Special Report: Higher Ed’s Big Restructuring

With higher education facing concurrent crises, many institutions are responding not by waiting for conditions to improve but by fundamentally rethinking how they operate. That’s the premise of a new special report from Inside Higher Ed, called “Higher Ed’s Big Restructuring: Adapting to the Era of the Modern Learner.” Through expert insights, data and case studies, the report explores four structural forces that may be permanently changing what higher education is, whom it serves and what it must do to remain relevant:

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The economics of value and affordability, which are forcing institutions to justify their proposition to learners with more options and less margin for error
Artificial intelligence disrupting curricula and workforce alignment faster than typical governance structures can respond
A volatile regulatory environment that is creating both constraint and opportunity
Demographics, including up to five generations of learners engaging with higher education simultaneously

“Major transformations in the history of higher education are best viewed in retrospect, but I think it is reasonable to believe that we’re in one of those major transformations now,” said Joe Ross, CEO and president of Reach University. Katie Berger, strategy director for federal policy at the access-focused Lumina Foundation, added, “We are hitting a point where the traditional system and the way that it’s functioned doesn’t seem sustainable with smaller tweaks or changes on the margins.”

Download the free editorial report, supported in part by Modern Campus, here.

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