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A university president is warning that up to a quarter of colleges and universities<\/a> in the United States could close in the coming years.<\/p>\n

Arthur Levine, president of Brandeis University in Massachusetts, said during a recent conversation<\/u><\/a> at the American Enterprise Institute that he expects between 20\u201325% of American colleges and universities to shutter their doors.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

“Basically, what\u2019s happening is that higher education<\/a> is undergoing a transformation,” Levine said<\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\n

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“Our whole society is undergoing a transformation,” he added. “We\u2019re watching what was a national analog industrial economy become a global digital knowledge economy. And the consequence of that, in terms of higher education, is that we\u2019re seeing demographic change, economic change, technological change, global change, now political change. And what\u2019s going to happen is that 20 to 25%, as you know, of all colleges are going to close.”<\/p>\n

Levine said he expects<\/a> many community colleges and regional universities to shift heavily to online instruction, while wealthier institutions may be able to delay major changes.<\/p>\n

“Traditional higher education as we know it \u2013 research universities, residential colleges \u2013 are where the transformation is going to occur,” Levine said. “It\u2019s only occurred once before, during the Industrial Revolution, when tiny, little church-related colleges became universities, and technical schools, and land grant colleges, and community colleges, and research institutes, and graduate schools, and all the rest. And this time, what I essentially said to our faculty was, we\u2019re going to see the same pattern of change we\u2019ve always seen.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Some of the factors Levine contributed to colleges facing problems include higher education being too expensive, as well as their reluctance to change, and changing too slowly.<\/p>\n

He continued, “If something is very, very expensive, it ought to be worth your paying for it. There ought to be outcomes that are worth the price that you pay. In 1842, the president of Brown said, \u2018I can\u2019t even give this stuff away.\u2019 It\u2019s the nature of the beast. It\u2019s not the first time. When the world changes, every social institution gets left behind, including higher education, and they scramble to catch up. Some spend a very long time trying to catch up, some never catch up.”\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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