What’s next for college in the U.S.?
In my current role, I spend a lot of time thinking about the college and university space here in the US. And recently, I wrote up my thoughts on the gathering storm in the American higher-ed market.
In February of this past year, the older of my two kids turned eight years old.
And as I think ahead and begin to imagine what the summer before her senior year of high school will look like, I have a hard time seeing us touring the archetypal brick and ivy covered college campuses, thumbing through catalogs of majors, and plopping down $60,000 per year in tuition so she can select a major that may well decide the course of her life thereafter.
Which, by the way, statistically speaking, has a rather poor chance of going well anyways.
Because while Covid-19 has been (justifiably) blamed for accelerating the demise of college as we’ve known it, the truth is that there have been swirling waters and gathering storm clouds for some time now.
Now I’m not really in the bold predictions businesses, but I am very much in the business of surveying the wind patterns and helping the organizations that I’m part of decide whether they should tack or jibe.
And when I look up and read the sails in the higher-ed space, here’s what I see…