(04-04-2022 06:33 PM)emu steve Wrote:  Article on CMU's very significant enrollment losses the last 10 years. Sure Covid made a mess of enrollments but still...

CMU draws heavily from 'outstate' (not out of state, but areas like upper part of the lower peninsula, mid-Michigan, etc.) and those are the parts of the state which are not growing but slowly losing population. Each of the three MI MAC schools have their own 'back yards.' Ours is S.E. MI. WMU's is Western (smile) MI including major population areas like Grand Rapids. CMU's part of the map is losing population.

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/l...096290001/

EMU has had enrollment loses including Covid, but seemingly headed in the right direction. CMU is not.

I will make a prediction:

Universities are far worse at adapting to changing business conditions than even the glacially paced Detroit Three automakers. It takes a true crisis or even a bankruptcy to get either to react and change their status quo

Prez Smith was Ford's Alan Mullaly, he saw the missel coming and enacted a bunch of promotional actions like tuition deals and international recruiting. With the rising water level above their shoulders, CMU will not drown, they will enact overdue changes and survive. Case in point; Despite the years of declining enrollment, just THIS year they decided to close Residence Halls, they act ONLY when the gun is pointed at their head.