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PROOF POINTS: 861 colleges and 9,499 campuses have closed down since 2004

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birth rates soon translate into fewer graduating high schoolers after 2025. Thirty-five colleges and universities shut down in 2021, a 70 percent decrease from 2016, when a peak of 120 colleges shuttered, according to an analysis of federal data by the State Higher Education Executive Officers Association (SHEEO). First, the numbers.

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HE Challenges: Fast changing digital teaching methods

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According to UNESCO, global demand for higher education is expected to grow from 100 million students currently to 250+ million by 2025. In the last on our series about the challenges in higher education, we will examine how universities and colleges are managing the fast pace of change in teaching methods and curricula.

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Colleges are using big data to track students in an effort to boost graduation rates, but it comes at a cost

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For an absurd example, if dropouts tended to take classes on Thursdays in their first semester at college, but students who completed their degrees didn’t, then you might worry about current students who are currently taking classes on Thursdays. The dropout problem got a lot worse in the 1990s when more people started attending college.

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Temple University is spending millions to get more students through college, but is there a cheaper way?

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With the number of well-paying jobs open to those without college degrees becoming scarcer by the day, policymakers have adopted an ambitious goal to increase the number of Americans with college credentials to 60 percent by 2025. As of 2016, that rate stood at just 45 percent. Subscribe to our Higher Ed newsletter.

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The mindboggling barriers that colleges create — and that end up hurting their own students

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“I think the majority of higher education is complacent” about their dropouts, he said. Policymakers and politicians want 60 percent of the population to have higher-education certificates and degrees by 2025, up from 45 percent now , but progress toward that goal is behind schedule.

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Colleges face reckoning as plummeting birthrate worsens enrollment declines

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Because people had fewer children during the last recession in 2008, the number of 18-year-olds graduating from high school is expected to fall again nationally after 2025 by 11 to 15 percent, according to estimates by the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education , or WICHE, and Carleton College economist Nathan Grawe.

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