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College enrollment: Why are colleges struggling to get new students?
FingerLakes1 ^ | 4/5/22 | Staff Report

Posted on 04/07/2022 12:52:19 PM PDT by DallasBiff

Hundreds of two- and four-year colleges saw major student enrollment declines between 2020 and 2022.

Enrollment in traditional undergraduate programs has been trending downward since around 2012.

Ryan Lufkin, Senior Director for Instracture Canvas, says the pandemic turbocharged those enrollment losses. As result, higher education has been searching for a way to serve non-traditional students

(Excerpt) Read more at fingerlakes1.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: collegeenrollment; education; h1b
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To: DallasBiff

If they had any business acumen, which they don’t, they would realize the demand for brainwashed neophyte communist employees with no critical thing skills has all but disappeared.


61 posted on 04/07/2022 4:58:17 PM PDT by Neverlift (When someone says "you just can't make this stuff up" odds are good, somebody did.)
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To: mowowie

“get more asians”

No.


62 posted on 04/07/2022 5:06:04 PM PDT by dljordan
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To: TonyinLA

What college?


63 posted on 04/07/2022 6:37:35 PM PDT by Maine Mariner
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To: DallasBiff

Too expensive. ROI is too low.


64 posted on 04/07/2022 7:48:18 PM PDT by ModelBreaker
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To: 2banana

The days of them favoring foreign students is over, so is their anti white racism.


65 posted on 04/07/2022 10:33:24 PM PDT by Herakles (Diversity is applied Marxism les)
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To: DallasBiff
Simple. The cost is too high for the benefit of a degree. I seen top orthopedic surgeons that carry 350,000 of debt which means they can't buy houses, have families, etc.
66 posted on 04/07/2022 10:45:25 PM PDT by Metrobank
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To: DallasBiff

Thank you, God.


67 posted on 04/07/2022 10:50:11 PM PDT by Maris Crane
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To: DallasBiff

White men are saying screw it to higher education. Instead they are going into trades or the military. They are at a disadvantage anyway so now reason for them to put up with the BS unless they are going to be a doctor or an engineer.


68 posted on 04/07/2022 10:52:58 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: redgolum

The name “Chico State” just sounds goofy I know. I was telling my coworker in Maine that my son attends Chico State and he said it just would be so cool somehow to have a sweatshirt that says “Chico State. . .” :)

Well, what can you do. We can’t all go to Harvard. . .:)


69 posted on 04/07/2022 11:01:18 PM PDT by olivia3boys
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To: Political Junkie Too

Well written comments on the issue.

As a Mgr. (with an MBA) at a major defense contractor, I experienced applicants sent to me by jerks in HR to interview. The worst were MBAs from Stanford and Harvard.

The job openings didn’t require an MBA. Their schools had oversold the salaries they could demand and get with those degrees. Their asking salaries were typically 25-50% higher than our Mgrs’ and Director’s. Plus, they had no experience or skills specified for the open jobs.

HR personnel must get points for arranging interviews and wasting the time if interviewers.


70 posted on 04/07/2022 11:54:32 PM PDT by octex
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To: DallasBiff
Hundreds of two- and four-year colleges saw major student enrollment declines between 2020 and 2022.

Can anyone connect the dots? In this time period, college students were treated like social pariahs at many colleges and universities. Show up, get tested, mask up, get sent to quarantine for 2 weeks; stay in your 1-person room and attend classes on your computer; have virtual academic advisor meetings; get "al fresco" dining options and eat outside, or take back to your dorm room. All of this, and STILL pay full tuition & fees.

I know many parents with college-bound children during this time period, and many of them checked out or stayed home. Why pay full price for a sub-par experience?

71 posted on 04/08/2022 6:08:17 AM PDT by Lou L (Health "insurance" is NOT the same as health "care")
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To: olivia3boys

I went to Iowa State.

So everyone outside the Midwest assumes we grow potatoes (Idaho) and are the buckeyes (Ohio).

Also had a man with advanced degrees ask me if the surfing in Iowa was good.

Yeah...


72 posted on 04/08/2022 6:32:26 AM PDT by redgolum (If this is civilization, I will be the barbarian. )
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To: octex

A company I worked for had a policy of NOT hiring people from the Ivies and other elite schools. To much hassle for to little work.


73 posted on 04/08/2022 6:33:26 AM PDT by redgolum (If this is civilization, I will be the barbarian. )
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