{
  "id": 864000,
  "title": "Private Colleges Are Losing Their Safest Market Position. The Middle Is Where Demand Dies First",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/14/private-colleges-are-losing-their-safest-market-position-the-middle",
  "topic": "finance",
  "section": "Finance & Markets",
  "published": "2026-08-14T10:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Inc.",
    "slug": "inc",
    "url": "https://www.inc.com/soren-kaplan/private-colleges-are-losing-their-safest-market-position-the-middle-is-where-demand-dies-first/91389167"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Higher education’s squeeze shows why leaders with neither premium power nor low costs can be first to crack when demand turns against them badly.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}