LAS VEGAS (AP) — Call it a form of long COVID, but more than two years into the coronavirus pandemic, student enrollment at the College of Southern Nevada is down about 25% from the fall 2019.
Not only that, but the drop apparently hasn’t bottomed out, with registrations down 5.5% today from last fall, CSN officials said.
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