Demographic Shifts Will Dramatically Change Student Population

Colleges and universities are anxiously taking steps to address a projected drop in the number of high school graduates in much of the nation starting next year and a dramatic change in the racial and ethnic makeup of the student population, a phenomenon expected to transform the country's higher education landscape. After years of being overwhelmed with applicants, higher education institutions will over the next decade recruit from a pool of markedly different public high school graduates. Read more at:
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