Fewer students are going to college. Here’s why that matters: https://www.npr.org/2019/12/16/787909495/fewer-students-are-going-to-college-heres-why-that-matters#:~:text=This%20fall%2C%20there%20were%20nearly,tracks%20college%20enrollment%20by%20student.&text=Over%20the%20past%20eight%20years,nationwide%20has%20fallen%20about%2011%25.

 

In this article by Elissa Nadworny, she talks about how 250 thousand high schools graduates haven’t enrolled into college, because nowadays there are many ways to make money and how the new generation prefers to go to work after graduating and develop a skillset than going to college and paying high amounts of money, and she also addresses how since there is a healthy economy the tuition prices of college are to high that pretty much give people more reasons why not to go to college and work and develop from there, and how another factor that colleges are not paying factor too is that they are focusing too much on high school graduates and they forget that there are adults that are interested into going to college but they don’t know where to go since college are not looking for them and helping adults be interested to go back to college and learn.

 

I chose this article because it demonstrates how a large amount of students are not attending to college and It gives the reason why many students are not currently attending to college and one of them is that, most people decide to ditch college and go straight to work to develop a skill that would help them get a better job and since before covid the economy was doing good there was many jobs for people to apply and work and some of them payed good, in fact the article addresses this topic.” As the economy gets better, unemployment goes down — it’s currently at 3.5 % — and more people leave college, or postpone it, and head to work.”. this small piece of the article gives me a solid response to my question because it shows how students are actually preferring work over college and show how the new generation are mostly focus on generating money and learning work skillsets than going to college, which is good for them personally because they earn skills and money at a young age but the problems comes in the future when there is not enough of doctors, scientist, engineers, to do specialized jobs that we would need people with specialized knowledge.

 

Another piece of this article that gave me an insight for an answer for my question is. “A strong economy and soaring college costs have made it even more difficult for colleges to persuade students to enroll. And yet, employers still need skilled workers, whether it’s a profession that requires a four-year degree, other jobs that require an associate degree, or skills or trades that need certificates or credentials. If fewer people are getting those credentials, those jobs often sit empty.”. this piece of the article has a big impact on my question since it addresses how eventually we would run short of people with profession, because the high prices of college and the many jobs that don’t require a diploma are making people not think into enrolling into college since     it would technically would be a smart move for them financially which is what most people want to be which is financially stable, which like I said before is a good personal decision but is going to affect us over time since we won’t have specialized personnel to fill jobs that require people with a specific type of knowledge.