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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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Universities cut services for a big group of their students: those over 25

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The institute says 95 of 100 campus day care centers surveyed have waiting lists with an average of 82 children. Minnesota, for example, wants 70 percent of its residents to have certificates or degrees by 2025. How student-ready are our colleges?”. Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter.

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Colleges face reckoning as plummeting birthrate worsens enrollment declines

The Hechinger Report

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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Meanwhile, the state has given initial approval for ECOT to become a “dropout school.” Resources , But Grasp Is Surface-Level, Survey Finds.” ” Via Campus Technology : “Survey: Faculty Getting More Confident in Tech Skills , but Students’ Skills Are Slipping.” Rural ones.”