{"id":64783,"date":"2022-09-14T00:35:45","date_gmt":"2022-09-14T04:35:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/world.edu\/?p=64783"},"modified":"2022-09-14T00:35:45","modified_gmt":"2022-09-14T04:35:45","slug":"student-enrollment-falls-at-colleges-and-universities-that-are-placed-on-probation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/world.edu\/student-enrollment-falls-at-colleges-and-universities-that-are-placed-on-probation\/","title":{"rendered":"Student enrollment falls at colleges and universities that are placed on probation"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Whenever a college or university gets sanctioned by the agency that provides its accreditation, fewer students enroll in that school. That\u2019s what I found in a study in which I\u00a0examined whether the sanctions influence how students decide<\/a>\u00a0which schools to attend.<\/p>\n

In my analysis, I looked at whether schools given a warning or placed on probation had lower enrollment over the next six years. Using 13 years of data from 847 colleges and universities accredited by the\u00a0Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges<\/a>, I found between 5% and 10% lower enrollment after the schools were sanctioned. Additionally, the lower enrollment occurred in the second, third and fourth years after the sanction.<\/p>\n

My study looked at two types of sanctions a school can face:\u00a0warning or probation<\/a>. Warning is the less serious of the two and means that the school needs to address whatever concerns were identified, or risk probation. Probation means that the institution is at risk of losing accreditation without improvement.<\/p>\n

There were key differences in the enrollment declines depending on the type of school. Four-year private nonprofit universities had an enrollment drop of around 7.7% two years after the less severe sanction of warning. Even though student enrollment fell after the lesser sanction, it took two years for the change to be seen.<\/p>\n

In order to see if the enrollment declines were related to the sanctions, as opposed to something else, I examined the time that lapsed between those two events. Enrollment fell after the sanction, but not before it. I also explored other possible causes, such as graduation rates, which are seen as indicators of quality, but the relationship with sanctions held.<\/p>\n

Public colleges and universities, on the other hand, only experienced declines after the more serious sanction of probation. Four-year public universities\u2019 enrollment dropped by around 5.5% after probation. As with their private counterparts, the decline took two years. Two-year public colleges had a larger and more rapid enrollment reduction of around 9.4% after probation.<\/p>\n

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Why it matters<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Agencies that accredit colleges and universities\u00a0play a unique role<\/a>\u00a0in U.S. higher education: They are meant to assure federal and state governments, as well as employers, students and the general public, that colleges are\u00a0meeting certain threshold standards for things like faculty, curriculum, student services and libraries<\/a>.<\/p>\n

My study shows that sanctions by an accrediting organization lead to lower enrollment. While it isn\u2019t clear if students are using the sanctions in their enrollment decisions, the relationship demonstrates that colleges that do not comply with accreditation standards risk enrollment declines, which could lead to additional financial challenges.<\/p>\n

This is particularly noteworthy given the\u00a0rapid enrollment declines<\/a>\u00a0experienced nationally since COVID-19 hit in spring of 2020 \u2013\u00a0especially among community colleges<\/a>. This is consistent with\u00a0other research<\/a>\u00a0in which I found that nationally, community colleges are particularly prone to enrollment drops after sanctions.<\/p>\n

What still isn\u2019t known<\/strong><\/h4>\n

When colleges are placed on probation by their accrediting agency, they are required by federal law to\u00a0notify current and prospective students within seven business days<\/a>. But whether students are actually being notified \u2013 and whether they understand the notice \u2013 is a separate issue. Without knowing the degree to which students are getting notice, and understanding what it means, it\u2019s difficult to say if students are consciously avoiding schools they know have been placed on probation, or if something else \u2013 such as bad press related to a scandal of some sort \u2013 might be driving their decision.<\/p>\n

Author Bio:<\/strong> Christopher Burnett is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the Institute for Educational Policy Research and Evaluation at the University of Houston<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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