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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.

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Chinese New Year- What Animal Am I?

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

1927, 1939, 1951, 1963, 1975, 1987, 1999, 2011, 2023), you are likely an individual who "prefers to figure out things on your own but always think about the best way to say things before speaking. Zodiac animal: Tiger Legend has it that individuals born in the year of Tiger (e.g., If you were born in the Rabbit year (e.g.,

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As jobs grow hard to fill, businesses join the drive to push rural residents toward college

The Hechinger Report

With worker shortages hitting industries nationwide, their companies — and many states’ economies — depend on it. “No Enrollment in Tennessee has actually declined among adults aged 25 to 64 since 2011. Walker Valley High School in Cleveland, Tennessee, is surrounded by rolling hills and factories.

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University of Chicago projected to be the first U.S. university to cost $100,000 a year

The Hechinger Report

But in less than a decade, by 2025, students like Badalamente could expect to pay more than $100,000 per year, based on projections by The Hechinger Report using annual college cost growth rates from 2008 to 2018. The $81 million Joe and Rika Mansueto Library opened in 2011. Pete D'Amato/The Hechinger Report.

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As enrollment falls and colleges close, a surprising number of new ones are opening

The Hechinger Report

The Roux Institute opened last year in borrowed space in this tech company building on the Portland, Maine, waterfront to teach computer science and other subjects. Postsecondary enrollment has been falling since 2011 , with particularly big dips last year and this , according to the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center.

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DEBT WITHOUT DEGREE: The human cost of college debt that becomes “purgatory”

The Hechinger Report

By 2025, more than 60 percent of Georgia jobs will require some kind of post-secondary education, and now only 45 percent of the state’s young adults meet that criterion. Or they might hire unqualified workers and train them in-house – which could harm productivity and drive away companies considering relocating to Georgia, Smith said.

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With Unfilled Jobs, Businesses Push Rural Residents Toward College

MindShift

With worker shortages hitting industries nationwide, their companies — and many states’ economies — depend on it. That area was short-listed for a new factory planned by a South Korean auto parts manufacturer that would have provided 1,000 jobs, but the company pulled out because of the low proportion of skilled workers available.