The consequences of declining higher education enrollment are extensive. Apart from financial struggles leading to college closures and missed opportunities for students, there are greater implications such as workforce shortages in various essential fields like social work and teaching. The decline in skilled workers affects the economy and the country's ability to produce competent professionals. Lawmakers are engrossed in other issues like campus speech and anti-Semitism, overlooking the crucial challenge of sustaining colleges as institutions serving the public good and shaping the future workforce.