Why Americans are increasingly dubious about going to college

Even as freshmen nervously arrive on campus for the fall semester, policymakers are grappling with what they say has become an alarming decline in the number of high school graduates willing to invest the time and money it takes to go to college.

A little-understood backlash against higher education is driving an unprecedented decline in enrollment that experts now warn is likely to diminish people s quality of life and the nation s economic competitiveness, especially in places where the slide is most severe.

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