{"id":97469,"date":"2025-11-19T10:25:45","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T15:25:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=97469"},"modified":"2025-11-19T10:40:24","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T15:40:24","slug":"many-institutions-are-much-closer-to-the-brink-of-closure-than-ever-before-horn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2025\/11\/19\/many-institutions-are-much-closer-to-the-brink-of-closure-than-ever-before-horn\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;&#8230;many institutions are much closer to the brink of closure than ever before.&#8221; [Horn]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/michaelhorn\/2025\/11\/18\/new-study-business-as-usual-could-doom-dozens-of-new-england-colleges\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>New Study: Business As Usual Could Doom Dozens Of New England Colleges<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from forbes.com by Michael B. Horn<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">The cause of the challenges isn\u2019t one single factor, but a series of pressures from demographic changes, shifts in the public\u2019s perception of higher education\u2019s value, rising operating costs, emerging alternatives to traditional colleges, and, of late, changes in federal policies and programs. <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>The net effect is that many institutions are much closer to the brink of closure than ever before.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>What\u2019s daunting is that flat enrollment is almost certainly an overly optimistic scenario.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>If enrollment at the 44 schools falls by 15 percent over the next four years and business proceeds as usual, then 28 of the schools will have less than 10 years of cash and unrestricted quasi-endowments before they would become insolvent\u2014assuming no major cuts, additional philanthropy, new debt, or asset sales. Fourteen would have less than five years before insolvency.<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em>Also see:<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelbhorn.substack.com\/p\/a-looming-crisis-new-analysis-shows\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>A Looming Crisis: New Analysis Shows Dozens of Well-Known Colleges Are Near Financial Trouble<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from michaelbhorn.substack.com by Michael B. Horn and Steven M. Shulman<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #800000;\">From DSC:<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\">The <strong>cultures<\/strong> at many institutions of traditional higher education will make some of the necessary changes and strategies (that Michael and Steven discuss) very hard to make. For example, to merge with another institution or institutions. Such a strategy could be very challenging to implement, even as alternatives continue to emerge.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Study: Business As Usual Could Doom Dozens Of New England Colleges &#8212; from forbes.com by Michael B. Horn The cause of the challenges isn\u2019t one single factor, but a series of pressures from demographic changes, shifts in the public\u2019s perception of higher education\u2019s value, rising operating costs, emerging alternatives to traditional colleges, and, of [&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":[842,61,86,209,127,115,840,159,72,71,36,35,3,7,239,560,480,66,145,321,214],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alternatives","category-business-side-of-he","category-change","category-changing-business-models","category-collaboration","category-colleges","category-culture","category-dangers-of-the-status-quo","category-daniel-s-christian","category-faculty-staff","category-future-of-higher-education","category-game-changing-environment","category-higher-education","category-learning-ecosystem","category-new-business-models","category-parents-guardians","category-society","category-student-related","category-traditional-tradition","category-united-states","category-universities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97469","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=97469"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97474,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97469\/revisions\/97474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}