Enrollment finally showed some positive signs in fall 2022

Annual change in the number of first-time students in the discipline (%)

Source: Authors' calculations using MIS data. NOTES: Fall of each year. 2016 corresponds to the change between 2015 and 2016. First-time college students are all the students who enrolled for the first time in a credit course as non-special admit (i.e., non-dual enrollment) students in a California community college in the fall of the selected year.