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After the Pandemic, Higher Education Can’t Afford to Go Back to ‘Normal’

Edsurge

To further complicate matters, statisticians have long warned of the pending “ 2025 cliff ,” which represents the abrupt reduction of potential first-time, full-time freshmen projected to arrive in 2025 to 2026 due to the drop in birth rates between the years 2008 and 2011. million persons under the age of 18.

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Minnesota has a persistent higher-ed gap: Are new efforts making a difference?

The Hechinger Report

He estimated that nearly one in three new jobs created through 2026 will require education beyond high school. According to the American Institutes of Research, Minnesota spent $130 million between 2003 and 2008 just on educating students who dropped out in their first year. System leaders don’t dispute that assessment.

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The Best Way to Predict the Future is to Issue a Press Release

Hack Education

In 2008, ever hopeful, Gartner insisted that “This thing certainly isn’t dead and maybe it will yet blossom.” 2008 – oh crap, we don’t have enough bandwidth for the phones in their pockets. Where would you plot the Segway, for example? (In ” Maybe it will, Gartner. Maybe it will.).

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