MILWAUKEE (AP) — The state’s technical colleges are seeing a slight gain in students, which they say often happens when jobs become harder to find.
The biggest growth spurts in the past 30 years at Wisconsin technical colleges coincided with the national economic recessions of 2001, 1991 and the early 1980s. It’s still not clear whether the nation is in a recession now, but enrollment at the state’s 16 technical colleges is growing.
According to the latest estimates, the number of full-time equivalent students is up 1.8 percent compared to the last school year. In the previous two years, annual counts fell.