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Posted on 01/21/2026 7:51:59 AM PST by CFW
Higher education is approaching a period of profound disruption, and many colleges may not survive, Arthur Levine, the newly appointed president of Brandeis University, said during a recent event.
Levine estimated that between 20 and 25 percent of colleges will close in the coming years, while community colleges and regional universities move increasingly online.
He made these remarks during a recent American Enterprise Institute event titled “Tackling Higher Education’s Challenges: A Conversation with Frederick M. Hess and Brandeis University President Arthur Levine.”
Wealthier institutions may have the resources to withstand the transition, but many others do not. Levine said that elite schools, such as Harvard, can afford to wait out disruptions, while smaller institutions face immediate pressure to adapt.
“Higher education is undergoing a transformation. Our whole society is undergoing a transformation,” Levine said, pointing to the shift from a national, industrial economy to a global, digital, knowledge-based one.
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A key component of the proposal is a shift toward competency-based education that measures students’ skills and knowledge instead of relying solely on grades.
Levine acknowledged the difficulty of the transition, saying that universities will not immediately agree on what constitutes competency, or even how it should be evaluated
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At least 50% of colleges SHOULD close and I'm being conservative with that number.
Death by DEI, Wokeness, and Marxism.
We could close 90% of all colleges and things would be much betterer!
Like all bubbles, it was funded by massive debt, in printed money, with government assistance.
Time for it to POP
Good start. Faster please.
Well past time to realize a good education in today’s society is in no way linked to college attendance.
+1
It’s about time!
America is way too top-heavy with ‘educators’.
I am sure a large number of colleges are superfluous and unnecessary to the educational needs of the country. As enrollments have been steadily dropping, it only makes sense that the weaker ones will go out of business. Whether this will be net positive or not, idk; but I doubt it will be a catastrophe.
I’m with ya. Stop all government loans for it, too.
I don’t see how this is bad news - and it solves the problem of insurrections at Unis perpetrated by pretend revolutionaries and other assorted lefties.
Maybe now more kids will go into the trades and not saddle themselves with hundreds of thousands of dollars of debt.
Education today is hands down the biggest threat to this nation. Every year 8 to 10 million students graduate High School and College and a huge amount are indoctrinated, brainwashed into leftist insanity which is why we constantly see all these protests with the majority of them made up of young adults. These graduates end up EVERYWHERE in every industry, career, you name it with the worst being politics and justice where they are literally domestic enemies of the USA who are against everything this country stands for and do everything they can to destroy it. The entire system of education today needs to be fumigated from top to bottom. We don’t need any more AOCs
With the internet and mobile phones, they can be recruited directly.
“better-er”
My junior-high school English Teacher, Sister Mary Richards, would have shrieked, then literally thrown a book at me in class for using that kind of diction. She would have (most likely) missed my head, and the class would have had a good chuckle.
> Up to 25 percent of U.S. colleges may close soon <
And then reopen them as trade schools. We don’t need any more English Lit majors.
But we sure do need more carpenters, plumbers, electricians, etc.
Taxpayers alone funnel 450 Billion annually to these liberal indoctrination centers. Billions more for student loans and other gimmees.
Shutting down the grift is a good idea.
Agreed. Of course, I’d be happy if some colleges that survive actually provide a valuable education.
Let me guess.... Father Lou Grant was the principal.
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