En los cinco años anteriores a 2011, la matrícula de educación superior se mantuvo constante. En los dos años de 2012 y 2013, el número de estudiantes universitarios cayó, con la disminución uniformemente dividido entre los estudiantes tradicionales y no tradicionales. Hubieron menos estudiantes en el 2012 que en el 2010, una tendencia preocupante para las instituciones de aprendizaje, acostumbrados a un mercado en expansión.
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Wednesday, Nov. 12, 2014
"My Mexican father applied to colleges in the United States in the late 1940s, and was offered scholarships by the University of Arizona and Western Reserve (now Case Western Reserve) in Cleveland. His father sat him down and drew a line from west to east across a map of the United States and said: “Below this line, they don’t like Mexicans.” It was a fateful moment, all but ensuring Dad would return to Mexico upon graduation. He did not like the cold. He would have loved Tucson."
Wednesday, Nov. 12, 2014
Campuses’ career counselors have been seeing encouraging signs, and now a major survey of employers backs them up: The coming year looks to be a much better one for new college graduates seeking jobs. Job openings for those graduates are projected to grow by double digits in 2014-15, following several years of smaller increases, according to key findings from the survey, which was released on Tuesday. Hiring of new bachelor’s-degree recipients will increase by 16 percent, the survey projects; hiring among all degree levels will grow at the same rate.
Wednesday, Nov. 12, 2014
In the five years preceding 2011, higher education enrollment remained constant. In the two years of 2012 and 2013, the number of college students fell, with the decrease evenly split between traditional and non-traditional students. There were fewer students in 2012 than in 2010, a disturbing trend for learning institutions accustomed to an expanding market. More shocking still is the reporting by the New York Timesthat 33 percent of universities and colleges will be in danger of closing and are on an unsustainable fiscal path in the next decade should the trend continue.