Roger Williams University grows enrollment by freezing tuition

By Lynn Arditi. At Roger Williams University, dormitories are bursting with “temporary” triples and “supersized” rooms. Undergraduate enrollment during the last two years has climbed 7 percent, to 4,011 students this fall — the largest in the university’s history. And freshman enrollment during the same period is up 15 percent.
Forecasters had predicted just the opposite. The shrinking population of high school graduates and the tuition hikes that have made college increasingly unaffordable were expected to decrease enrollments. More...