Declining numbers of young Americans has our college officials worried. How will they be able to fill classrooms as the number of kids coming of college age continues to fall?

In today’s Martin Center article, Hillsdale’s Samuel Negus reflects on that situation and argues that the colleges have helped to create their own predicament.

He writes:

The looming college-enrollment crisis is an intractable consequence of demography. As such, it is downstream of our society’s orientation away from marriage and childrearing. The irony is that arguably no culture-making institutions have done more to reshape those attitudes than colleges and universities. Where are large families less welcome, or where do they seem more culturally transgressive, than on American campuses?

Good point. Moreover, radical professors teach that our nation is so terrible and that we have so ruined the planet that it would be wrong to bring children into it.

Read the whole thing.