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• ↓ Compact 2.0 and the McMahon statement: the Secretary of Education issues a call to action
• ↓ The 2031 Crisis in Higher Education: a stark scenario
• ↓ Thoughts on world population day 2026 and what might come next
• ↓ Campus closures, mergers, and cuts: a summer 2026 survey
• ↓ 1 Closures
• ↓ 2 Mergers
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"Greetings from early August.  For some this is vacation season, but for me it’s full-tilt work.  I’m pitching a new book, ramping up video and Substack content, setting up speaking gigs and consultations through next spring, and redesigning fall classes, while dealing with a frustrating health issue."

"I have a series of posts in the pipeline here, but today wanted to write about a current event.  Yesterday the United States Secretary of Education, Linda McMahon, sent a public letter (pdf) to the leaders of American colleges and universities, along with governing boards and some associations.  It’s an important development in the Trump administration’s campaign against higher education, so I thought we could examine it and see what it might mean for the academy over the next few years."

"To begin with, a quick summary of the letter’s contents: it calls on colleges and universities to commit to reforming themselves along certain lines.  Affordability, return on investment (ROI), intellectual diversity, anti-foreign actors, more focus on merit, an emphasis on America first as an organizing principle – there’s a lot there. All of these topics appear as questions, which I’ll quote and excerpt here:"

"This might sound abstract or lacking concrete details for the short term, but McMahon clearly laid out one marker.  She “called on every postsecondary institution to publish, by the end of 2026, a clear public statement outlining its commitment to implementing reforms that will help restore public trust in higher education.”"

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Compact 2.0 and the McMahon statement: the Secretary of Education issues a call to action

The 2031 Crisis in Higher Education: a stark scenario

Thoughts on world population day 2026 and what might come next

Campus closures, mergers, and cuts: a summer 2026 survey

1 Closures

2 Mergers