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College Is Coming Apart After Successive, Overlapping Crises
A new Atlantic essay argues American higher education is unraveling under compounding pressures: declining enrollment, skepticism about the value of a degree, financial strain on small colleges, political attacks, and now artificial intelligence disrupting both teaching and the job market graduates enter. Commenters are debating whether universities can adapt or whether the traditional four-year model is permanently broken.
Why now: AI's disruption of education and jobs has reignited debate about whether college is still worth it.
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