State report on Virginia Community Colleges raises ‘demographic cliff’ questions
Update: 2025-10-07
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<figcaption class="wp-element-caption">Actual and Projected College Freshmen: Digest of Education Statistics 2016, 2020, 2022. Estimated Number of 18-Year-Olds: U.S. Census Bureau 2017 estimates, 2023 estimates (first to be based on 2020 census data). (Credit: Ruffalo Noel Levitz)</figcaption></figure>
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<figcaption class="wp-element-caption">Actual and Projected College Freshmen: Digest of Education Statistics 2016, 2020, 2022. Estimated Number of 18-Year-Olds: U.S. Census Bureau 2017 estimates, 2023 estimates (first to be based on 2020 census data). (Credit: Ruffalo Noel Levitz)</figcaption></figure>Experts are calling it a “demographic cliff.” That’s the point in the next few years where a decline in births after 2007 will start to impact college enrollment.
And as Brad Kutner found out Monday morning, elected officials in Richmond are already starting to worry about it.
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