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

The Hechinger Report

birth rates soon translate into fewer graduating high schoolers after 2025. It shut down four campuses after it purchased for-profit Kaplan University in 2018 and converted it to a public four-year university called Purdue Global. But the numbers may spike again as declining U.S. First, the numbers.

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

The Hechinger Report

Nancy Lee Sanchez, in red, executive director of the Kaplan Educational Foundation, with students she advises. I think the majority of higher education is complacent” about their dropouts, he said. Sanchez is one of the increasing number of outside coaches finding surprising obstacles that colleges put up in front of students.

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