In the first week of registration at Lake Tahoe Community College, enrollment is up 31.4 percent for full-time students over this time last year. Part-time admissions is only up 0.4 percent.

Lousy economies tend to send people back to the classroom. But this is happening when the cost of each unit went from up $3 to $17/per unit this fall.

With classes not starting until Sept. 22, enrollment could spiral even higher. This comes off a record year for enrollment in 2008-09.

Another change this fall is the minimum class size. It went from eight to 10 students for academic classes, and from eight to 12 for phys ed-wilderness studies.