Colleges caused their own demographic nightmare

American colleges and universities are panicking, for good reason. Enrollment across all of academia has been dropping for years, and starting now, there will be fewer and fewer college-aged people every year for the forseeable future. Colleges are scrambling for a way to survive. Big schools are slashing their course offerings. Small schools are making desperate plays to find a niche in a shrinking market. The bitter irony is this: American colleges and universities brought this crisis on themselves. The Baby Bust has a thousand causes, but some of the most significant anti-natal cultural and economic trends were created by...