Jon Marcus, Higher Education Editor for The Hechinger Report: The Trust Factor in Higher Ed

Episode 48 October 18, 2022 00:33:47
Jon Marcus, Higher Education Editor for The Hechinger Report: The Trust Factor in Higher Ed
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Jon Marcus, Higher Education Editor for The Hechinger Report: The Trust Factor in Higher Ed

Oct 18 2022 | 00:33:47

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Show Notes

There’s mounting skepticism about the value of higher education among prospective students and their parents, causing alarm among policymakers on the implications of this trend for the quality of the future U.S. workforce and economy. A continuing sharp decline in college enrollments is perhaps the key proof point, but there are many other symptoms and causes which Futuro Health CEO Van Ton-Quinlivan explores on this episode of WorkforceRx with Jon Marcus, higher education editor for The Hechinger Report. “I'd like to think that, now that enrollment drops have caused an existential crisis, we'll see colleges and universities finally taking steps they should have many years ago to stop hiring, stop building, stop spending, start innovating, and start using technology to work smarter,” says Marcus. There are some innovations he thinks are worth noting, rising in part from a new imperative to collaborate. They include dual admissions programs at 2-year and 4-year institutions and course sharing, which Marcus asserts could be a game changer especially for smaller schools. Don’t miss this deeply-informed scan of how higher ed is responding to a daunting list of challenges including dropout rates, student debt and demographic headwinds, and be sure to stay tuned to learn how a tiny change at one Florida university made a big improvement in retention.

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