Vermont colleges chart a path forward against demographic and financial headwinds

The Champlain College campus in Burlington on Wednesday, June 25, 2025. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDiggerHigher education institutions in Vermont are devising ways to stay afloat — from tuition discounts designed to boost enrollment to cutting employee benefits — as they face shifting demographics and financial constraints, college administrators say.   The Northeast region faces some of the sharpest impacts of the demographic cliff due to plummeting birthrates in the a