As the enrollment crash becomes an existential crisis, what’s happened at this nearly 140-year-old art school shows that colleges and universities can, in fact, transform, by quickly adding programs in response to student and employer demand, better connecting academic offerings to workforce opportunities and generally challenging a culture that resists change. “The numbers are undeniable,” said Ian Anderson, vice president of academic affairs and dean. “You have to innovate your way off of this demographic cliff.”
