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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. A report by the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia highlights troubling trends, including a 15% enrollment drop projected between 2025 and 2029.

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Danish minister calls for international student u-turn amid labour shortages

The PIE News

In 2021, Denmark’s Social Democrats and several other parties entered into an agreement to reduce the number of courses offered in English at higher education institutions, after concerns that spending on foreign students was getting “out of control”. She stopped short of indicating how many places should be opened.

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TU Dresden and KCL transCampus aims to widen

The PIE News

“Our two excellent universities [work together] in a complementary way, we bring together expertise and we are connecting in the future much more engineering science in to these topics… We combine basic research, big technology transfer in order to develop systems for a digital world.”

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

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Following her retirement as president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in July 2022, Jackson continued to have an impact on academia, industry, and public service. The assistant principal for boys suggested she apply to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). regrettably, the award ceremony was cancelled in 2009.

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What is a ‘research culture’?

SRHE

An institution may choose to add research to the contracts of its own academics. Funding for an institutional ‘research culture’ goes beyond higher education providers Taxpayer-funding for universities began to be allocated by the academic-led University Grants Committee (UGC) from 1919.