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Here’s How Higher Education Dies
A futurist says the industry may have nowhere to go but down.
What does the slide look like?
- Adam Harris
- The Atlantic
Maybe higher education has reached its peak.
Not the Harvards and Yales of the world, but the institutions that make up the rest of the industry—the regional public schools who saw decades of growth and are now facing major budget cuts and the smaller, less-selective private colleges that have exorbitant sticker prices while the…
Higher ed is often described as a bubble—and much like the housing market in 2008, the…