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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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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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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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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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DEBT WITHOUT DEGREE: The human cost of college debt that becomes “purgatory”

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You’re in purgatory,” said Nicole Smith, vice president of Georgetown University’s Center on Education and the Workforce. By 2025, more than 60 percent of Georgia jobs will require some kind of post-secondary education, and now only 45 percent of the state’s young adults meet that criterion.

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Minnesota has a persistent higher-ed gap: Are new efforts making a difference?

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Minnesota ranks among the most educated states in the country, with nearly half of adults aged 25 to 64 holding an associate degree or higher. He estimated that nearly one in three new jobs created through 2026 will require education beyond high school. Will jobs go begging? Our future economic vitality depends on this.”.

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