college enrollment falls for 5th straight year

[cheka.]

7.7% drop over 5 years (if my maff is co-rect). will a shortage of waiters and baristas ensue? their supply is ebbing (:;)

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/12/19/college-enrollment-drops-1-4-as-adults-head-back-to-work.html

Despite aggressive efforts nationwide to boost the number of people who attend college, enrollments declined this fall for the fifth straight year as better job prospects for older potential students and a stalled pipeline of new high-school graduates were compounded by continued woes in the for-profit college sector.

Total fall-term undergraduate and graduate enrollment slid by 1.4% to 19.01 million students as of the beginning of this month, according to the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center, a nonprofit education organization.

Enrollment peaked at nearly 20.6 million in 2011.

[Joshua01]

More and more people are realizing that college is no longer a higher degree of education and that will cost you your fiscal solvency and are rejecting the idea, it's about time
7.7% drop over 5 years (if my maff is co-rect). will a shortage of waiters and baristas ensue? their supply is ebbing (:;)

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/12/19/college-enrollment-drops-1-4-as-adults-head-back-to-work.html

Despite aggressive efforts nationwide to boost the number of people who attend college, enrollments declined this fall for the fifth straight year as better job prospects for older potential students and a stalled pipeline of new high-school graduates were compounded by continued woes in the for-profit college sector.

Total fall-term undergraduate and graduate enrollment slid by 1.4% to 19.01 million students as of the beginning of this month, according to the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center, a nonprofit education organization.

Enrollment peaked at nearly 20.6 million in 2011.

[Ares]

More and more people are realizing that college is no longer a higher degree of education and that will cost you your fiscal solvency and are rejecting the idea, it's about time

I realized that back in 1998-1999 and quit going when my G.I. Bill ran out. I realized when I was in taking courses that I was literally being taught nothing that I didn't already know. I was going for Computer Science, about the time the Public Speaking teacher gave me a "D" for not keeping my audience in mind when discussing the emergence of Nano-technology I accused her of reverse discrimination because a black guy read Cat in the hat and got an A (got a refund for her course) and just stopped going.

Haven't stepped foot back in a college class room in almost 20 years, and don't plan on ever going too.

[crimethink]

This is incredibly good news.

This is pretty much conclusive evidence that prospective students have come to realize college is a sick joke. The money is there for those who truly need it, but more and more realize it's a wasteful investment of time & money, with little to no payoff for most degrees. Further, some also realize your must check your brain & soul at the door to "succeed" at most colleges.

[crimethink]

about the time the Public Speaking teacher gave me a "D" for not keeping my audience in mind when discussing the emergence of Nano-technology

You deserved an F. You failed to give a presentation understandable for IQ 60 and below. :-)

Although a presentation on Gender Inequality in Nanotechnology might have earned you that D.

[cheka.]

small colleges in financial trouble as revenue drops

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2017/02/09/small-colleges-fight-to-survive-amid-warnings-of-shaky-finances/?utm_term=.5a9b1eb22d68

Small colleges fight to survive, amid warnings of shaky finances

About 40 percent of American colleges enroll 1,000 or fewer students. Another 40 percent enroll 1,000 to 5,000 students. These campuses, clustered mostly in the Northeast and upper Midwest, are employment and cultural anchors in their communities, where other industries have fallen on hard times in recent decades.

But now these schools are in trouble, too. Rarely does a week pass without one of the major bond-rating agencies issuing a warning about the finances of a small college. What’s significant about the guidance of these firms is that they tend to rate only schools with strong balance sheets to begin with.

Just this week, Moody’s Investors Service revised the outlook on Mount St. Mary’s University in Maryland to “negative” from “stable.”

Freshman enrollment fell 17 percent last fall, Moody’s said, and that means “heightened financial risks” for the tuition-dependent university on $38 million in rated debt. At the same time, Moody’s affirmed Mount St. Mary’s Ba2 rating, which still places the debt in junk territory, because the university has made “progress in stabilizing leadership and rebuilding its board.”

[What U.S. higher education can learn from Canada: Bigger schools can be the best]

Like many small colleges, Mount St. Mary’s is competing for a shrinking number of students in its primary recruitment market. After decades of a fairly steady upward expansion in the number of high-school graduates across the United States, the nation is heading into a lengthy period of stagnation, according to projections released in December by the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education.

[Joshua01]

Let them all fold....good riddance!
small colleges in financial trouble as revenue drops

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2017/02/09/small-colleges-fight-to-survive-amid-warnings-of-shaky-finances/?utm_term=.5a9b1eb22d68

Small colleges fight to survive, amid warnings of shaky finances

About 40 percent of American colleges enroll 1,000 or fewer students. Another 40 percent enroll 1,000 to 5,000 students. These campuses, clustered mostly in the Northeast and upper Midwest, are employment and cultural anchors in their communities, where other industries have fallen on hard times in recent decades.

But now these schools are in trouble, too. Rarely does a week pass without one of the major bond-rating agencies issuing a warning about the finances of a small college. What’s significant about the guidance of these firms is that they tend to rate only schools with strong balance sheets to begin with.

Just this week, Moody’s Investors Service revised the outlook on Mount St. Mary’s University in Maryland to “negative” from “stable.”

Freshman enrollment fell 17 percent last fall, Moody’s said, and that means “heightened financial risks” for the tuition-dependent university on $38 million in rated debt. At the same time, Moody’s affirmed Mount St. Mary’s Ba2 rating, which still places the debt in junk territory, because the university has made “progress in stabilizing leadership and rebuilding its board.”

[What U.S. higher education can learn from Canada: Bigger schools can be the best]

Like many small colleges, Mount St. Mary’s is competing for a shrinking number of students in its primary recruitment market. After decades of a fairly steady upward expansion in the number of high-school graduates across the United States, the nation is heading into a lengthy period of stagnation, according to projections released in December by the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education.

[keehah]

More (((nwo))) inversion for collapse.

The Atlantic: Colleges Have a Guy Problem (https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/09/young-men-college-decline-gender-gap-higher-education/620066/)

September 14, 2021
A recent viral news story reported that a generation of young men is abandoning college.

American colleges and universities now enroll roughly three women for every two men. This is the largest female-male gender gap in the history of higher education, and it’s getting wider. Last year, U.S. colleges enrolled 1.5 million fewer students than five years ago, The Wall Street Journal recently reported. Men accounted for more than 70 percent of the decline.

Women in the United States have earned more bachelor’s degrees than men every year since the mid-1980s—every year, in other words, that I’ve been alive. This particular gender gap hasn’t been breaking news for about 40 years. But the imbalance reveals a genuine shift in how men participate in education, the economy, and society. The world has changed dramatically, but the ideology of masculinity isn’t changing fast enough to keep up...

In 1970, men accounted for 57 percent of college and university students. Two years later, Congress passed Title IX regulations that prohibited sex-based discrimination in any school that received federal funding. “The fact that the gender gap is even larger today, in the opposite direction, than it was when Congress determined that we needed a new law to promote equal education seems like something we should pay attention to,” says Richard Reeves, a Brookings Institution senior fellow who is writing a book about men and boys in the economy. “I’m struck by the fact that nobody seems to understand why this is happening.”

madnesshub: Affirmative action for male students is new 'dirty little secret': US colleges 'worried' as men abandon courses in record numbers - but are afraid to speak out amid glare of gender politics (http://www.madnesshub.com/2021/09/affirmative-action-for-male-students-is.html)

September 07, 2021
Even as student bodies become increasingly female however, colleges are afraid to advocate for male students for fear of falling foul of gender politics.

Instead admissions tutors are offering more places to male applicants than females in an effort to redress skewed gender ratios, the Wall Street Journal reported...

Female students are aided by more than 500 centers at schools across the country set up to help women access higher education - but no counterpart exists for men.

And women are outstripping men in nearly every area of college life - with female students making up 80 of honors graduates from the University of Vermont's college of arts and sciences.

Women also made up 59 per cent of student body presidents in 2019-20, with that figure rising to 74 per cent of vice presidents...

[Male students] also face the increasing belief that college degrees do not pay and are not the only path to success, especially with soaring fees.

But both schools and colleges are unwilling to fork out funding to encourage male students, preferring instead to support historically underrepresented students.

That is because these institutions fear they will be criticized for supporting white men and other groups that have historically had the easiest access to education, according to the department chair for Education Leadership and Policy Analysis at the University of Wisconsin’s School of Education, Jerlando Jackson.

[EE_]

More (((nwo))) inversion for collapse.

The Atlantic: Colleges Have a Guy Problem (https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/09/young-men-college-decline-gender-gap-higher-education/620066/)


madnesshub: Affirmative action for male students is new 'dirty little secret': US colleges 'worried' as men abandon courses in record numbers - but are afraid to speak out amid glare of gender politics (http://www.madnesshub.com/2021/09/affirmative-action-for-male-students-is.html)

What are these college educations going to be worth during the collapse? 2 1/2 million criminal illegals are flooding our country just this year, and that's the one's they know of.
In 3 more years, there will many millions more. Civil war is coming and you will see roving gangs of violent criminals raping, pillaging and plundering our country.
When we reach that point and the guns come out, what will these college educated females be doing?

[keehah]

What are these college educations going to be worth during the collapse?

You need to see this from the 'correct' perspective lol.

Besides lowing the fertility rate and furthering the genocide of western citizens and increasing societal conflict from false entitlement, today's college education is employment stability for hundreds of thousands of 'public service' 'liberal' marxist communist degenerates and Antifa training agents.

getschooled.com/article/1320-scholarships-for-undocumented-daca-mented-students-get-that-money/ (https://getschooled.com/article/1320-scholarships-for-undocumented-daca-mented-students-get-that-money/)