Here are those enrollment statistics he’s referring to, which come from the National Student Clearinghouse. See the black bars? Enrollment actually grew at traditional 4-year colleges, the institutions which Vedder loves so much to thrash. All of the declines happened in the troubled for-profit sector, which has cut back somewhat on enrolling clearly under-qualified students in an effort to clean up its image, and community colleges, which have been grappling with overcrowding in recent years.