DELAWARE, Ohio—Behind the deceptive quiet of a small campus in the summer, things are buzzing here as Ohio Wesleyan University confronts a challenge familiar to many liberal arts colleges: falling enrollment.
Faculty at the 175-year-old private school, which has about 1,700 undergraduates, are preparing new majors in high-demand fields, including data analytics and computational neural science. Admissions officers are back from scouting out prospective students in China, India and Pakistan. Recruiters have been on the road closer to home, too, in Cleveland and Chicago. In the athletics department, work is under way to add two sports — wrestling and women’s crew — and a marching band.
