Would you believe higher education deserts?

Hi, I'm Scott Ott with Bill Whittle and Stephen Green.

This episode of Right Angle is brought to you by the members at Bill Whittle.com.

Gentlemen, you probably remember a few years back during the Obama administration when we were

first alerted to the American crisis of food deserts, and this is basically places where

there's no Trader Joe's within walking distance of your home.

Well, as it turns out, we now have higher education deserts.

And lest you think, Stephen Green, that a higher education desert is just another word for a university.

This is actually...

I was going to say the humanities department.

That's right.

This is...

These are areas, apparently, according to the American Council on Education,

13 million people in the United States

live in higher education deserts,

mostly in the Midwest and the

Great Plains. These are areas that are where it's not convenient for somebody to be able to drive to a college or a university.

Apparently over the last 10 years, if you mark the 10 year period from 2012 to

2022, college enrollment actually declined by about 2 million. But what they're concerned

here about is some private colleges, small colleges, nonprofit colleges that are going out of

business.

There have been a dozen of those or so recently since 2020.

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