Posted on 09/14/2022 4:16:32 PM PDT by DoodleBob
With a national debate on the value of a college education smoldering, heads of postsecondary institutions in New Jersey are seeking to buck the national trend of declining enrollments.
The pandemic and its widespread effects helped bring college enrollment to its lowest levels in about 15 years in 2020, according to U.S. Census Bureau data. Those declines continued into 2022, according to researchers at the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center.
This spring, center researchers estimated that 662,000 fewer students were enrolled in U.S. collegiate undergraduate programs when compared with spring 2021. The year-over-year drop of about 4.7% piggybacked on a 3.5% decrease seen the prior spring.
The result was a 7.4% overall decline, almost 1.3 million students, from spring 2020 to spring 2022.
Anthony Iacono, the County College of Morris president, said employers are asking school officials for recruits in health care, law enforcement and tech fields. However, Iacono is not sure where to find the students they need.
"Our question is where the heck is everybody?" he said. "They don’t want to go to work. They do not want to go to college. They don’t want to go to the service. Where are they going?"
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As traditional postsecondary education has suffered continued declines, trade education at two-year schools saw considerable growth from spring 2021 to spring 2022, according to National Student Clearinghouse Research Center records.
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I wonder if the drop is due to the lack of Chinese students?
Because New Jersey is probably the biggest POS corrupt state in the USA.
“Where are they going”?
They are going on the government dole. Easy money, no work, no responsibilities.
Be a shame if they all went belly up and their endowments evaporated into the FJB.
Also no mention of insane college tuition increases driven by government cheap/easy (now free due to JB) student loans.
There is Hope!
White and Asian male need not apply
For most of these schools there is nothing useful to learn that will enable you to make a better living IMO. learning a needed skill and starting your own business is better.
Each of those institutions discriminates against men, especially straight white men. Why pay through the nose to go to college and get treated like a predator?
Naaah
People didn’t want to pay tuition and then sit in front of a computer monitor
Indoctrination is boring. High Schoolers will tell you that. Pay for boredom? Nah
If you’re not going for STEM, why college. The other majors are a joke. Including law (of the woke variety, in any case). The only cure for woke law will be the upcoming CW-II.
1. Demographics -- Fewer and fewer people with children can afford to live in New Jersey. The state's population would be in steep decline if it weren't for large numbers of immigrants.
2. College Costs -- New Jersey has always had a reputation for its ridiculously expensive colleges and universities. It has been known for years that schools in neighboring states are filled with students from New Jersey who simply find a better deal outside the state. Penn State and the University of Delaware were top destinations for my peers when I was in high school in New Jersey. The out-of-state tuition for some state schools around the U.S. is less than what New Jersey residents pay at state schools there.
The university began to die 60 years ago. People are now sensing it. Wokeness cost and irrelevance are factors today.
Joe doesn’t realize his loan forgiveness just hastened the end.
It’s all too expensive. Flagship public universities are the only way to go for in state tuition but even then it’s $120k for an undergrad degree. Four kids like I have? A cool half million dollars. And that the CHEAPEST option for a 4 year college.
Rutgers started the school year with forced masking again. I’m sure that might have something to do with it if other schools are doing the same there.
“Each of those institutions discriminates against men, especially straight white men. Why pay through the nose to go to college and get treated like a predator?”
And then if you are lucky enough to land a job with the government or a large corporation, you will be discriminated against again. Learn a trade, and/or start a small business and go John Galt.
+1
Why pay megabucks for muzzling?
No degree. A black mark that prevents you from attending other colleges. And you still have to pay back the loans.
Any conservative student applying to college should get a lawyer to draw up a contract that the university has to sign to make it very difficult to expel the student for all but the most egregious behavior.
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