Experts are calling it a “demographic cliff.” That’s the point in the next few years where a reduction in births after 2007 will start to impact college enrollment. And at a meeting Monday morning, elected officials in Richmond were already starting to worry about it.
The so-called “demographic cliff” will, according to researchers, see new 18-year-olds drop by about 15 percent by the end of the 2030s.
And at Monday’s meeting of the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission, the issue was brought up in the context of declining community college attendance…