Five Higher Education Trends To Watch For In 2024

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

60% : With the countdown to the new year now over, attention turns to what major developments might be in store for higher education in 2024.
59% : Complete College America is forming a Council on Equitable AI in Higher Education that will represent a diverse group of higher education stakeholders and consult with large technology companies to develop the potential of "using AI to equalize and scale access to a college degree and the accompanying individual, economic, and societal benefits.
58% : Artificial intelligence (AI) will continue to transform almost every aspect of daily life, and higher education will be no exception.
52% : And like last year, the financial crises won't be confined only to small private colleges, regional public universities and two-year schools.
50% : Large, brand-name institutions will feel the crunch as well, exacerbated in some instances by private donor rebellions like those suffered by several universities at the end of 2023.More colleges will come to their financial brink in 2024, leading to an increase in consolidations, closures and declarations of financial exigency, all part of the most serous financial challenge higher education has experienced in decades.
41% : Now, in the wake of the U.S House of Representatives hearing on antisemitism on campus, in which the presidents of MIT, Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania were widely perceived to have testified ineptly, Congress is gearing up to wage an aggressive federal campaign against higher education, particularly elite institutions.
28% : Using rhetoric that's become common among conservative legislators, Crenshaw said, "We can see the utter moral bankruptcy in higher education with the spread of antisemitism on college campuses.

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