Join Kent State University President Todd Diacon for an in-depth conversation with Bryan Alexander, senior scholar at Georgetown University and author of ”Peak Higher Ed: How to Survive the Looming Academic Crisis.”

In this episode of the ToddCast, President Diacon and Dr. Alexander explore the transformative challenges facing American higher education. They discuss the concept of ”peak higher ed” including the period of maximum enrollment, research funding and public support that characterized post-war American universities. They examine the ”polycrisis” of overlapping challenges institutions now face, including demographic shifts, changing cultural attitudes toward college, declining state funding and the impact of emerging technologies like AI.