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Higher Education is Indeed a Business, the Business of Student Transformation

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Census Bureau, by 2040, the number of Americans age 65 and older is projected to more than double, reaching 80 million. I believe the answer lies in institutions' willingness to make the necessary changes to ensure the relevance of their institutional mission and student experiences to remain relevant in today’s marketplace.

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Another College Just Closed Its Doors. What That Means for Your Institution and the Future of Higher Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Broadly speaking, rather than institutions proactively addressing this “cost of attendance inflation” by reducing their operational costs, the financial livelihoods of students were placed on the back burner, and campus expenses increased while students racked up loans to the tune of $1.727 trillion in total as of the first quarter of 2024.

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Industry and STEMM Leaders Convene for White House Summit

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

D uring the COVID-19 pandemic, Black, Hispanic, and Indigenous students had less contact with teachers and less access to computers with stable internet connections compared to white students, Prabhakar said. For many decades, we've seen very well-intentioned STEM efforts focused on equity and opportunity,” Prabhakar said.

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Redoubling our commitment to climate action and sustainability

John Hopkins University Student Well-Being Blog

This week, we officially released our new Climate Action and Sustainability Plan (CASP), animated by an ambitious new goal to reach net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2040. O’Connor Sustainable Energy Institute and the Institute for Planetary Health.

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Reduce long-term cost growth to rightsize your university

EAB

The number of prospective students will continue to drop after that, permanently falling another 21% by 2100, despite a slight bump in the 2030s. In fact, as the graph below illustrates, EAB predicts that nearly 250 institutions could see their enrollment drop by over half by 2040, based on current long-term trends. decline in the U.S.