This week I returned to the Atlantic Monthly, courtesy of an interview with the staggeringly metal headline:
Here’s How Higher Education Dies
Many thanks to Adam Harris for good questions and much patience. Adam focused on the question of peak higher ed and explored its ramifications well.
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I’ve been in the Atlantic before, but writing about a somewhat different topic.
It’s a good article and your true voice can be heard in the quotes. As I read about the refocussing/reinvention/re-everything of many, an old saw came to mind. Much 0f higher education is operating like a carpenter with a hammer in hand mistaking every screw as a nail.
Thank you, Michael. Adam did a fine job.
Some context: http://collegeaffordability.blogspot.com/2011/01/charts-of-week-college-enrollment.html
17 million is the same # of students there were circa the early 2000s. That is not “death,” it is reversion to a mean. There was indeed a bubble of students – first, because of the larger cohort of the late millennials, and second, because the recession sent millions of out-of-work adults back to school to re-train.
I work at a community college and we’ve seen a decline, of the bubble. We are still up compared to 10 or 15 years ago. We are down compared 5 years ago. Those institutions that invested in sustainability will be fine. Those that took out debt to expand for the bubble will be in trouble.