Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 21, 2025

Rice University has unveiled plans for unprecedented enrollment growth, aiming to increase its student population by approximately 30% by 2028 compared to 2020 levels, university officials announced Monday. Graduate programs, which have already grown 18% since 2020, are also seeing record application numbers, with U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Dartmouth College plans to reinstate the standardized test requirement for applicants to the Class of 2029 and beyond, reports The Dartmouth. Dartmouth applicants will be required to take and submit scores from the SAT or ACT college entrance exams.

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JANUARY 26, 2023

Applying to more colleges: In 2021, the average number of college applications submitted by new college freshmen rose to 7 from 6 applications the year before. By 2028, six million less working aged adults will be in the workforce, causing more competition for talent across all sectors, not just higher education.

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MARCH 24, 2023

For starters, there will be a predicted six-million-person deficit between labor supply and demand by 2028. Institutions therefore must begin planning and investing in their talent strategy and infrastructure now if they are going to be able to compete in the future.

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