applications were down even before the protests, the biggest decline in enrollment is coming from IL, for a long time, MU’s OOS tuition wasn’t much more than UIUC’s in state tuition, sometimes it was actually cheaper, but UIUC lowered it’s in state tuition and admission requirements taking away many who might have gone to MU a few years ago, places like Uark and Ole Miss offer in state rates to high achieving OOS students, protests are out of the national news cycle, CS1950 15 minutes of national fame are out outside of conservative bloggers who keep beating the dead horse, enrollment will probably fluctuate up and down over the next few years due to competition for a decreasing number of 18 year olds, there’s also the grad student issues with insurance, they and the faculty supported CS1950 to force Wolf and Loftin out