Freshman enrollment is down at US colleges -- and after the past few...

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

49% : "A similar trend occurred at public institutions.Lowering the cost of higher education will certainly encourage some students to attend who otherwise wouldn't.
45% : According to a poll released by Gallup and the Lumina Foundation over the summer, only 36% of adults say they have a "great deal" or "quite a lot" of confidence in higher education.
45% : Not by a lot -- 6.4 compared to 6.0 -- but, given that women already outnumber men in college by a 3 to 2 ratio, it means that the male revolt against higher education is accelerating.
45% : While some doomsayers predicted that the Supreme Court's recent affirmative action decision would have a devastating impact on the access to higher education by racial minorities, the truth is that white students appear to be deciding against college.
37% : It is difficult for many to take higher education seriously when they see protestors taking over academic buildings, chanting slogans about genocide, and demanding that colleges and universities should be "decolonized.

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