Appalachian State University's Boone campus saw overall enrollment decline to 17,063 students, a drop of about 6 percent from the previous year, while the university simultaneously reached record levels in online, graduate, transfer and first-generation student enrollment.
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Appalachian State's Boone campus lost about 1,000 students this fall, a 6% drop from last year. But the real numbers are buried in the fine print, online enrollment, graduate students, transfers, and first-generation students all hit records. So the university is not shrinking, it is reshaping. Fewer bodies on the mountain, more of them studying remotely, more of them coming through the back door. What this means for a town that built itself around a residential campus is the question we've got to start discussing.
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