Some of the nation’s biggest tech companies have announced efforts to reskill people to avoid job losses caused by artificial intelligence, even as they work to perfect the technology that could eliminate millions of those jobs.
Students are deeply concerned about college costs and the availability of jobs—but even so, more people than ever are interested in higher education. That’s the news from Gallup’s State of Higher Education 2024 report—and the fact that both those can be true says a lot about higher education in these turbulent times.
This could be a challenging year for the 4 million or so people just graduating from college: While most employers say they will maintain or increase hiring, sizeable job cuts elsewhere mean an overall decrease in hiring.
At a time when bachelor’s degrees are more valuable than ever, only about 62 percent of this year’s high school graduates are expected to enroll in college next fall.
An educational view dating back more than a century is getting a fresh look, and that could be the key to rethinking how we approach education and training after high school.
Higher education is in triage mode as it scrambles to lessen the negative impacts from this year’s delayed rollout of the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA).
It might be the most common question college students get. “What’s your major?” While it may be a great conversation starter on campus, the question isn’t all that effective in predicting someone’s job choice—certainly not a full career trajectory.
Amid rising costs and questions about higher education, fewer young people are going to college, and that’s bad for all of us.
Of all the discussions about the cost and price of college, the most important often happen far from the seats of power in Congress and university boardrooms.
