Category Archives: enrollment

American higher education enrollment decline returns to pre-pandemic level

Posted on May 24, 2023 by Bryan Alexander

How is higher education enrollment changing? This week the invaluable National Student Clearinghouse Research Center published their latest data on American college and university enrollment. Today I’ll summarize the findings, then point to implications for academia’s future. tl;dr summary – … Continue reading →

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American higher education enrollment: the decline declines?

Posted on February 9, 2023 by Bryan Alexander

How is higher education enrollment changing? The National Student Clearinghouse Research Center just updated their fall 2022 enrollment numbers.   Here I’ll summarize their findings and add some commentary, based on the report as well as a press briefing. (Here’s their … Continue reading →

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Higher education enrollments declined again in fall 2022, according to new data: some observations

Posted on October 20, 2022 by Bryan Alexander

How is American higher education enrollment doing now, in fall 2022? A few hours ago the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center published the first account of its enrollment data for this term.  For some, perhaps many people, this is the … Continue reading →

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The end of Roe and what it might mean for American higher education

Posted on June 25, 2022 by Bryan Alexander

I do appeal to educators across the nation to think, seriously and urgently: With the landscape for women’s reproductive rights changed, what will your institution do to prevent the erosion of women’s hard-won achievements in higher education? –Jo Ellen Parker … Continue reading →

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American higher education enrollment declined again, continuing a decade-long trend

Posted on May 28, 2022 by Bryan Alexander

Enrollment in American higher education just declined.  Again. That means the total number of students taking classes in American colleges and universities during spring 2022 went down compared to the previous semester (fall 2021) and the prior spring term (2021).  … Continue reading →

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A glimpse into one state’s university enrollment changes

Posted on April 5, 2022 by Bryan Alexander

How is public higher education changing? We have a new sketch of an answer to this question for one state. buy dapoxetine online buy dapoxetine no prescription generic   The Detroit News recently ran an article about Michigan’s public universities, … Continue reading →

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Higher education enrollment declined in fall 2021: the latest data

Posted on January 13, 2022 by Bryan Alexander

How did college and university enrollment do in fall 2021? The National Student Clearinghouse Research Center has been tracking this closely. They do essential work. They have already released one estimate for fall 2021, which I wrote about here. Today … Continue reading →

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Two state university systems shrink over a year and a decade

Posted on November 8, 2021 by Bryan Alexander

For years I’ve been projecting and observing a decline in American higher education.  Reality keeps giving examples of those projections becoming observable data.  Today’s case in point is a pair of state university systems, one in Pennsylvania, the other in … Continue reading →

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American higher education enrollments declined, again: new NSCRC data

Posted on October 26, 2021 by Bryan Alexander

(second of two posts; here’s the first one) The enrollment decline in American colleges and universities continued this fall semester, according to just-released data from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center.  This is very important for higher education in this … Continue reading →

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American higher education enrollment declined in 2020: US Census

Posted on October 25, 2021 by Bryan Alexander

(First of two posts) The number of students taking classes in American colleges and universities dropped last year, according to recently release US Census data.  This is an important bit of news, given how crucial enrollment is for tuition-dependent campuses … Continue reading →

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