Up to 25 Percent of U.S. Colleges May Close Soon
January 23rd, 2026Good.
And this should be done at the high school level:
The initiative seeks to overhaul the university’s general education curriculum, expand access to internships and apprenticeships, and provide students with micro-credentials tied to skills valued by employers.
Via: The College Fix:
Higher education is approaching a period of profound disruption, and many colleges may not survive, Arthur Levine, the newly appointed president of Brandeis University, said during a recent event.
Levine estimated that between 20 and 25 percent of colleges will close in the coming years, while community colleges and regional universities move increasingly online.
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Levine said he is attempting to respond to these issues through his “Brandeis Plan to Reinvent the Liberal Arts.”
The initiative seeks to overhaul the university’s general education curriculum, expand access to internships and apprenticeships, and provide students with micro-credentials tied to skills valued by employers.
“The liberal arts have always been practical,” he said, noting that early American higher education was designed to prepare students for professional and civic leadership. Under the new plan, Brandeis aims to redesign general education to better align with the demands of a global digital economy.
I’d like to see layered qualifications in some fields, e.g. medicine — hospice/nursing assistant > EMT > nurse practitioner/physician’s assistant > physician > surgeon. A specialist in some area would branch off at the appropriate point.
I’d like to see those useless vocational schools that give working-class people a few years of false hope that advertise on The Maury Povich Baby-Mama Drama Hour close up shop on account of a mass realization that they are a huge scam.