"For-profit colleges and community colleges continue to be hardest hit. But small rural colleges and Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) are also struggling. Even second-tier public colleges and universities have been declining in enrollment."
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/college-meltdown-shows-few-signs-slowing-2019-dahn-shaulis/?published=t
In another chain, someone referred to a faculty meeting being held this weekend--did that happen? What was the outcome?
The business paradigm has long infected education. The excellent public college I attended, putting myself through as a waitor/bartender, is entirely out of reach were I to try to self-subsidize a good education today. The cost is 30x now what it was then. And with the rising costs the quality of education has not improved. Students coming in to college are remedial, not interested in any kind of morally elevated, transcendent learning experience; they are rather credential chasers, hoping to parlay the credential into a well-paying job. Everything must be dirt clear, basic, practical. Education as an elegant time-immersive, time-intensive, labor of love is dead. "Abandon hope all ye who enter here," ought to be the modern college motto. For education will only make you a wage slave, and the more ignorant and pliable you are kept, the better.