Is Academia in a Doom Spiral?

Lower birthrates during the Great Recession will result in fewer college-age students starting in 2025, threatening tuition-dependent private colleges.

As the U.S. economy improves, more high school graduates are choosing work over college. Just under 66 percent of the class of 2013 was enrolled in college last…

Compared to older state universities, Mason receives the least funding per-student than any other public doctoral institution in Virginia. As less and less of Mason’s budget is supported by state funds, questions are raised about how the Commonwealth supports higher education. As Mason continues ...

Spending is down by $9 billion over the last decade, driving tuition up and frustrating the search for skilled workers.

Teens coming of age in the pandemic era are shunning college in record numbers. Many aren't working, either. The future looks rough.

Over three-quarters of parents believe college is worth paying for, even though tuition has ballooned by over 38% in the past two decades.

With 20% of Harvard's first-year class deferring this fall, it raises questions and opportunities for higher education's future.

You probably don’t even know that Wells College is closing. The tiny institution in the Finger Lakes region of upstate New York caught a lot of people by surprise in announcing its closure in April…

Some 80 institutions of higher learning could close by 2029, even as elite Ivy League and Ivy-Plus schools like Yale and MIT thrive.

Students from rural and disadvantaged areas disproportionally affected by subject cuts, British Academy warns

Survey by American Association of Professors shows nearly quarter of respondents are switching due to states’s politics

University of Texas at Austin faculty fear changes from new taskforce that could restructure humanities programs

Established in 1984 to encourage women and minority Ph.D.s to pursue academia, the program has attracted right-wing criticism for prioritizing diverse candidates.

This story was updated on Dec. 4 at 5:45 p.m. More than 20 academic programs will be cut or paused next year, according to information shared with faculty in an email from the provost’s office sent Nov. 25. The programs, predominantly at the New School for Social Research (NSSR) and Eugene Lang College of Liberal […]

The University of Nebraska-Lincoln eliminates the Earth and atmospheric sciences 8-0, educational administration 7-1, statistics 7-1, textiles, merchandising and fashion design 7-1 programs.

The review of low-enrollment programs at the University of Connecticut has resulted in seven program closures, and 70 will be monitored in the new school year.

Years of cuts in state funding for public colleges and universities have driven up tuition and harmed students’ educational experiences by forcing faculty reductions, fewer course offerings, and campus closings. 

A new federal suit alleging antitrust violations adds to continuing efforts to change college admissions practices.

Former students are suing some of the country’s biggest and most prestigious schools over financial aid for students. Five former students say universities like Yale, Brown, Columbia, and many more are giving priority to kids of wealthy donors.

By many measures, the elite Manhattan school is the worst or among the worst for families and graduate students drowning in debt. “It feels like I’m kind of trapped,” says a grad who has sold her eggs to help make ends meet.

Some doctoral programmes are admitting no students at all amid uncertainty about federal science funding.

Signs of a decline in international students have unsettled colleges around the U.S., but some schools are especially vulnerable.

The student population got smaller and smaller while fancy new buildings appeared.

Interim President Mike Smith’s recommendations — which include cutting degrees in forestry, music and school psychology — come after a task force spent several months gathering data and information on the university’s academic programs.

The closure comes following a precipitous decline in enrollment and a severe cash flow problem that had been building over time, according to Walk.

The University of Missouri says two residence halls already scheduled for demolition will not be used this fall because of declining enrollment.

The city’s only four-year public university has spent the past decade stumbling from one crisis to the next. Getting Temple on the right path is crucial to the city’s future.

Universities are caught in a privatization trap that they built themselves and that will be difficult to take apart, argues Christopher Newfield.

The corporatization of higher education has rendered a once-indispensable part of student life irrelevant, right when it’s needed the most.