From the Peoria Journal Star...
"As for WIU itself, the enrollment news is not good.
Enrollment is expected to decrease about 14 percent for the 2018-19 academic year, according to an update the WIU board of trustees received last week. Total enrollment is expected to be just above 8,000, compared with slightly less than 9,500 in 2017-18.
The incoming freshman class is projected to be 815, a 32 percent drop. It’s also about half the number of incoming freshmen WIU had two years ago."
That is a huge drop in overall enrollment and in freshman enrollment in a short period of time. The WIU pres is looking to get out of town. It is difficult to imagine that his leadership over enrollment is effective when he's so actively looking to go, particularly in light of this type of decrease.
I have no idea what the Illinois Board of Higher Ed is doing to address loss of students to out of state schools.
"As for WIU itself, the enrollment news is not good.
Enrollment is expected to decrease about 14 percent for the 2018-19 academic year, according to an update the WIU board of trustees received last week. Total enrollment is expected to be just above 8,000, compared with slightly less than 9,500 in 2017-18.
The incoming freshman class is projected to be 815, a 32 percent drop. It’s also about half the number of incoming freshmen WIU had two years ago."
That is a huge drop in overall enrollment and in freshman enrollment in a short period of time. The WIU pres is looking to get out of town. It is difficult to imagine that his leadership over enrollment is effective when he's so actively looking to go, particularly in light of this type of decrease.
I have no idea what the Illinois Board of Higher Ed is doing to address loss of students to out of state schools.