College used to be a place where you paid $4.5k per year in-state tuition after getting a few scholarships, make friends & testing your physical limits for alcohol eventually stumbling upon a job.
That's no longer the case, no wonder people don't want to go to college anymore.
Syracuse announced a financial deficit this week after missing their enrollment target. They cite demographics geopolitics, but the answer is much simpler:
There are 5.7k higher ed institutions in the US, charging way too much for something that is worth less than ever