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Actual and Projected College Freshmen: Digest of Education Statistics 2016, 2020, 2022. Estimated Number of 18-Year-Olds: U.S. Census Bureau 2017 estimates, 2023 estimates (first to be based on 2020 census data). (Credit: Ruffalo Noel Levitz)

Experts are calling it a “demographic cliff.” That’s the point in the next few years where a decline in births after 2007 will start to impact college enrollment.

And as Brad Kutner found out Monday morning, elected officials in Richmond are already starting to worry about it.

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