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“It’s almost as if you are starting the conversation with a blank sheet of paper,” she said.

Last June, it bought a building for biopharmaceutical education. It has been holding events there for middle and high school students, as well as undergraduates, to show them the possibilities at the college.

All in all, it is confident that students can get “great jobs” after graduation — if only they would enroll.

“The challenge is just thinking differently,”

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Back to normal

Only two colleges reported they were back to pre-pandemic normalcy. Skidmore College’s 2022 freshman class was the largest in the college’s history, with 784 students. (In the fall of 2019, the freshman class had 738 students.)

Skidmore began in 1903 as the Young Women’s Industrial Club. It became a college in 1922 and began admitting men in 1971 at its campus just outside downtown Saratoga Springs.

Union College in Schenectady, which in 1795 was the first college chartered by the state Board of Regents, reported that its enrollment also bounced back after one year.

This year’s junior class has 100 fewer students than the other years. Officials attribute the decrease to the fact that students couldn’t come on campus to tour before their freshman year. The two classes since then are both at the normal enrollment for the 2,100-student college.

“We are very confident about the future, very bullish about the future,” Scott Jones, vice president for administration and finance, said. “We don’t have any plans to retrench.”

Instead, Union is adding majors, including the restoration of civil engineering, which was

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