Pandemic shock has hit post-secondary education. Since fall 2019, nearly a million fewer students, or 5.1 percent, are enrolled in higher education institutions. The fall 2021 freshman class was down 9.2 percent, or 213,400 students, leading higher ed advocates to predict trouble on the horizon.
“The opportunity [young people have] to really invest in their educational future, in their future skills, employability and earnings potential … is potentially slipping away,” said Doug Shapiro, executive director of the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. “That’s not good for our students and their families.”
But the enrollment decline is not the calamity many might suggest, since college is neither the only — nor inevitably the best — way for young people to prepare for a prosperous future in America.
That college cash cow slipping? Nah, schools will just bring in more students from outside the usa in. Sad but true.
A WORK’IN Man’s PHD is the BEST kind !!!! & A Jack of ALL Trades !!!!!!
The selection of useless degree programs from colleges without good standing, coupled with student loans has created the reality of this fact.
I see too many that shouldn’t have graduated high school and can’t form a proper sentence during the interview.
Then, they want to axe a question…….
Alot of Dummies come out of college !!!!!
A lot go in….
I know people who dropped out of grade school FAR SMARTER than ANY from College !!!! FACT