College’s across the country are apparently dealing with an enrollment crisis.
University of Wisconsin Whitewater Spokesperson Jeff Angileri says there have only been three times since the end of World War II that’s there’s been a significant decline in higher education enrollment.
Angileri says the first was in the 1950’s when the first recipients of the GI Bill finished school, the second was in the late 1970’s and early 1980’s during the recession, and the current dip now is the most significant with declining enrollment for nearly a decade.
For the third year in a row, enrollment at UW-Whitewater went down, dropping 4.1%. Enrollment at the university’s Rock County campus in Janesville is down 11.6%.
UW-Whitewater is planning to cut it’s budget by $12 million over the next two years and lay off employees to compensate for three years of steady declines in enrollment.
