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Higher Education Faces Challenges: Rising Costs, Declining Enrollment, and Equity Issues

Insight Into Diversity

The higher education landscape in the United States is undergoing a seismic shift, with as many as 80 colleges and universities predicted to close by 2029. Financial struggles stemming from declining enrollment, skyrocketing tuition costs, and doubts about the value of a degree are at the heart of this crisis.

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Billion-Dollar Gift Broadens Access to Johns Hopkins

Insight Into Diversity

Beginning this fall, Johns Hopkins will use the funds to launch a scholarship program covering full tuition for medical students from families earning under $300,000 annually, with additional support for living expenses and fees for students from families earning $175,000 or less.

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What can private institutions do about the middle-class squeeze?

University Business

Colby College in Maine has promised the Class of 2029 that middle-class students who enroll will find their private liberal arts degree more affordable than many in-state public institutions. The concerns ICAS aired extend to the persistent issues low-income students put up with in pursuing a four-year degree.

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Mapping the Legacy of RPI's First African American Woman Leader

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

After earning her bachelor’s degree, Jackson became the first African American woman to receive a doctorate at MIT. There have been curriculum advances, increased scholarships, growth in undergraduate research and innovations in student life. Jackson did that by co-founding the Black Student Union.

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What is a ‘research culture’?

SRHE

The award of doctorates in Divinity had ceased to depend on advanced scholarship, and had often became more or less honorific as new Bishops began to be granted an automatic Doctorate of Divinity. Vacancies’ for academic jobs commonly express a preference for a candidate to have a postgraduate degree but do not require it.

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How 2 of higher ed’s most challenging trends are causing pain this fall

University Business

As higher education enrollment dips, the proportion of state jobs requiring degrees remains the same: 70% of them will require a credential beyond a high school certificate in 2024 and 2029, according to the Union-Bulletin. Between 2010 and 2019, higher education enrollment dropped by almost 25%, according to News Center 1.

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Mission: Possible – how universities can reach their institutional ambitions

The PIE News

The enrolment cliff projecting a 15% decline in US college students between 2025 and 2029 only exacerbates this further. Loughborough University, placed overall joint 224 th in QS World University Rankings 2025, has become synonymous with the best quality sports degrees.