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Colleges face a new reality, as the number of high schools graduates will decline

The Hechinger Report

The nation’s colleges and universities will soon face a demographic reckoning: A new report projects that the total number of high school graduates will decline in the next two decades, while the percentage of lower-income and nonwhite students will increase. The Topic: Composition of future high school classes.

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A few universities help black and Hispanic students reach and finish graduate school

The Hechinger Report

The number of white high school graduates who are candidates for college is projected to fall by 14 percent by 2032, according to the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education, while the number of Hispanic and Asian high school graduates in particular will continue to grow substantially and the number of black high school graduates will fall (..)

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Colleges Must Respond to America’s Skill-Based Economy

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percent in 2032. To address our children’s hunger and our communities’ poverty, our educational system must be redesigned to remove the boundaries between high school, college and careers so that more Americans can train for and secure employment that will sustain them. percent in 2022 to 60.4 According to the U.S.

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The number of 18-year-olds is about to drop sharply, packing a wallop for colleges — and the economy 

The Hechinger Report

Thats because the current class of high school seniors is the last before a long decline begins in the number of 18-year-olds the traditional age of students when they enter college. There will soon be many more such scenes, a preponderance of evidence suggests. Demographers say it will finally arrive in the fall of this year.

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