Five Strategies to Survive the Demographic Cliff
What is the demographic cliff and why is college enrollment declining? We’ll answer these questions and provide strategies to battle college enrollment decline.
For years, demographers have warned that higher education faced a projected decline later this decade in the number of Americans projected to graduate from high school, shrinking student cohorts in ways that could threaten colleges’ financial viability. The pandemic and the ensuing recession have resulted in roughly a million fewer students enrolling in college in 2021 than in 2019, raising concerns about college access and equity and straining institutional budgets.
As you’re looking ahead to the 2022-23 academic year, the adage “if you fail to prepare, you prepare to fail”