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Fewer grads enrolling in college
Statewide, 59% of class of 19 in post-high school education
ASHLEY SLOBODA | The Journal Gazette
A troubling trend in Indiana has worsened.
After years of steady declines, the percentage of college-bound high school graduates plunged to its lowest point in more than a decade. Of the 2019 graduates, 59% enrolled in education after high school, down from 61% the previous year, according to a recent report by the Indiana Commission for Higher Education.
The college-going rate has been steadily declining since 2015, when it was 65%, the agency said, “but this is the largest drop year-to-year.”
The commission expects the decline will continue in the 2022 Indiana College Readiness Report considering fall 2020 enrollment for two- and four-year public colleges dropped by 13% and 4%, respectively.
WORK TO BE DONE
Rick Farrant
The unemployment rate in northeast Indiana has been running below 5%, the labor force grew for the first time in 10 months in March, and employers throughout the region are hiring.
By a number of metrics, the region s workforce landscape seems to be healthy and the economy rebounding from a virus-fueled slowdown. But there is one glaring exception.
Throughout virtually every industry in northeast Indiana, employers are asking the same question: Where are the workers?
There is an air of frustration bordering on desperation, and there seems to be no speedy remedy other than people who are able need to get back to work.
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