The University of Vermont is offering discounts to New England students next fall in an effort to boost enrollment. Meanwhile Middlebury College is expanding its free tuition offers.
The first skill I learned as a professor was how to quiet a room full of chatty undergraduates. These days, I often walk into a silent room, with students staring at their phones and barely acknowledging the classmates beside them.
Last spring, Brown University economics professor Roberto Serrano gave his first take-home midterm. He immediately suspected "massive cheating," because the grade distribution was, in his words, "absurd."
The institutions that will thrive over the next decade won't necessarily be the ones with the biggest international recruitment budgets. They'll be the ones that build trusted global networks.
