HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Surge at Tampa Bay community colleges ends. “The number of students enrolled so far this fall is down 4.4 percent at Hillsborough Community College and 2.5 percent at St. Petersburg College. Pasco-Hernando Community College is seeing an even steeper decline — about 8 percent. Those decreases follow explosive growth — double-digit percentages in some years — at all three colleges in recent years. College officials and others offer a variety of explanations for the declines, which show up in both the number of students and the number of credit hours being taken.”