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{{Cquote|..students have moved away from the traditional [[humanities]] toward degrees in business, health care, and IT.
{{Cquote|..students have moved away from the traditional [[humanities]] toward degrees in business, health care, and IT.
The enrollment crisis will shift this trend into overdrive. [Shippensburg University] is responding to all the distribution centers out on I-81 by developing programs in logistics and supply chain management. It’s looking to create more short-term, job-focused certificates that lead up to a bachelor’s degree, and others that supplement BA’s after graduation. Other nearby colleges are expanding nursing programs, developing professional master’s degrees, and creating new courses for adults looking to change careers.
The enrollment crisis will shift this trend into overdrive. [Shippensburg University] is responding to all the distribution centers out on I-81 by developing programs in [[logistics]] and [[supply chain]] management. It’s looking to create more short-term, job-focused certificates that lead up to a bachelor’s degree, and others that supplement BA’s after graduation. Other nearby colleges are expanding nursing programs, developing professional master’s degrees, and creating new courses for adults looking to change careers.
Colleges won’t just be going along with the strengthening alignment of the higher education experience with the labor market. They will be actively promoting it, jettisoning “unprofitable” majors that used to be sheltered inside universities with more than enough students. The next generation of higher education leaders will take scarcity as a given and “return on investment” as both a sales pitch and state of mind.<ref>[https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/23428166/college-enrollment-population-education-crash The incredible shrinking future of college], Vox.com, 2022</ref>}}
Colleges won’t just be going along with the strengthening alignment of the higher education experience with the labor market. They will be actively promoting it, jettisoning “unprofitable” majors that used to be sheltered inside universities with more than enough students. The next generation of higher education leaders will take scarcity as a given and “return on investment” as both a sales pitch and state of mind.<ref>[https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/23428166/college-enrollment-population-education-crash The incredible shrinking future of college], Vox.com, 2022</ref>}}