Declining Enrollment News Today

Goddard College in Vermont announces closure due to declining enrollment and financial woes, joining a wave of recent higher education closures. Continue reading for more details.

The goal is for the recommendations to be presented to the school board by June 10, with a November referendum on some parts of the plan possible.

Explore the budget dilemmas facing Long Beach schools: layoffs, program cuts, and the uncertain fate of East School.

Kansas lawmakers consider making it legal to sell fireworks year-round... a train derails in south-central Kansas throwing 17 cars off the tracks... the Wichita school district plans to shutter six schools... Kansas City prepares for a Super Bowl victory parade... and the Chiefs get invited to the White House. Those headlines and more, inside.

UNITY — Regional School Unit 3 administrators are considering the potential for consolidating schools within the district.

"The National Student Clearinghouse Research Center attributes declining enrollments to three major factors: declining birth rates since 2000 has led to fewer high school grads, the increasing financial cost of college, and the effects of the Covid pandemic," writes George Sanderson of Moorhead.

Regrettably, of late, positive news pertaining to TU have become increasingly scarce. The university's diminishing global ranking, coupled with reports of declining enrollment in its central departments, and the impasse surrounding the appointment of a new vice chancellor due to political quandaries, have raised serious concerns on the future of TU.

The school cited declining enrollment as the primary cause of the decision to shutter.

Retirees are a potential market for online and in-classroom course offerings, but they have not been enticed by sufficient advertising and appeal.

Gilbert Public Schools will continue to lose students from inside its boundaries for the next decade despite children from out of the district enrolling in its campuses, a Valley demographer