Enrollment Trends and Student Life

Enrollment Trends and Student Life
A student carries a laundry basket from a car packed with belongings to a student residence hall.
Colleges Face a Student Housing Squeeze
Aug 03, 2022
Some colleges attribute long wait lists for campus housing to heightened demand for a residential experience following two-plus years of COVID-19 disruptions.

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Overhauling Mental Health
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A 5th Straight Semester of Enrollment Declines
The California Student Housing Crunch

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Colleges get creative to solve student housing squeeze
August 3, 2022
Some colleges attribute long wait lists for campus housing to heightened demand for a residential experience following two-plus years of COVID-19 disruptions.
A 'mental health overhaul' for Cal State Long Beach
July 1, 2022
Cal State Long Beach is launching an ambitious series of mental health initiatives that pair students and administrators with practitioners and community members to make resources more accessible.
NSC report shows total enrollment down by 4.1 percent
May 26, 2022
New data from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center show total enrollment declined 4.1 percent since last spring. Community colleges are once again the sector hit the hardest.
Housing demand far exceeds supply at California colleges
March 29, 2022
With rents higher than tuition and fees at many California colleges, a growing number of students face housing insecurity, forced to live in hotels or cars. Institutions can’t build dorms fast enough.
Lack of clear NCAA rules creates confusion around NIL
January 4, 2022
The NCAA has contacted Brigham Young regarding a whole-team NIL deal, even as the rules on players profiting from the use of their name, image and likeness remain unclear.
Columbia College bans kids from classrooms, limits visits
October 12, 2021
Columbia College Chicago says children can’t be in the classroom and otherwise need advance permission to be on campus -- for no more than an hour. Faculty, staff and student leaders are united in their opposition to the policy.
UNC Chapel Hill sends students home and turns to remote instruction
August 18, 2020
They came. They saw. They clustered. Now, a week after starting classes at UNC Chapel Hill, undergraduates are being sent home as coronavirus spreads on campus.
Southern Vermont College says it will shut its doors
March 5, 2019
Facing a demographic spiral and a challenge to its accreditation, tiny Southern Vermont College says it will close its doors.
Influx of federal funds to provide more childcare services for college student-parents
August 2, 2018
A new influx of money at the University of Houston’s on-campus childcare centers shows the impact of a federal program.
Tuition freeze raises Purdue's profile -- at what cost?
April 19, 2018
Holding tuition flat since 2012-13 has raised the land-grant university’s profile and helped it grow, but it is fueling competition for resources by academic departments -- and Purdue is still working to enroll more students from Indiana.

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