Northwest Arkansas Community College enrollment down, but better than expected - Dave Perozek, Arkansas Online

The number of students attending Northwest Arkansas Community College is down nearly 2.5 percent from this time last year, the third time in the last four fall semesters enrollment has dropped. College officials reported 7,962 students Tuesday, a drop of 202 from last fall. The number of credit hours being taken is 70,074, a decrease of 3,590 credit hours -- about 4.9 percent -- from last year. Officials had projected declines of 3 percent in both enrollment and credit hours taken when they crafted the budget for the 2015-16 school year. http://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2015/sep/09/northwest-arkansas-community-college-en/