Demographics: Some colleges seek elder students to counter enrollment declines

Starting in the coming school year, researchers say there will be dramatically fewer high school graduates available to fill the country’s higher-ed classrooms, stemming from a decline in birth rates that started around the 2008 financial crisis.

Retirees on campus: Colleges tap into the senior housing market as enrollments shrink – oregonlive.com

This has been so predictable – pretty lame to blame the “2008 financial crisis”. Nope. It’s a long term trend that began decades ago.