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College Is Coming Apart After Successive Overlapping Crises

Original: College Is Coming Apart After Successive, Overlapping Crises

An Atlantic essay argues that American higher education is unraveling under a stack of simultaneous pressures: enrollment declines, questions about the value of a degree, political attacks on universities, and now artificial intelligence disrupting the skills colleges teach. Commentators are debating whether colleges can adapt or whether the traditional four-year model is permanently losing its place as the default path after high school.

Why now: AI's impact on the value of degrees plus tuition and trust concerns have reignited debate over the future of universities

The AtlanticAmerican higher educationartificial intelligence

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