Why some Minnesota colleges are projecting lower, stagnant enrollment

Eric Berg, vice president for enrollment management at The College of St. Scholastica, tells the Duluth News Tribune why enrollment is flat or down at some northeastern Minnesota colleges:

“There has been a longstanding belief that a recession is good for schools. When a recession hits, jobs go away, people go back to school. The reverse can also be said. When the economy starts to recover … the incentive to go to school to get a degree is lessened.”

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Alex Friedrich reports on higher education issues for MPR News. Among the stories he has covered: the fall of the Berlin Wall, aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, collapse of the I-35W bridge in Minneapolis, 2003 Moscow suicide bombing and 2004 presidential elections in the Republic of Georgia. He holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Georgia and a master’s in European political economy from the London School of Economics.