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The Enrollment Cliff: How Technology Can Help Higher Education Confront It

EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

In the past, it was a rite of passage: Students graduated high school and enjoyed a final summer at home before heading out to the next stop on their educational journey. The phenomenon starts with the financial crisis of 2008 and relates… For many, college wasn’t a matter of whether they would attend but where they would go.

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PhotoVoice: Using Technology to Impact Student Learning and Assessment

Faculty Focus

As a faculty member, I often hear the blatant dismissal of students and their preoccupation with technology. How can we help develop ethical leaders, solid communicators, critical thinkers, and diversity-minded, community-engaged students if students in today’s generation are focused so heavily on technology and their phones?

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PhotoVoice: Using Technology to Impact Student Learning and Assessment

Faculty Focus

As a faculty member, I often hear the blatant dismissal of students and their preoccupation with technology. How can we help develop ethical leaders, solid communicators, critical thinkers, and diversity-minded, community-engaged students if students in today’s generation are focused so heavily on technology and their phones?

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A People's History of Higher Education in the US?

Higher Education Inquirer

The History of Higher Education in the US over the last 4 centuries is worse than horrible--from a People's perspective. In 2026 we expect an enrollment cliff to occur, a ripple effect of the 2008 Great Recession. There is a growing educated underclass, people who are working but are not working in areas that they had hoped for.

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Is international education an answer to geopolitical tensions?

The PIE News

“This mainstream acceptance of online education… is forcing institutions to consider new directions” Even before the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, findings from the Strada-Gallup 2017 College Student Survey suggested that the majority of college and university students did not feel ready to start their careers.

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Higher education in London

HEPI

This institution’s position here in London was core to why my student experience was so good, as we got to benefit from studying amidst all the cultural, political and educational institutions situated in the capital. It was led by Peter Hennessy, who is even more famous now – as Lord Hennessy – than he was in the past.

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The 5 subjects proven to give undergrads the best wage premium

University Business

Despite declining higher education enrollment rates beginning in 2010, undergraduate degrees in engineering and computer science are continuing to see substantial growth most likely due to the high lifetime wage earnings they promise, according to a new study published by Sage Journals. ” Researchers analyzed survey data from 5.8