The silver lining is the Demographic Cliff of 2025: https://www.npr.org/2025/01/08/nx-s1-5246200/demographic-cliff-fewer-college-students-mean-fewer-graduates

The silver lining is the Demographic Cliff of 2025: https://www.npr.org/2025/01/08/nx-s1-5246200/demographic-cliff-fewer-college-students-mean-fewer-graduates https://www.npr.org/2025/01/08/nx-s1-5246200/demographic-cli... PDF warning: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr73/nvsr73-02.pdf https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr73/nvsr73-02.pdf Colleges will need to reduce class sizes, or close entirely, for the next decade at least. With smaller class sizes brings the opportunity for course instructors to provide more time per pupil so that things like in-person homework and project review is possible.