But the financial picture leaders painted just two months later was far less rosy. The university is facing its second multimillion-dollar deficit in two years and layoffs are the only way out, President Aminta Breaux said. Expenses are rising, and the pool of prospective students is shrinking. Bowie State saw the largest single-year drop in enrollment in the University System of Maryland last year, losing 6% of its roughly 6,000 students.
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