{"id":90986,"date":"2024-03-13T12:04:51","date_gmt":"2024-03-13T16:04:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=90986"},"modified":"2024-03-13T12:32:59","modified_gmt":"2024-03-13T16:32:59","slug":"doubts-about-value-are-deterring-college-enrollment-blake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2024\/03\/13\/doubts-about-value-are-deterring-college-enrollment-blake\/","title":{"rendered":"Doubts About Value Are Deterring College Enrollment [Blake]"},"content":{"rendered":"

Doubts About Value Are Deterring College Enrollment<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0— from insidehighered.com by Jessica Blake
\nSurvey data suggests that prospective learners are being dissuaded from college by skepticism about whether degrees are worth the time and money.<\/em><\/p>\n

Enrollment has been declining in higher education for more than a decade, and the most common explanations in recent years have been lingering effects of the pandemic and a looming demographic cliff expected to shrink the number of traditional-age college students. But new research<\/a> suggests that public doubts about the value of a college degree are a key contributor.<\/p>\n

The study\u2014conducted by Edge Research, a marketing research firm, and HCM Strategists, a public policy and advocacy consulting firm with funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation\u2014uses focus groups and parallel national surveys of current high school students and of adults who decided to leave college or who didn\u2019t go at all to link the value proposition of a college degree and Americans\u2019 behaviors after high school.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt the end of the day, higher education has a lot of work to do to convince these audiences of its value,\u201d said Terrell Dunn, an HCM consultant.<\/p>\n

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\u2018A Condemnation\u2019: Under Mental Health Strains, Students Weigh Quitting College<\/strong><\/a> — from edsurge.com by Daniel Mollenkamp<\/p>\n

When college students think about quitting, it\u2019s most likely because of mental health strain or stress.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s according to the recent data from the \u201cState of Higher Education Study<\/a>,\u201d conducted by the analytics company Gallup and the private foundation Lumina.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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