Today's "new majority" of students brings diverse life experiences, responsibilities and needs to campus, says new report. Supporting these students is essential for colleges that want to adapt.
Nearly 38 million working-age Americans have attended college without earning a degree, according to the National Student Clearinghouse. As the number of high school graduates declines, bringing these learners back has become a growing priority for colleges.
Recommitting to the humanities is not nostalgic: it is strategic. Students need both practical skills and deeper intellectual grounding to navigate an uncertain world.
Regenerative leadership can transition leaders from states of exhaustion to strategic alignment, and from reactive governance to future-oriented imagination.
Non-selective schools heavily reliant on international enrollment and already under financial stress could slide into "negative territory," according to Moody's Ratings.
Instead of the existing flat 1.4% tax rate, there is now a new multi-tiered rate of up to 8%, with larger endowments subject to the highest rate. The Joint Committee on Taxation estimates this endowment tax will bring in $761 million over 10 years.
More Northeastern teens are heading to the South for large state schools, with LSU seeing a nearly 500% increase in attendance from students in the Northeast between 2014 and 2023, an Axios data analysis shows.
Over 700,000 certificates and associate's degrees will go un-earned every year until 2032, curbing American workers from maximizing their annual earnings, according to Georgetown University.
The move is part of a broader strategy by the Burlington-based school to design a new "career-focused" curriculum for the fall of 2026 "that is focused on and driven by employer needs and student interests," according to a fact sheet provided to VTDigger by the college.
