Tim Morin blog post raises questions of Olympic proportions
"Did you enjoy the Beijing Olympics? I didn’t. And I love China. I didn’t enjoy watching the Summer Games of 2008 and all the buzz going on over there because I kept thinking about two numbers: 25 and 800."
"The first number, 25, is the percentage of 9th graders in my state who will actually go on to graduate annually from a college or university over the coming years. I think this is a state’s “Smart Number” (kind of like that bed with the “Sleep Number”)… The other figure, 800, is the number of new colleges and universities being built in China. This decade. The U.S. adds maybe five per year."
"…This is a big problem.…"
Read the complete post of Vanishing Customers, Vanishing Employees. Tim Morin is a board member of the Minnesota Private College Council.