Reply to Middlebury, Conn College, Colby

Forum Index » College and University Discussion

Reply to "Middlebury, Conn College, Colby"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Bumping this thread just to point out that Middlebury expects a class of 2750 in the fall, only 50 less than last fall’s over-enrollment debacle. Surprise, surprise: yet another year of over-enrollment. It’s the new normal. At least admissions isn’t pretending it was anything but intentional all these years anymore:

“The college has remained committed to matriculating the same number of first-year students each year, even when admitting fewer new students would have relieved the strain of having larger-than-usual junior and senior classes from the pandemic-related backlog. ‘We didn't want to penalize the [matriculating] classes of ’21, ’22 and ’23, because the other thing we could have done is just taken 100 less students and denied 100 less students access to a Middlebury education,’ Provost stated.”

https://www.middleburycampus.com/article/2024/03/middlebury-returns-to-typical-enrollment-this-spring-with-plans-to-sell-inn-on-the-green-in-2025[/quote]

I dunno. The article seems to suggest that things are under control and that the college can accommodate all students just fine next year. [/quote]
The article has numerous internal contradictions, but Middlebury is now getting through the worst of its budget crisis and settling into the new post-COVID, anti-study abroad and anti-foreign language era. They had enough of an endowment that it did not need to be at the expense of its own students for so many years running, though. Not out of the woods yet (which is why still over-enrolling by 200): Middlebury had an $8.9 million deficit last year. https://www.middleburycampus.com/article/2024/02/trustees-talk-tuition-construction-finances-for-2023-2024[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics