"If they invest more dollars in financial aid, they may not end up with enough of an enrollment gain to offset the additional expense," said Nathan Mueller, an enrollment consultant.
The company focused too heavily on issues such as bad debt expenses and management retention without paying enough attention to enrollment, Strayer's chief executive, Robert Silberman, told analysts on a conference call.
Research has identified that a number of students perform well enough to sustain enrollment, but still drop out from college because of a perceived lack of belonging, particularly with peers (Strauss & Volkwein, 2004).
His proposed five-year budget does not provide enough to continue enrollments at current levels, let alone cover millions of the uninsured.
The bill fell far short of the expansion of the program that Democrats had sought in recent months but provides enough money to maintain enrollment at current levels.
From 1997 to 2004, even as Congress gave Head Start enough money to increase enrollment by 22percentthethe number of children in the program increased by only 2percentt.
If the economy does not recover enough to reverse the enrollment growth, states fear they could be left with an unmanageable burden on their already inadequate revenues.
Yet, two-thirds of the Medicaid officials surveyed said they thought this year's appropriations might not be enough to cover continuing enrollment growth.
Only on rare occasions was a clip from one of their briefings — for example, a testy exchange between Carney and Jonathan Karl, of ABC News, debating the logistics of Obamacare enrollment — remarkable enough to make headlines.
Some Wall Street analysts predict that if the federal mandate is struck down and the rest of the law is upheld, the industry will quickly shift its focus to alternatives, particularly those that enable the states to bolster enrollment, so enough healthy people sign up and premiums do not skyrocket.
