As the enrollment crash becomes an existential crisis, what's happened at this nearly 140-year-old art school shows that colleges and universities can, in fact, transform.
At a time when colleges are increasingly focused on how to get and keep students enrolled, some of the most surprising challenges are not academic but logistical.
Money could be used to boost counseling, fix remedial education, modernize systems for reenrolling students, ease transfers or help students through a financial emergency.
Citing financial burdens from the pandemic, CUNY temporarily suspends a policy that prevented students from transferring or seeking jobs that require a transcript.
Students returning to college campuses this fall may experience a transition similar to what astronauts go through when they return to Earth after a mission in outer space.
