College enrollment is falling. Here's why it could be hurting low-income families the most.
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Undergraduate college and university enrollment has decreased by nearly 5% from last year for both fall and spring semesters, according to data from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center.
That drop is "larger than anything we have seen in years," the group's executive director Doug Shapiro warned on CBSN Monday. As high school seniors across the country make their final decisions for college, NSCRC's research reflects that 4.4% less of them were enrolled at an undergraduate institution for the fall 2020 semester. Spring 2021 enrollment dropped 4.5% compared with the same time last year.Ashley White received her earliest combat action badge from the United States Army soon after the first lieutenant arrived in Afghanistan. The silver military award, recognizing soldiers who've been personally engaged by an attacker during conflict, was considered an achievement in and of itself as well as an affirming rite of passage for the newly deployed. White had earned it for using her own body to shield a group of civilian women and children from gunfire that broke out in the midst of her third mission in Kandahar province. All of them survived. She never mentioned the badge to anyone in her battalion.