Showing posts with label college meltdown. Show all posts
Showing posts with label college meltdown. Show all posts
Thursday, January 1, 2026

Forecasting the U.S. College Meltdown: How Higher Education Inquirer’s 2016 Warnings Played Out, 2016–2025 (Glen McGhee)

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In December 2016, the Higher Education Inquirer published a set of 18 predictions warning of an ongoing “U.S. College Meltdown.” At the ti...

College Meltdown 2026 (Glen McGhee)

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As the United States moves deeper into the 2020s, the  College Meltdown is no longer a speculative concept but a structural reality. The cr...
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Monday, December 15, 2025

The Five Pillars of the College Meltdown

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Demographics The first pillar of the College Meltdown is demographic decline. Following the Great Recession, U.S. birthrates dropped sharply...
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Tuesday, December 9, 2025

Preston Cooper Is Wrong: Enrollment Is Only One of Higher Education’s Many Crises

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In a recent American Enterprise Institute article, Preston Cooper insists that the post-2010 collapse in college enrollment is “a correction...
Saturday, December 6, 2025

HEI 2025: Over 1.4 Million Annual Page Views From Readers Across the Globe

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Over 1.4 million page views from readers across the globe in 2025 reveal a simple but terrifying truth: the promise of a college degree is ...
Thursday, December 4, 2025

Hyper-Deregulation and the College Meltdown

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In March 2025, Studio Enterprise—the online program manager behind South University —published an article titled “A New Era for Higher Educa...
Tuesday, December 2, 2025

College Mania: The Spell is (Almost) Broken, But Hyper-Credentialism Remains

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For decades, America was gripped by college mania , a culturally and structurally manufactured frenzy that elevated higher education to near...
Tuesday, November 25, 2025

The College Meltdown: Pruning in Chernobyl

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Since the fallout of Occupy Wall Street in 2011, a small but persistent movement has sought to expose the widening inequities and systemic f...
Monday, November 17, 2025

Neoliberalism and the Global College Meltdown

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Over the past four decades, neoliberalism has reshaped higher education into a market-driven enterprise, producing what can only be describe...
Thursday, November 13, 2025

The College Meltdown Index: Profiting from the Wreckage of American Higher Education

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“Education, once defended as a public good, now functions as a vehicle for private gain.” From Collapse to Contagion The College Meltd...
Wednesday, September 3, 2025

The Minimum Viable Education System: How Close Are We to Collapse? (Glen McGhee)

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For years, higher education leaders have avoided one of the most uncomfortable questions in the field: What is the minimum threshold of auth...
Wednesday, August 20, 2025

College Meltdown Fall 2025

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The Fall 2025 semester begins under intensifying pressure in U.S. higher education. Institutions are responding to long-term changes in enro...