Abstract
This research extends Joyce’s (2024)
retrenchment research to how to deal with the forecasted “enrollment cliff” in
higher education. Rural regional
universities need to address the “enrollment cliff” by rethinking their purpose
and restructuring their organizations. Among the challenges is the phasing out
of low-demand degree on-campus programs; ensuring value-added courses and
programs; and possibly considering incorporating additional artificial
intelligence to courses adding accounting data analytics as an emerging course
of study.