The Covid-19 pandemic was the largest news item in US higher
education in 2020 and the beginning of 2021. It certainly had an
effect on higher education enrollment and revenues. But the larger story, according to author Gary
Roth, was that the “College Dream is Over.”
College is supposed to be a transitional space between K-12 education
and good jobs. But savage inequalities in the K-12 pipeline, alienating and sometimes questionably substandard online education, and fewer good jobs
at the end of the pipeline meant that more students would be unprepared for college
and for work life in the brutal tech (fintech, medtech, and edtech) and gig economy.
Banks and big businesses (including brand name universities and for-profit colleges ) were bailed out twice in 2020 by the federal government as student debtors only got temporarily relief.
Savage inequalities in the K-12 pipeline intensified with
online education and the hollowing out of America continued.
Under the Trump administration, privatization, deregulation, and lack of transparency (in gainful employment, defense to repayment,
student loan repayment rate) were the rule. 2021 shows promise for progressive change, but we'll have to wait and see if anything gets done to reduce the College Meltdown.
- The Student Debt Crisis is a Crisis of Non-Repayment (Marshall Steinbaum)
- More people with bachelor’s degrees go back to school to learn skilled trades (John Marcus, Hechinger Report)
- Student Loan Losses Seen Costing U.S. More Than $400 Billion (Josh Mitchell, Wal Street Journal)
- Nearly All States Suffer Declines in Education Jobs (Barb Rosewicz & Mike Maciag, Pew)
- COVID-19 Will Likely Shrink Job Market For College Grads (Government Executive)
- Law student debt averages about $165K at graduation, creating stress and restricting choices, survey says (Debra Cassens Weiss, ABA Journal)
- Higher Ed's Dirty Little Secrets (Steven Mintz, Inside Higher Education)
- Colleges Slash Budgets in the Pandemic, With ‘Nothing Off-Limits’ (Shawn Hubler, NY Times)
- Permamanent Budget Cuts Are Coming (Robert Kelchen, CHE)
- A Separate And Unequal System of College Admissions (Anthony Abraham, NY Times)
- House Democrats Drop Canceling Student Loans (Kery Murakami, IHE)
- College Town Economies Brace for Covid Blow (WSJ)
- 30 college towns that could face economic ruin if schools don't reopen or have to close again this fall (Madison Hoff, Business Insider)
- Laureate Education to Sell Walden University to Adtalem Global Education (Market Watch)
- 'It's going horribly': College towns fret about census count (ABC News)
- Student Loans Plummeted for the Summer Term (Kevin Miller, The Century Foundation)
- University of Arizona Acquires Ashford University (IHE, Lindsay McKenzie)
- The Nightmare That Colleges Face This Fall (Adam Harris, The Atlantic)
- No students. No graduation. ‘Total devastation’ in college towns during coronavirus pandemic (Zoe Nicholson and Ed Semmler,Yahoo Finance)
- University Leaders Are Failing (François Furstenberg, Chronicle of Higher Education)
- The Coming Disruption of Higher Education (New York interview with Scott Galloway)
- Demand for refunds intensifies among college students (Jessica Dickler, CNBC)
- Latest Coronavirus News (Inside Higher Education)
- Coronavirus Pushes Colleges to the Breaking Point, Forcing 'Hard Choices' about Education (Wall Street Journal)
- Adjuncts Barely Getting By (Colleen Flaherty, IHE)
- Students are considering dropping out of college because of coronavirus (Abigail Hess, MSN.com)
- Will Parents Pay? (Scott Jaschik, Inside Higher Ed)
- Masters of None (Grace Gedye, Washington Monthly)
- Public Colleges Face Looming Financial Blow (Kery Murakami, Inside Higher Education)
- With May 1 'Decision Day' Looming, 69 Percent of Parents and 55 Percent of Students Say Coronavirus Has Impacted Their Ability to Pay for College (KPVI)
- ‘I Was Horrified’: For Millions of Borrowers, the Coronavirus Stimulus Law Offers No Relief (Danielle McLean, Chronicle of Higher Education)
- Preparing for a Fall Without In-Person Classes (Doug Lederman, Inside Higher Education)
- Presidents Fear Financial, and Human, Toll of Coronavirus (Doug Lederman, Inside Higher Education)
- Will spring breakers become super-spreaders? (Politico)
- The Real Lesson of the College Closures (Saahil Desai, The Atlantic)
- To Fight Coronavirus, Colleges Sent Students Home. Now Will They Refund Tuition? (Melissa Korn and Douglas Belkin, Wall St. Journal)
- The Covid-19 Crisis Is Widening the Gap Between Secure and Insecure Instructors (Megan Zahneis, Chronicle of Higher Education)
- Moody's lowers higher ed outlook to negative amid coronavirus crisis (Jeremy Bauer-Wolf, Education Dive)
- What Is a College Education in the Time of Coronavirus? (NY Times Opinion)
- Community Colleges and the Coronavirus (Madeline St. Amour, Inside Higher Education)
- California AG sues Betsy DeVos for overturning Obama-era rule aimed at for-profit colleges (Aarthi Swaminathan, Yahoo Finance)
- Coronavirus and Admissions Fears (Scott Jaschick, Inside Higher Education)
- Already stretched universities now face huge endowment losses from market meltdown (PBS, Jon Marcus)
- Uncertain Fate for Support Staff (Lilah Burke, IHE)
- 41% of Recent Grads Work in Jobs Not Requiring a Degree (Inside Higher Education)
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