Private Colleges Face Enrollment Challenges - Robert Breuder, Huffington Post

The Wall Street Journal recently reported on the falling enrollment at small private colleges and the national trends contributing to it. Most telling is a quote from Jonathan Henry, vice president of enrollment at Husson University in Bangor, Maine: "I think it's fair to say 30 percent of these private schools won't exist in a decade." Ray Schroeder, Associate Vice Chancellor for online learning at the University of Illinois at Springfield, believes students will take a mix of courses -- in a traditional classroom, online, flipped or blended courses, and massive open online courses (MOOCs). In addition, students will take these courses through a combination of four-year institutions, community colleges and for-profit companies, like Coursera, before completing their education. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-robert-l-breuder/private-colleges-face-enr_b_4833794.html