Private University Enrollment Figures Reflect Paradigm Shift in College Education - Robert Salomon, Seeking Alpha

This given my interest in the history and development of universities and colleges, I found today’s article about private college enrollments interesting, though not entirely unexpected (see Enrollment to Drop at a Third of Private Colleges). According to Bloomberg: Almost a third of U.S. private colleges expect freshman enrollment to decline in the 2009-2010 school year as families struggle to pay bills and hold down debt, according to a survey. Fourteen percent of schools surveyed from May 18 to June 19 predicted new undergraduate student enrollment would fall more than 5 percent…Forty-four percent of the schools said tuition deposits for the semester that starts in September declined from a year ago.