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Record Enrollment at A-State: 14,074 students

KASU | By Johnathan Reaves

Published September 7, 2016 at 2:29 PM CDT

Officials at Arkansas State University report a record enrollment. 14,074 students are enrolled this fall, which is a 5% increase from last year. Engineering is also seeing an explosion in the numbers of students who are in that program. KASU's News Director Johnathan Reaves has this report. A full breakdown of the numbers can be found here.

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Johnathan Reaves

Johnathan Reaves is the News Director for KASU Public Radio. As part of an Air Force Family, he moved to Arkansas from Minot, North Dakota in 1986. He was first bitten by the radio bug after he graduated from Gosnell High School in 1992. While working on his undergraduate degree, he worked at KOSE, a small 1,000 watt AM commercial station in Osceola, Arkansas. Upon graduation from Arkansas State University in 1996 with a degree in Radio-Television Broadcast News, he decided that he wanted to stay in radio news. He moved to Stuttgart, Arkansas and worked for East Arkansas Broadcasters as news director and was there for 16 years.

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