Economics and Change in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Despite high profile stories about the closing of small liberal arts colleges, such as California’s Mills College and Vermont’s Green Mountain College, college closures have actually declined in the past five years. For-profit operators ran more than 80 percent of the 861 institutions that ceased operations between 2004 and 2021.

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University Business

MARCH 7, 2023

In November, The Hechinger Report found 861 colleges had closed since 2004. Finlandia University was the last remaining higher education institution in North America to be founded by Finnish settlers. Finlandia University is the latest school from a growing list this academic year to close its doors.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 14, 2022

In higher education, many faculty report a decline in student focus and study skills, as well as patterns of poor attendance, late assignments and low grades. At the height of the pandemic, many faculty relaxed their expectations for the quantity and quality of student work.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 21, 2023

Over all, they described “similar numbers of growing and failing programs” and suggested that lowering the failure rate “would be a huge step forward for higher education.” percent failure rate for 156 new programs in the liberal arts and sciences, general studies, and humanities.

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HEPI

JULY 23, 2024

Her article explores the evolving value of degrees in English higher education, focusing on the competence of degree-granting institutions and the implications of recent changes in degree-awarding powers. The ‘trade’ of Oxford and Cambridge as corporations lay in the study of the artes , the ‘liberal arts’.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Image: When Patricia McGuire, president of Trinity Washington University, was speaking at a conference on Catholic higher education last month, she referred to the university, a women’s institution in Washington, D.C., Trinity’s College of Arts & Sciences, the institution’s largest program, remains all women.)

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Higher Education Inquirer

JANUARY 6, 2025

Academia Next: The Futures of Higher Education. Johns Hopkins University Press. : A Former United States Secretary of Education and a Liberal Arts Graduate Expose the Broken Promise of Higher Education. The Great Training Robbery: Education and Jobs." Books Alexander, Bryan (2020).

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