Bryan Alexander
Bryan Alexander is a niche, thought‑leadership–driven news and analysis site focused on the future of education.
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Comment on Undergraduate completion rates stabilize; one third of students don’t finish college in under six years by Oh Hell (opens the original)
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If 29% stopped out while 8.5% stayed enrolled, the plateau seems less stable.
Comment on The Inflation Reduction Act and higher education: open thread by Video To Text (opens the original)
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Could the IRA’s biggest campus effect be in teaching rather than construction? Having seen seminar projects get lost in notes, I would use searchable transcripts to make climate policy a shared curriculum.
At the intersection of storytelling, aging, and higher education (opens the original)
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Last week we hosted a great conversation on the Future Trends Forum. The topic was the intersection of storytelling, aging, and higher education. Today I’d like to share the recording of that session, along with the resources which participants contributed, plus a list of major themes addressed. Our guests were Joe Lambert, a world-renowned leader in digital storytelling, co-founded of what eventually became StoryCenter, and most recently the author of <a href="http://stor
Comment on The 2031 Crisis in Higher Education: a stark scenario by sibyledu (opens the original)
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I finally caught up with this scenario. Thanks, Bryan, and to Dahn for sharing. The present danger with any scenario like this is that it tends to assume things that accelerate its argument and ignore things that might serve as counterweights. In this case, I was struck by the focus on the labor-market effects only in the knowledge-based economy. AI may well damage prospects in, say, programming and marketing, but not in allied-health fields. Indeed, the one mention of allied health is when an i
International enrollment in American higher ed declined in 2025: new data (opens the original)
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Just a quick post to note new enrollment data: specifically, there’s new research concerning international students attending American colleges and universities. It’s not good. The Department of State posted new numbers about student visas over the past academic year. Inside Higher Ed found that the government issued 23% fewer visas in 2025 than in 2024. Two leading sending nations saw major drops: “China and India, historically the two countries that send the most
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