OPINION: In higher ed, lower enrollment isn’t the only sign of trouble - DAVID STEELE-FIGUEREDO, Hechinger Report

With a doctoral degree in chemical engineering in hand, I decided to immigrate to the United States in the late 1960s from the United Kingdom because of three key attributes about America: Its top university system, its moon-reaching technological prowess and its booming, low-unemployment economy. Today, disconcertingly, there are a number of signs that the U.S. university system is in decline, even while these other attributes continue to flourish. One measure of the health of higher education is total enrollment. As Jon Marcus recently wrote in The Hechinger Report, for the sixth straight year enrollment at U.S. colleges and universities has dropped. http://hechingerreport.org/opinion-higher-ed-lower-enrollment-isnt-sign-trouble/