In four years, the number of students graduating from high schools across the country will begin a sudden and precipitous decline, due to a rolling demographic aftershock of the Great Recession. vox.com
Traumatized by uncertainty and unemployment, people decided to stop having kids during that period. But even as we climbed out of the recession, the birth rate kept dropping, and we are now starting to see the consequences on campuses everywhere. vox.com
Classes will shrink, year after year, for most of the next two decades. People in the higher education industry call it βthe enrollment cliff.β vox.com
Among the small number of elite colleges and research universities β think the Princetons and the Penn States β the cliff will be no big deal.
For everyone else, the consequences could be dire. vox.com
For everyone else, the consequences could be dire. vox.com
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