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

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Demand for workers in solar is expected to nearly double by 2030, according to an industry census. The number of workers needed in the offshore wind energy industry will also nearly double, by 2025 , to 589,000, and increase to 868,000 by 2030, the consulting firm Rystad Energy estimates.

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Progress in getting underrepresented people into college and skilled jobs may be stalling because of the pandemic

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Experts say that this means dropout rates, which had been declining for more than a decade, will likely start to rise again. Like the Rio Grande Valley, for example, Nashville had been seeing gains in high school graduation and college-going rates. “We Access to talent is their number-one competitive priority.”.

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Colleges face a new reality, as the number of high schools graduates will decline

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The Asian-American and Pacific Islander student body is set to increase by 30 percent from 2013 to the early 2030s, reaching nearly 60,000 graduates. The number of whites is slated to decline by 14 percent between 2013 and 2030. But there are fewer and fewer of those students as a percentage of the total.”

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British universities reach out to the new minority: poor white males

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By the time they’re 11, researchers observe, these boys feel little motivation to work hard in school, with few examples in their lives of men who went to college, and little hope they can afford what seem to them to be unaffordable fees. In the U.S., Related: Colleges confront the simple math that keeps students from graduating on time.

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How higher education lost its shine

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Samantha Gutter is chief access and outreach officer at the Tennessee Higher Education Commission, which surveyed high school seniors about college and found that they were reluctant to go into debt. billion worth of federal loans borrowed by students of the defunct for-profit Corinthian Colleges, for example.

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In one country, women now outnumber men in college by two to one

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It’s a crazy cycle,” said Adrian Huerta, an assistant professor of education at the University of Southern California who focuses on college access and gender. “We It’s about equal access for everyone. To discourage dropouts, the length of high school was shortened from four years to three, though the effect of this has been mixed.

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Is California saving higher education?

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It’s one example of the many ways that California is taking on seemingly intractable problems that are plaguing higher education nationwide. The goal, writes historian John Aubrey Douglass, was “broad access combined with the development of high quality, mission differentiated, and affordable higher education institutions.”.