
OCTOBER 7, 2026
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1. Mapping the Structural Divide

Macalester College
“There are basically two ways a college gets into trouble.
One is not having enough cushion to take continued blows: a couple of bad enrollment years or a hit to the budget, and there’s not much in reserve to absorb them. The other shows up after students leave, when they’re holding degrees that don’t earn much and debt that takes a long time to pay down. Some schools have one of those problems and not the other.
Some, unfortunately, have both.”
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