doing something really right as a university to see the quantity and quality of our student body.

As a proud alumnus, I love to share these numbers with my friends and neighbors (especially my U of A friends) and I hope you’ll do the same!

Once again, I want to thank all of you for your continued advocacy efforts. You truly do play an important role in our legislative success!

Go Devils!

Jeffrey Grant
Director, Programs and Advocacy
ASU Alumni Association

P.S. If you want to become an active member of the ASU Alumni Association, one of the best ways you can give back is through membership in the ASU Alumni Association. The annual dues of $45 offer an affordable way to help build ASU’s reputation. Visit www.asu.edu/alumni/membership or call 1-800-ALUMNUS.

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