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Youngkin seeks to defund New College Institute in 2026 fiscal year - Monique Holland, Martinsville Bulletin

Economics and Change in Higher Education

Amid efforts to rehabilitate the New College Institute, Gov. million for the institute in the 2025 fiscal year but zero in fiscal year 2026. Glenn Youngkin this week proposed eliminating NCI’s funding in the second year of the two-year state budget. Youngkin’s plan would allocate $4.69

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Can Technology Help Community Colleges Avoid the Enrollment Cliff?

EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

A defining moment for higher education in this country lurks just around the corner. The supply of college-eligible students may never recover — at least not for the next two decades or until birth rates rebound to levels not seen since the turn of the century — so the stakes for how institutions respond could not be higher.

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Baby Boomers Turning 80: The Flip Side of the 2026 Enrollment Cliff (#medugrift)

Higher Education Inquirer

While COVID eliminated hundreds of thousands of older Americans from the dependency rolls, higher education experts have not expressed the profound effect that the Baby Boomers reaching their 80s will have on state budgets. In 2026, the year we expect an enrollment cliff, the first Boomers will turn 80.

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Never Ending US Higher Ed Enrollment Decline

Higher Education Inquirer

US higher education enrollment has been declining slowly and consistently since 2011. The declines have been small enough for many people outside of higher education to miss this phenomenon. In 2026 and 2027 we expect a more significant drop: a result of declining fertility rates during the 2008-2009 recession.

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College Revives Standardized Test Requirement

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Dartmouth College plans to reinstate the standardized test requirement for applicants to the Class of 2029 and beyond, reports The Dartmouth. Dartmouth applicants will be required to take and submit scores from the SAT or ACT college entrance exams. Bruce Sacerdote, Dr. Douglas Staiger and sociology professor Dr. Michele Tine.

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TWO Demographic Cliffs? The Enrollment Case for Diversifying Revenue Streams

Helix Education

But, as I was working on this, I read a story in the Chronicle of Higher Education buried by all the coverage of the FAFSA fiasco that alarmed me. Sources: Actual and Projected College Freshmen: Digest of Education Statistics 2016, 2020, 2022. By the Numbers: Net New 18-Year-Olds Percent Change 2026-30: -329,907 -7.3%

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It’s a wrap! What did we learn about the best way to fund higher education from our UK tour – in London, Belfast, Edinburgh and Cardiff?

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Travelling to and from these major UK cities within such a short space of time, with an additional trip for me to a brilliant Higher Education Authority conference at Dublin’s Croke Park stadium in between, is the closest I will ever get as a think-tank director to feeling like a rock star on tour.