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

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You’re in purgatory,” said Nicole Smith, vice president of Georgetown University’s Center on Education and the Workforce. 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.

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College students predicted to fall by more than 15% after the year 2025

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“The number of kids born from 2008 to 2011 fell precipitously. Grawe’s forecasts for the number of students at two-year community colleges and four-year institutions are published in his book, Demographics and the Demand for Higher Education , with updates on his website.

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

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At a time when other higher education institutions are closing or merging because of a decline in the supply of high school graduates, the Roux is among a small but largely unnoticed number of new colleges that are opening. Everybody agrees that our higher education system is broken. Department of Education reports.

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Some colleges seek radical solutions to survive

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Photo: Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images. Thorsett is the president of Willamette University at a time the higher education sector is grappling with a historic enrollment decline and financial challenges that cry out not for incremental change, but for radical solutions. Business was flagging. Middle-class ones.

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Bending to the law of supply and demand, some colleges are dropping their prices

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It may have been one of the biggest back-to-school sales ever: a 64 percent drop in the advertised cost of a college education. million fewer customers than they did at the last peak, in 2011, according to the National Student Clearinghouse , which tracks this. Photo: John S Lander/LightRocket via Getty Images. Baenninger said.

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These students are finishing high school, but their degrees don’t help them go to college

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This story was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education, in partnership with the Huffington Post. Related: How one district solved its special education dropout problem. Who is in Special Education? Higher Education.

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Low academic expectations and poor support for special education students is ‘hurting their future’

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This story was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education, in partnership with the Huffington Post. Mark Nelson was ready to take a final during his sophomore year at Monrovia High School in Southern California in 2011. Sign up for our newsletter.