EP 901 The Current State of Higher Education

 Most of what we hear lately about higher education relates to the legal battles between the Trump Administration and Harvard, the nation’s oldest university.  And while prior to this the leading issue in the news was student debt and overall affordability of college, there are a number of issues that have come to the fore.  Among them is return on investment as while collar graduates find it more difficult to find jobs given the barreling and hard to imagine impacts of AI, the demographic cliff in which fewer students are coming through the college age cohort and the growing set of choices, not all well vetted, of alternative paths by way of certificate programs offered by all manner of institutions.  Our guest, Mark Schneider a non- resident senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute (aei.org) specializing in higher education administration takes my questions about all of these issues on today’s podcast.

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