Here’s what I don’t get.... if high school grads are declining, why not look to serve other student populations? Stop outs, drop outs, high school grads that never went to college, Veterans, workers retooling it improving, seniors, women with children — non trads of all sorts who are becoming trads..... A small non-elite college needs to reframe who its students are and how to serve them well — very well. Why would non-elite colleges try to get “better” high school grads when that will never work near or longer term?. Think boldly, innovatively about new populations to serve. Goodness, bring anchored in old ways is doomed. Realize that way ahead of 2026; realize it three years ago and had this been done successfully, more than a handful of small colleges would not have closed. And if stuck in past, don’t lead in US. Go to another nation that has different demographics and do more of same. Of course, absence of innovation anywhere in the globe is fatal. Demographics aren’t only driver for education!!! …see more