Slide begun ten years ago continues
The College reported at the February 14, 2317 Governing Board meeting that enrollment was down district-wide by 4% in the fall, 2016 and by 2% in the spring, 2016. The College seemed happy the spring reduction was not as great as the fall.
As the College has done for years now, it blamed the absence of a recession and was content to say its decline was similar to that of other community colleges. The College and the Governing Board has done little to focus on the reasons for the decline.
The College stated that by simply calling students who had not re-registered for the spring semester, it caused several to do so. (Not rocket science.) This seemed to the Administration a novel idea.
The Verde Campus has shown a slight increase in enrollment (using headcount) over the past two years.
Here is a chart showing the decline of enrollment by more than 6,000 students over the past several years using actual headcount as announced by the College.
