Higher education pipeline out of balance - DUSTIN WALSH, Crain's Detroit

Michigan's colleges and universities are facing a demographic reckoning. The number of teenagers graduating from high school across Michigan is on a decade-long decline, compounded by a tight labor market causing high school grads to seek work instead of education. The dip in graduates has placed continued enrollment and budget pressures on the state's higher education institutions, some of which are filling gaps with younger high-school students, older students and former dropouts. The number of high school graduates in Michigan has dropped nearly 8 percent in the last decade — from 112,736 graduates in 2009 to 104,070 graduates in 2018. https://www.crainsdetroit.com/education/higher-education-pipeline-out-balance