State lawmakers need to prepare for significant changes in college enrollment that will impact the entire workforce.
reports more and more high school graduates are opting out of the four-five-six years in a college dorm formula. They’re opting out of spending half of their lives saddled with debt. They’re doing what generations before them did -- getting a job, learning a real money-making skill, and starting life debt-free.
” whitepaper she wrote in 2018. She is urging the state to bring together educators as well as labor and business to assess the impact of what colleges are calling the “enrollment cliff” that is now seeing far fewer young people going to colleges right out of high school. The simple fact is colleges and universities are pricing themselves out of business. And many refuse to accept that reality. In doing so, they’re choosing the surest path to going out of business – raising tuition year after year.
Thompson reports Bureau of Labor Statistics data for the Harrisburg/Carlisle metropolitan shows as an ultrasound technician without a four-year college degree can make an impressive $72,000 a year. But a teacher with a college degree earns only about $65,350. And let’s not talk about the stress teachers face these days.Increasing numbers of young people today reject the idea of spending half their working lives paying down the debt they took on as teenagers.
The point it, change is here, and lawmakers need to get as smart as today’s young people. They need to start preparing for this major demographic shift and helping our communities prepare for it, too.
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