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Lumina Releases New Long-Term Goal and Strategic Plan for Higher Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

That goal is by 2040, 75% of working-age adults (25 to 64) in the U.S. Dr. Courtney Brown To reach the 2040 goal, Lumina is prioritizing four key areas: credentials of value, access, student success and redesign. We had to rethink how education creates opportunities.

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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

As for 2024, in April, the University of Saint Katherine and Wells College in Aurora announced they would be closing their doors. According to EAB analysis, by 2040, 566 colleges are expected to see a 25% decline, and 247 are expected to see a 50% decline. The number of Americans 65 and older is projected to more than double by 2040.

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

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

universities and colleges were founded before 1900. Census Bureau, by 2040, the number of Americans age 65 and older is projected to more than double, reaching 80 million. Dr. Mordecai Ian Brownlee According to researchers Claudia Goldin and Lawrence F. Katz, almost all of today’s noteworthy U.S. For one, America is aging rapidly.

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Industry and STEMM Leaders Convene for White House Summit

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

These 10 include the likes of American Institutes for Research (AIR), Jobs for the Future (JFF), Morgan State University, and Spelman College. James Martin, vice chancellor for STEM research and innovation at the University of Pittsburgh. According to the strategy, the U.S. According to the strategy, the U.S.

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Reduce long-term cost growth to rightsize your university

EAB

Blogs Reduce long-term cost growth to rightsize your university Higher ed's budget woes are becoming harder to ignore. 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. The cost of running a college spiked 5.2%

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Redoubling our commitment to climate action and sustainability

John Hopkins University Student Well-Being Blog

Since then, we have made significant progress—from hitting our ambitious 2025 goal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 51% three years early, to initiating the largest investment in solar power of any single university in the country at the time of our signing, to launching bold interdisciplinary initiatives like the Ralph S.