"The student body on American college campuses will continue to become more racially diverse, older, and more female over the next decade, according to new projections from the U.S. Department of Education," The Chronicle of Higher Education reports. "The numbers behind those trends are contained in the latest edition of the department's annual report, 'Projections of Education Statistics to 2018,' released today by the department's National Center for Education Statistics. The report estimates that total enrollment in degree-granting institutions will increase to 20.6 million by the fall of 2018, an increase of 13 percent from 2007. During the same period, enrollment is expected to grow by 38 percent among Hispanic students, 26 percent among black students, and only 4 percent among white students."