Dr. Robert Johnson of Western New England University says the moment of reckoning has come for higher education. Will leaders look to the future or get stuck in the past?
After experiencing more than a year in a pandemic environment, today's high schoolers are more open to education paths other than a four-year college even though they feel pressure to take that path.
Without additional investment by companies, the federal government and states, free college programs will fail to move underserved students into the middle class.
The pandemic accelerated a trend that colleges throughout the U.S. Midwest have been dreading: There are fewer 18-year-olds to fill classrooms, dorms and dining halls.
Women and minorities are not always represented in the decision-making and implementation of on- and off-campus real estate projects. Now is the time to institutionalize diversity, equity and inclusion.
