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College Is Coming Apart After Successive, Overlapping Crises

A new Atlantic essay argues American higher education is unraveling under a stack of simultaneous pressures: demographic decline, financial strain, eroding public trust, and now artificial intelligence disrupting the value of a degree. The piece contends these overlapping crises are not temporary setbacks but structural shifts that may permanently reshape who goes to college, what it costs, and whether campuses survive.

Why now: AI's disruption of education and mounting campus crises have reignited debate about the future of universities.

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