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If you look at the data, there simply is no “epidemic” of college closures.

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Journalists, politicians, reformers, and consultants love to contend that there’s an ongoing wave of college closures. They can’t stop hyping the so-called demographic cliff that is supposedly sending college enrollments plummeting. And throughout it all, they insist that there’s some moral lesson behind the downfall: Colleges are too spendy, or too woke, or too resistant to change.

Doomsaying of this nature spiked last month after the announced end of Hampshire College in Massachusetts.…