To be a Gator in ’68

[Gator88NE]

Interesting article.

It’s the year 1968 and your parents are driving you to Gainesville in their beat-up but sturdy station wagon to drop you off for your first semester at the University of Florida. You hear your parents discussing the Vietnam War and the upcoming Democratic Convention, but your thoughts are elsewhere. You’re thinking about whether or not you’ll get along with your new roommate, how many times you’re going to get lost during the first week of classes and what your new life will be like in Gainesville. You hum along to The Beatles’ new song “Hey Jude” on the radio and look out the window to see a brick tower peeking over the trees, welcoming you to your new home.

http://news.ufl.edu/articles/2018/08/to-be-a-gator-in-68.php

While UF’s enrollment was only 19,848 in 1968, it was in the middle of an enrollment boom. It was 13,100 in 1960, but up to 31,133 in 1978. In 2017 enrollment was up to 55,862.

https://ir.aa.ufl.edu/uffacts/enrollment-1/

[gouf78]

But the undergraduate enrollment figure is still at 34K and has hung at that level for years.
UF has a lot of graduate students (12K) and on-line/off site students who are included in that tabulation.