on point!

we are NOT seen as a safe place, plus we are expensive and colleges are no longer able to give as much aid to foreign students. they have been dependent on foreign students for at least a decade and them rethinking coming here is a huge issue.

I found the Vox article very interesting and liked how they did touch on how Olympic sports (like field hockey) are being used in enrollment management. Schools like Ship, York - there are TONS here in Pennsy - are absolutely using kids' desires to continue to play niche sports as a hook for enrollment. Whether or not this fits their mission I'm unsure of. I don't think it's necessarily bad, and probably helps young people to keep on track with their classes actually (since they can't party too much during their sport season).

Pennsylvania does have a problem. We just have too many schools here. A lot of them are lovely and I will be sad to see them go. But there's no way they can ALL stay in business, I don't think.