Bethany College President Jamie Caridi informed Wheeling Rotary Club members Tuesday about how his school is making changes to its educational offerings to keep up with an ever-changing world.

Caridi was the featured speaker during the club’s meeting at WesBanco Arena. He said higher education in general is seeing fewer students enroll right out of high school. For example, during the past 20 years, the number of Americans participating in higher education went from 21 million people down to 18 million today.

This has resulted in about 150 institutions nationwide closing during the past five years. Many schools are learning to adapt with different offerings or scaling back other offerings.

At Bethany, a new nursing program is underway in collaboration with WVU Medicine and West Virginia

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