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American higher education enrollment declined again this spring
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For nearly a decade I’ve been tracking one higher education enrollment trend. Since 2012 the total number of students taking classes in American colleges and universities has declined. It’s a steady trend, with the curve dipping down every single academic year. COVID-19 exacerbated this trend. Fall 2020 saw enrollments drop more steeply than in previous years, down 2.5% overall. Which gave rise to the natural question: how would enrollment fare in the spring 2021 semester? Well, new data on this just appeared from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. Short version: total enrollment declined by 3.5%, “seven times worse than...
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