Despite The Predictions Traditional Higher Education Has A Strong Future

Higher education as we know it is about to come to an end. After all, there are no jobs for college graduates, certainly not for liberal arts students. Moreover, even were such students employable, they come out of school so burdened with debt that they will never dig their way out.  As college presidents who hear such proclamations over and over again, we find ourselves suppressing the urge to yawn. We take comfort in the fact that for more than a century predictions about the impending demise of classic higher education have met the same fate: They have been utterly wrong. Read more at:
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