I was recently asked to facilitate a workshop about serving on boards. Thanks to a successful and lengthy professional career, I estimate that I have actively served on at least 30 boards (because I was an officer of several public companies, I have technically served on the board of more than 100 subsidiary corporations). After […]
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A month or so ago, I wrote an article about two of Daniel Greenstein’s papers, which discuss the financial status of private colleges and universities. The first of his papers, titled The Fragility of Small Scale, concluded that total college enrollment below 2,500 students is where “fragility becomes structural.” The second of Mr. Greenstein’s papers […]
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[Note: This article follows the format from two previous articles commenting on Daniel Greenstein’s analysis of private colleges across the U.S. and my review utilizing data from 15 private colleges and universities in Maryland and 24 private colleges in Virginia. For this article, I added data from 30 private colleges and universities in Florida, a […]
[Note: This article follows the format from a previous article commenting on Daniel Greenstein’s analysis of more than 1,000 private colleges across the U.S., and my thoughts about his analysis utilizing data from 15 private colleges and universities in Maryland. I opted to create additional data tables from 24 private colleges and universities in Virginia, […]
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Small private colleges have been the subject of numerous articles predicting their risk of closure. Whether it’s low enrollments, tuition discounting, or their fixed cost structure, the causes of financial decline are similar. In December 2023, I wrote an article summarizing some of the more recent publications forecasting these looming disasters as well as some […]
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Prior to the availability of the College Scorecard in 2015, the U.S. Department of Education established the College Navigator website. Created by the National Center for Educational Statistics (NCES) and released in September 2007, College Navigator is the primary source for comparing colleges and universities that participate in federal student aid programs under Title IV […]
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The Stanford Center on Longevity (SCL) is “an interdisciplinary research center that engages more than 100 faculty across Stanford’s seven schools. Last month, SCL issued a white paper titled “Building a Learning Society.” The paper is the product of a convening related to SCL’s initiative challenging outdated models of education, work, and retirement. The five-page […]
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The American Enterprise Institute, a DC-based think tank with an education practice, recently issued a series of papers about higher education accountability. The One Big Beautiful Bill, passed by Congress and signed by the President, included a provision about measuring higher education accountability. I thought I’d read and review a few of the papers about […]
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An antitrust lawsuit filed last week against 32 colleges and two college application platforms challenges the financial fairness of Early Decision admissions. Inside Higher Ed’s Sara Weissman reported that the complaint claims that early-decision admissions policies “prevent students from comparing financial aid packages by requiring them to attend the college where they applied early, if […]
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While tech companies are pouring billions into their products to add AI-enabled features, the percentages of people who are using those features are mixed. Personally, I’ve made it a practice to use AI in some way every day and occasionally write an article using AI and comparing it to various sources, including my writing. Last […]
