Getting Smarter - Rena Baer, the Lane Report

The real test will come over the next few months as bills come due and students and their families commit to a single institution. Those numbers will paint a truer picture of the economy’s impact on Kentucky’s college enrollment. In the 2007-08 school year, Kentucky lost 0.2 percent of its enrollment, one of the rare drops in the nation, which as a whole experienced a 2.2 percent rise in enrollment, according to data recently released by the State Higher Education Executive Officers.