TIAA美国教师退休基金会：2025年影响高等教育演变的宏观趋势研究报告：21世纪高校适应与价值创造路径（英文版）

For generations of Americans, higher education has stood as a beacon of personal achievement and a clear path to a better life. The role of colleges and universities in delivering on that promise has long been regarded as self-evident. In 1973, Derek C. Bok, barely two years into his tenure as president of Harvard University, declared with confidence that the fundamental purpose of a college education “scarcely requires justification.”1 A half-century later, evidence suggests the value of a coll