Moody’s Investors Service’s U.S. Higher Education Mid-Year Outlook, released Thursday, paints a grim picture for higher education in which existing challenges of heightened competition for students, declining revenue sources, and backlogged maintenance get worse, while new problems emerge… The agency says public colleges and universities will have to shift toward a more market-driven approach rather than continuing to act as state agencies, “which means accelerating the pace of tuition increases or enrolling a higher percentage of out-of-state students, and adjusting their operating models to allow for surpluses that can be carried over as cash reserves.”

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by Staff, Inside Higher Education.

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