Vox (November 21)
“College enrollment began slowly receding after the millennial enrollment wave peaked in 2010, particularly in regions that were already experiencing below-average birth rates while simultaneously losing population to out-migration.” Still worse is coming to higher education in the U.S. “The empty factories and abandoned shopping malls littering the American landscape may soon be joined by ghost colleges, victims of an existential struggle for reinvention, waged against a ticking clock of shrinking student bodies”
Tags: Abandoned, Birth rates, Colleges, Empty factories, Enrollment, Higher education, Millennial, Out-migration, Peaked, Population, Receding, Shopping malls, Shrinking, Student bodies, U.S.