Content written by Jeffrey Selingo, Cole Clark, and Dave Noone and published as A report by the Deloitte Center for Higher Education Excellence in conjunction with Georgia Tech’s Center for 21st Century Universities. 

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Extracted Content: IN THE DECADE since the beginning of the Great Recession, our complex and diverse system of public higher education in the United States has faced an unprecedented set of external forces and pressures that have, in some extreme cases, threatened the very existence of certain institutions. Throughout this period, there have been repeated proclamations of “disruption” to the higher education model—from certificates and badges, online learning (including MOOCs), for-profit universities, and the digitization and open access of learning resources, to name a few. Yet despite those disruptors, the system has soldiered on largely unchanged.

Today, however, the economic model for some in higher education, especially smaller, regional institutions, appears particularly vulnerable.

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