Star Tribune features series on higher education enrollment
Star Tribune higher education reporter Ryan Faircloth has been working on a series about how declining enrollment is reshaping higher education. The first article appeared on April 16, titled ‘Code-red moment’: Fewer people going to college in Minnesota could reshape higher education, workforce.
In the story, he writes: “Colleges across the country have been losing students since 2010 as tuition increased, demographics shifted and Americans grew more skeptical about the value of a degree. In Minnesota, total undergraduate enrollment has plunged by almost a third to levels last seen in the late 1990s, according to the state Office of Higher Education, outpacing the more gradual drop in U.S. undergraduates.”
Read the full story, shared with permission by Ryan Faircloth.