Jon Marcus

Higher education editor at the Hechinger Report

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Jon Marcus  is the higher-education editor at the Hechinger Report.

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More than a dozen universities have closed in Japan due to its declining population. Could the U.S. be in store for the same fate, as college enrollment slips here?

Japan’s sharp college enrollment decline: Wake-up call to US?

More than a dozen universities have closed in Japan due to its declining population. Could the U.S. be in store for the same fate, as college enrollment slips here?

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The William Albert Noyes Laboratory of Chemistry University of Chicago at Urbana-Champaign Photo by Beyond My Ken Since the Great Recession and the start of the Obama…

Divesting in university research gutting the US economy

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