Posts tagged as “enrollment”

By Cassie Roy | Assistant Editor

Colleges and universities are struggling to stay open as we face a nationwide decrease in college enrollment.

Small private schools have been affected greatly, the majority of them having to shut down due to a significant decrease in the student population, according to Dean of Students, Jason Zelesky.

The U.S. is currently in the middle of a decrease in young adults attending college. The increase is projected to happen between the years 2025 and 2030. Four year colleges that grew too rapidly over the past twenty or so years to accommodate the constant influx of students attending college every year. read more

By Benjamin Allen | Observer Contributor

At MWCC, enrollment rates are down 3.8% in the 2011 fall semester after several years of continuous increases. You can see the changes in enrollment rates in the chart above.

The associate VP of enrollment management and student financial aid, Ryan Forsythe, attributed the decrease to a change in the economic situation and people with less of a need to go to school. The decline is also caused by smaller high school graduating class sizes and a change in demographics in the community. Forsythe also noted that these enrollment rates are fluctuating around the area with many other colleges seeing changes in their enrollment rates. read more

MWCC President Feeling ‘Optimistic’ After Uptick in Enrollment

By Elysian Alder | Editor-in-Chief

After a decade of precipitous declines in enrollment, Massachusetts community colleges are now poised to experience an enrollment resurgence, signaling the potential for positive developments in higher education institutions across the state. Mount Wachusett Community College, in particular, has already begun to see the results of this shift. “We put a budget together to be perhaps down 6%, and we’re up 12%,” explained MWCC President James Vander Hooven. “So it’s an 18% swing in our budget and 12% increase in students.” read more