Education

Why is the higher education sector so fragile in the US?

From Higher Ed Dive: “What makes our higher education system more fragile than the situation faced by other Western nations is that the U.S. has, proportionally, many more small and private institutions. Small institutions in the U.S. — defined as those with under 5,000 students — accounted for 75% of all degree-granting colleges eligible for Title IV federal financial aid in fall 2021. … The structure of much of the higher education sector in the U.S. — private, intimate, locally-focused, and small — is rapidly becoming unable to address the demographics and economic challenges of the future.”

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