#TrendyTuesday: Community College Enrollment Decline, Gen Z Travel, Remote Jobs Disappearing, TikTok is Changing the Music Industry

Community College Enrollment Decline [05:14]
Community college enrollment plunges nearly 40 percent in a decade (The Hill, 4/15/23)
What Happened to Community College Enrollment During the First Years of the Pandemic? It Depends on the Students’ Age (Community College Resource Center, Teachers College, Columbia University, 1/9/23)
Community college enrollment is down, but skilled-trades programs are booming (NPR, 3/28/22)
Students are ditching college for trade programs teaching hard skills: ‘Finally, I feel like I’m going to accomplish something in life’ (Fortune, 4/17/23)
Average Cost of Community College 2021 (Education Data Initiative, 12/27/21)
‘It’s just too much’: Why students are abandoning community colleges in droves (The Hechinger Report, 1/15/21)
Community colleges are reeling. ‘The reckoning is here.’ (Associates Press/Hechinger Report, 4/4/23)
I Owe It All to Community College (The New York Times, 1/14/15)
Completing College: National and State Reports (National Student Clearinghouse, 12/20)

Gen Z Travel [16:20]
No cap: Gen Z’s spending habits include an unusual amount of travel (The Hustle, 4/17/23)
Gen Z Is Poised to Reshape the Travel Industry (Morning Consult, 4/10/23)
Gen Zs don’t have a lot of money, but they’re traveling anyway (CNBC, 4/16/23)
Millennials are making travel a priority more than previous generations—that’s not a bad thing (CNBC, 8/30/19)
Gen Z Habits Disrupting The Travel Industry (Forbes, 12/20/22)
2000-2020: The Events That Shaped Two Decades of Travel (Eshores)
Gen Z Is Influencing Hotels to Rethink Strategies: A Skift Deep Dive (Skift, 3/22/23)
Travel Marketing Across Generations in 2020: Reaching Gen Z, Gen X, Millennials, and Baby Boomers (Skift, 12/11/19)
Hostels Are More Popular Than Ever Among Travel-Leaning Millennials (Forbes, 5/16/16)
Half of millennials, Gen Z go into debt for summer travel. Here’s why. (Credit Karma, 5/14/19)
50 Years Of Airfares: The Evolution Of Price And What You Got In 1970 Vs Now (Simple Flying, 8/21/22)
How Millennials Are Changing Travel (The Atlantic, 6/19/14)
In Travel, We’re All Boomers Now (The New York Times, 2/1/23)
2023 Global Travel Trends (American Express, 1/23)
Prosperity Index Study (Intuit, 1/23)
Overseas Travel Trends (Bureau of Transportation Statistics, 12/1/11)
2022 Travel Trends (AARP, 3/22)
2021 Travel Trends (AARP, 2/21)
International Travel Bounced Back Strongly in 2022 (Statista, 3/9/23)

Remote Jobs Disappearing [25:35]
Get a remote job while you still can: More and more companies are calling workers back to the office — or outsourcing to cheaper workers overseas (Business Insider, 4/13/23)
What Young Workers Miss Without the ‘Power of Proximity’ (The New York Times, 4/24/23)
The real reason bosses are freaked out by remote work (Business Insider, 4/7/23)
About a third of U.S. workers who can work from home now do so all the time (Pew Research, 3/30/23)
More Americans are now working fully remote than 3 months ago, despite fewer WFH job openings (CNBC, 3/13/23)
Remote job opportunities are drying up but workers want flexibility more than ever, says LinkedIn study (Business Insider, 11/2/22)
Are Remote Tech Jobs Declining? (Dice, 1/13/23)
Remote Career Seekers Should Be Hopeful About The Future (Forbes, 2/21/23)
The Job Market for Remote Workers Is Shrinking (Wall Street Journal, 1/24/23)
Bad news, remote workers: You need to return to the office for your employer to succeed (USA Today, 2/2/23)
Executives feel the strain of leading in the ‘new normal’ (Future Forum Pulse, 10/22)
Hybrid Work Is Just Work. Are We Doing It Wrong? (Microsoft, 9/22/22

TikTok is Changing the Music Industry [36:17]
How TikTok is changing the music industry (Business Insider, 3/9/23)
Studies Show TikTok’s Music Clout: Two-Thirds of Users Go to Streaming Services to Play
Songs They’ve Found (Variety, 7/21/21)
How TikTok became the music discovery platform for the smartphone generation (NBC News, 7/28/19)
TikTok has changed music — and the industry is hustling to catch up (NPR, 5/22/22)
How TikTok revives old songs and turns them into new hits (Business Insider, 4/11/23)
The Biggest Old Music Hits Resurfaced by TikTok (Rolling Stone, 11/6/20)
New studies quantify TikTok’s growing impact on culture and music (TikTok, 7/21/21)
TikTok’s Knack for Connecting Fans With Songs & Brands Examined in New Study (Billboard, 7/21/21)
Studies Show TikTok’s Music Clout: Two-Thirds of Users Go to Streaming Services to Play Songs They’ve Found (Variety, 7/21/21)
How TikTok became the music discovery platform for the smartphone generation (NBC News, 7/28/19)
How TikTok revives old songs and turns them into new hits (Business Insider, 4/11/23)
Once upon a time, musicians hated making videos for MTV. Now, artists’ ire is aimed at TikTok (USA Today, 6/11/22)
Halsey and Capitol Records Sever Ties a Year After TikTok Dispute (Rolling Stone, 4/15/23)
TikTok Pays Artists ‘Almost Nothing’ in Music Royalties – And the Industry is Losing Patience (Billboard, 11/7/22)
Spotify pays artists (sort of), but not per stream. Here’s how it breaks down (USA Today, 3/29/23)
Is TikTok Actually Creating More One-Hit Wonders? (Billboard, 3/28/23)
TikTok Breaks Big Hits, But It’s Still Struggling to Break Big Stars (Rolling Stone, 7/17/20)
Napster turns 20: How it changed the music industry (BBC, 5/31/19)
The Piracy Sites That Nearly Destroyed The Music Industry: What Happened To Limewire (Forbes, 3/21/18)
TikTok’s effect on the music industry (Quartz, 2/24/21)