Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education hopeful enrollment drop is abating - Bill Schackner, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Leaders of Pennsylvania’s 14 state-owned universities say they are hopeful that a prolonged enrollment slide, fueled partly by declining high school graduation rates, is abating, even as newly released figures confirmed a fourth consecutive yearly loss. Total State System of Higher Education enrollment is 109,606 students this fall, 2 percent less than last year. Since peaking at 119,513 students in 2010, the system has lost 8 percent of its total full- and part-time enrollment, or 9,907 students — equal to one of the system’s larger universities. The losses are a reason the campuses are under financial strain and have realigned programs while cutting faculty and staff. http://www.post-gazette.com/news/education/2014/10/10/Pennsylvania-State-System-of-Higher-Education-hopeful-enrollment-drop-is-abating/stories/201410100091