{"id":96859,"date":"2025-09-29T08:25:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T12:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=96859"},"modified":"2025-09-29T16:03:32","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T20:03:32","slug":"what-todays-students-really-want-and-what-that-means-for-higher-ed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2025\/09\/29\/what-todays-students-really-want-and-what-that-means-for-higher-ed\/","title":{"rendered":"What today\u2019s students really want \u2014 and what that means for higher ed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.highereddive.com\/spons\/what-todays-students-really-want-and-what-that-means-for-higher-ed\/760404\/\"><strong>What today\u2019s students really want \u2014 and what that means for higher ed<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0&#8212; from highereddive.com by Ellucian<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Cost is too high. Pathways are unclear. Options feel limited.\u00a0<\/strong>For many prospective, current, or former students, these barriers define their relationship with higher education. As colleges and universities face the long-anticipated enrollment cliff, the question isn\u2019t just how to recruit\u2014it\u2019s how to reimagine value, access, and engagement across the entire student journey.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Ellucian\u2019s 2025 Student Voice Report offers one of the most comprehensive views into that journey to date. With responses from over 1,500 learners across the U.S.\u2014including high school students, current undergrads, college grads, stop-outs, and opt-outs\u2014the findings surface one clear mandate for institutions: meet students where they are, or risk losing them entirely.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">What Are Learners Asking For?<\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Across demographics, four priorities rose to the top:<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Affordability. Flexibility. Relevance. Clarity.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Students aren\u2019t rejecting education\u2014they\u2019re rejecting systems that don\u2019t clearly show how their investment leads to real outcomes.\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What today\u2019s students really want \u2014 and what that means for higher ed\u00a0&#8212; from highereddive.com by Ellucian Cost is too high. Pathways are unclear. Options feel limited.\u00a0For many prospective, current, or former students, these barriers define their relationship with higher education. As colleges and universities face the long-anticipated enrollment cliff, the question isn\u2019t just how [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[113,61,174,86,209,115,302,57,324,71,35,178,3,119,102,7,838,228,199,560,279,486,436,480,310,66,212,50,206,321,214,312,367,299,445],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-21st-century","category-business-side-of-he","category-career-development","category-change","category-changing-business-models","category-colleges","category-community-colleges","category-cost-of-getting-a-degree","category-curriculum","category-faculty-staff","category-game-changing-environment","category-generational-differences","category-higher-education","category-instructional-design","category-learning","category-learning-ecosystem","category-learning-experience-design","category-learning-preferences","category-more-voice-more-choice-more-control","category-parents-guardians","category-participation","category-real-world-assignments","category-reinvent","category-society","category-staying-relevant","category-student-related","category-surviving","category-teaching-learning","category-trends","category-united-states","category-universities","category-user-experience-ux","category-vendors","category-workplace","category-youth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96859"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96878,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96859\/revisions\/96878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}