A multibillion-dollar industry is coming up with new ways to find and sell to colleges not just the addresses and high school GPAs of prospective students but the financial circumstances of their parents, writes @JonMarcusBoston in #CollegeTown. trib.al/jR4ZXQb

Few issues in higher education rile up readers as much as administrative bloat. Now there are clues it may be starting to reverse. @hechingerreport tinyurl.com/3v8nv8ym

"It’s a place where you do have a meaningful relationship with your faculty members. But you also take out your own trash." How some innovators are reinventing college. tinyurl.com/mus29pdc

.@hechingerreport's Jon Marcus (@JonMarcusBoston) joins us to discuss the quality of higher education institutions in the U.S.

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High costs, political attacks take a toll as fewer students come, top scholars leave.

Once globally preeminent, U.S. universities are sliding into decline, @JonMarcusBoston of @hechingerreport writes.

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As a new academic year begins, data and international rankings show that one of America's globally preeminent industries — higher education — is now incontrovertibly in decline. tinyurl.com/d2287tzc

A conversation with USA Today about colleges closing. youtube.com/watch?v=GXfxl7…

Facing political attack and falling enrollment, colleges take the fight to … each other.

@JonMarcusBoston of @hechingerreport on how competition is intensifying among schools and recruiters for a dwindling pool of students.

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Under political attack and facing enrollment declines, colleges and universities are taking the fight to ... each other. tinyurl.com/3pw242dc

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How long-sought, bipartisan reforms to higher education have actually emerged, even as the sector is under political attack. tinyurl.com/36jkubfh

“Everyone is on board to make it less complicated." How, in an era of falling enrollment, once-intimidating admissions officers are making sure accepted students have what they need to actually show up. tinyurl.com/mr3ceava @hechingerreport

After suffering largely in silence through funding cuts and culture wars attacks, higher education is slowly trying to reclaim the narrative. shorturl.at/V4d7v @hechingerreport

You can see it when you take your pets to the vet or your kids to the dentist, need a lawyer or an eye exam, see a therapist or pick up a prescription: Women now outnumber men in study toward all of these fields. @hechingerreport tinyurl.com/353buc94

"The idea of males, including white males, being at the short end of the stick all of a sudden would be a truly ironic outcome.” How a Trump administration anti-DEI policy threatens an advantage in college admission for men. tinyurl.com/4325d3e6 @hechingerreport

The U.S. isn't the only place where international students are facing pushback. tinyurl.com/2pcj6d98

"I’ve always worried about Massachusetts being a little too complacent about our position in the academic world." The world of pain headed for Boston as a result of pushback against international college students. tinyurl.com/48syhs7n

More than half of colleges that have closed since 2020 were religiously affiliated, which are among the institutions most imperiled by enrollment and financial challenges. tinyurl.com/5ax3pr3e @hechingerreport

"We're kind of on an island where we only have the community college." How community colleges are adding four-year bachelor's degrees to fill rural higher education deserts. tinyurl.com/yc5awvy3 @hechingerreport

How the success of universities and colleges may now largely depend on enrolling Hispanic students -- something they have not historically done well. @hechingerreport tinyurl.com/bddajswy