Jon Marcus
Higher Education Editor at The Hechinger Report
Writer and Editor at Freelance
Higher education editor, The Hechinger Report @hechingerreport or reach out at [email protected]
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3 days ago |
kiowacountypress.net | Jon Marcus
Click play to listen to an abbreviated version of this article. Emma Bittner considered getting a master’s degree in public health at a nearby university, but the in-person program cost tens of thousands of dollars more than she had hoped to spend. So she checked out master’s degrees she could pursue remotely, on her laptop, which she was sure would be much cheaper. The price for the same degree, online, was … just as much. Or more.
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1 week ago |
hechingerreport.org | Jon Marcus
What if colleges started applying to you instead of the other way around? The anxiety-inducing college admissions game is changing. With declining birth rates and growing skepticism about the value of a degree, higher education is facing an enrollment cliff, set to hit hard in 2026. That’s 18 years after the Great Recession, when many American families stopped having babies.
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1 week ago |
miamiherald.com | Jon Marcus
What if colleges started applying to you instead of the other way around? The anxiety-inducing college admissions game is changing. With declining birth rates and growing skepticism about the value of a degree, higher education is facing an enrollment cliff, set to hit hard in 2026. That's 18 years after the Great Recession, when many American families stopped having babies.
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2 weeks ago |
bostonglobe.com | Jon Marcus
A guide through the most important stories of the morning, delivered Monday through Friday. Eventually the foot traffic starts to pick up. But there’s an uncharacteristic undercurrent of foreboding among these envoys of New England’s once-indomitable higher education industry. On this day, it isn’t Trump administration attacks on diversity programs, transgender athletes, or research funding that has these college representatives apprehensive — all major, ongoing threats.
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2 weeks ago |
charlotteobserver.com | Jon Marcus
RIVER FOREST, Ill. - When she began to check out colleges as a high school student, Jacqueline Quintero noticed something many seemed to have in common. "I don't like saying it, but they all looked so white," said Quintero, whose parents came to the United States from Mexico. "I just didn't feel a sense of belonging."Then she went to a reception for admitted students at Dominican University, near where she grew up in the west Chicago suburbs.
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How the success of universities and colleges may now largely depend on enrolling Hispanic students -- something they have not historically done well. @hechingerreport https://t.co/3FmjVHKm2T
How online classes, which held the promise of making higher education cheaper, have somehow ended up costing the same as or more than in-person college. https://t.co/nVjLotVVIa @hechingerreport
RT @MDRC_News: A looming 'demographic cliff': Fewer college students and ultimately fewer graduates, reports @JonMarcusBoston @hechingerrep…