In Michigan, our flagship schools are thriving with Greek life but all the rest are seeing significantly reduced numbers and quotas have gone from 80 to 50 or 55 to 35 or 40. I'm seeing quotas of 4 or 5 at schools where it used to be 10 -12. We've been seeing this since COVID. I think a lot of students are just doing online classes and not moving onto campuses. They are also paying insane amounts of tuition and it's hard to justify sorority dues when you're taking out so much in student loans. Michigan is now paying for two years of community college for new high school grads who want to do that, so freshman numbers at directional schools are going to just plummet, I think. Why pay $25,000 a year for tuition and room & board when you can go to community college for a couple years for free?
Found this article/document with falling numbers. College has simply become unaffordable for a lot of people and they are turning to trades or vocations instead.
https://www.house.mi.gov/hfa/PDF/Fis...ds_Jan2023.pdf