Courtesy of Bullet:

http://www.thefederalist.com/2018/2/28/e...e-popping/

Be sure to check out the links. They are important, particularly the one from Harvard. There is a political spin here which you may or may not agree with. Don't focus on that. Focus on the data and the links.

I've covered much of this before, but it's refreshing to see Harvard agrees.

Auburn and Alabama have been preparing for increased enrollment and have lowered entrance standards. The downsizing in higher education will mean fewer smaller state schools and a funneling of enrollment to the larger state schools. And this will be occurring nationwide. Shrinking State budgets, shrinking Federal Grants, and Tech and Automation will force the largest schools to try to support research with undergraduate enrollment increases. Demographics and economics point to both a downturn in enrollment that will deepen, and the generations succeeding the Boomers having thinner wallets and shallower pockets.

The schools are preparing. You might remember when I said realignment wasn't driven by greed, but out of fear for survival and that it was the pursuit of new and larger revenue streams. Well here's some confirmation.