The incredible shrinking future of college
Kevin Carey,
Vox,
May 02, 2023
This is a very clever but deeply flawed article from an author who, it must be remembered, opines from a hard-right perspective. Yes, it's true that college enrollment in the United States is on the decline, especially at the smaller institutions that dot the rural countryside. There will be a lot of change and the sector will be transformed. But does it follow that "College-educated Democrats will increasingly congregate in cities and coastal areas, leaving people without degrees in rural areas and towns?" Well of course not; this trend would completely ignore the impact of online learning and remote work, both factors that will tend to reduce the urban-rural divide, not strengthen it. I live and (mostly) work in a small rural eastern Ontario village because I can, something that wasn't true even a decade ago, but was predicted in 1981 by Alvin Toffler.
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