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

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Nathan Grawe, an economist at Carleton College in Minnesota, predicts that the college-going population will drop by 15 percent between 2025 and 2029 and continue to decline by another percentage point or two thereafter. The dots represent large metropolitan areas, which sometimes diverge from their state’s growth forecasts.

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Redesigning, Reimagining, and Rethinking American Education

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Education is just different than it was pre-pandemic—many school leaders think it shouldn’t go back to the way it was before when schools used systems developed in the 20th century. Currently, AASA is looking for demonstration districts to implement their recommendations and transform education. In order to improve U.S.

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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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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. According to UNESCO, global demand for higher education is expected to grow from 100 million students currently to 250+ million by 2025.

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States use direct mail, money, to get more of their residents back to college

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The push to reach these dropouts by Mississippi and other states, including Indiana and Tennessee, reflects a growing recognition that there just aren’t enough students coming out of U.S. Go Back” campaign in Indiana, among the several states trying to get college dropouts to finish their college educations. Higher Education.

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OPINION: Higher Education needs to get comfortable with trial and error

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Additionally, our members are on track to double their founding goal and graduate 136,000 additional graduates by 2025. Higher education has to get comfortable with trial and error. Taken together, our experiences over the past seven years show that real change is possible in higher education. Sign up for Hechinger’s newsletter.

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OPINION: What if corporate America did more to raise the high school graduation rate?

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AT&T may have committed $450 million since 2008 through its Aspire program to support making education a stronger, data-driven enterprise, but corporate America can play a bigger role, especially in light of numerous recent statements about the need for an educated workforce. Higher Education. Sign up for our newsletter.

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