Posted on 12/15/2024 6:53:24 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Fewer high school graduates began college this fall, with enrollment in that age group dropping 5 percent from last year, according to an analysis by the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center.
Four-year institutions were hardest hit, with public colleges seeing an 8.5 percent drop in first-year enrollments and private nonprofit colleges reporting a 6.5 percent decline.
This trend poses significant challenges for colleges and universities, particularly those reliant on tuition revenue.
As the competition for students intensifies, institutions face mounting pressure to adapt and innovate.
Bill DeBaun, senior director of the National College Attainment Network (NCAN), described decline among recent high school graduates as “very large and very discouraging.”
He attributed the drop to several factors, including the Supreme Court’s 2023 decision to ban affirmative action, regional declines in the number of high school graduates, and a strong economy encouraging students to enter the workforce.
However, DeBaun identified the botched rollout of the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) as the primary driver, noting that NCAN data showed an 11.5 percent year-over-year drop in FAFSA completions among high school seniors as of June.
oddly I’m unalarmed
Creepy indoctrination centers are out of favor? What a shock... /s
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>> oddly I’m unalarmed
I’m elated!
This is a beast that needs to be starved — not to death, but until it burns off all its fat (e.g. social “sciences”, “educator” factories, other fluff populated by marxist academics).
Completely cutting off ALL federal money going into higher education would finish the job. High hopes for DOGE doing the deed.
The bloated, woke education-industrial complex is alarmed.
Its a cost/benefit analysis, as it always should have been. The juice just ain’t worth the squeeze in most cases.
The solution is to raise the price of tuition. Plus add more student teachers so the professors can write about DEI.
Good. For the vast majority college is a total scam.
Recruit more Chinese.
And then many of these students overstay their visas, thus enriching us with their diversity.
Time for tuition to go on sale! Like mattresses, they can have a New Year’s Sale, President’s Day Sale, MLK Sale, Easter Sale, Memorial Day Sale, 4th of July Sale, etc, etc. And if lower tuition means they have to cut some salaries, so be it. Being a “college professor” is the biggest racket of all.
I’m not alarmed at all by this. The college degree has been devalued by wokism turning out students taught to hate those who don’t have a college degree and learn stupid things like “sexuality studies” instead of learning stuff that is actually true and useful to society.
And regardless, even if wokism disappeared overnight at these universities, we still need fewer people going to these places and more going to vocational and trade schools - we need a well rounded workforce and people with a variety of knowledge and skillsets.
And if wokism doesn’t disappear then these places should just go bankrupt.
Oh no - let’s *cap* the price of tuition and professor salaries.
That’s what these socialist professors advocate as for the solution in the private sector - so let them be the example to show how well it works.
They have devalued the college degree while simultaneously making it beyond the reach of people without incurring crushing debt. They had a nice thing going but they got greedy, greedy for money and greedy for smug self satisfaction that they were creating little woke clones of themselves instead of good scholars. And there ya go.
Any info on which majors were hit worst? Are colleges losing engineering students, business students or grievance studies students?
4 years of very expensive schooling to learn how to blow a whistle and scream into a bull horn?
Maybe, before he leaves, joe can figure out how to give some of those no pay back student loans to people that don’t go to school.
That should allay some of those alarms.
Yeah me either. If fact I’m encouraged enough to think that maybe today’s modern youth are smart enough not to shell out 10s of thousand of dollars to pay for their own indoctrination.
The young’ns are gettin’ smarter...trades pay, colleges pile up debt.
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