{"id":382,"date":"2025-05-25T22:27:58","date_gmt":"2025-05-25T22:27:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.globalnexusgroup.com\/?p=382"},"modified":"2025-05-25T22:27:58","modified_gmt":"2025-05-25T22:27:58","slug":"a-must-read-from-the-wall-street-journal-on-the-boom-and-bust-of-college-towns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.globalnexusgroup.com\/?p=382","title":{"rendered":"A must read from the Wall Street Journal on the Boom and Bust of College Towns"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>When the University Leaves, What\u2019s Left?<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This <em>Wall Street Journal<\/em> piece titled <em>College Towns Face Boom and Bust <\/em>takes a hard look at Macomb, Illinois \u2014 once a thriving college town built around Western Illinois University \u2014 and the slow unraveling that happens when enrollment drops, jobs disappear, and students no longer fill the streets, shops, and rentals. It\u2019s a cautionary tale with broader implications for university towns everywhere. We are seeing this to some degree in Canada and in other parts of the United States<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As higher education faces demographic shifts, budget cuts, and new models of learning, towns like Macomb remind us that the fate of a university is deeply entwined with the fate of its community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\ud83d\udcd6 Read the full story here: <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/us-news\/education\/college-towns-economy-macomb-illinois-aae84dcc?st=9pC1tG&amp;reflink=article_email_share\">WSJ \u2013 College Towns Face Boom and Bust<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the University Leaves, What\u2019s Left? This Wall Street Journal piece titled College Towns Face Boom and Bust takes a hard look at Macomb, Illinois \u2014 once a thriving college town built around Western Illinois University \u2014 and the slow unraveling that happens when enrollment drops, jobs disappear, and students no longer fill the streets,&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.globalnexusgroup.com\/?p=382\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A must read from the Wall Street Journal on the Boom and Bust of College Towns<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-updates","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.globalnexusgroup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.globalnexusgroup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.globalnexusgroup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.globalnexusgroup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.globalnexusgroup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=382"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.globalnexusgroup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":383,"href":"https:\/\/blog.globalnexusgroup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382\/revisions\/383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.globalnexusgroup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.globalnexusgroup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.globalnexusgroup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}