Author: Grace Peasley

Over the past few weeks, I’ve published several articles about private colleges in the US. My first post discussed two articles by Daniel Greenstein, whose research of more than 1,000 private colleges indicated that enrollment scale and admissions selectivity were key indicators for these institutions’ ongoing financial success or financial risk. To analyze the reasonableness […]

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I had planned to take a break from writing about private colleges. Last week’s LinkedIn postings from several colleagues motivated me to read several articles about private four-year colleges in Iowa. The posts that I read discussed a proposed bill in Iowa that would allow two-year colleges to offer four-year degrees. The four-year private colleges […]

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[Note: This article follows some of the format from three previous articles 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, 24 private colleges in Virginia, and 30 private colleges and universities in Florida. […]

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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 […]

Read More… from Florida Private Colleges and Universities: The Impact of Scale, Admissions Selectivity, and Revenue Streams

[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, […]

Read More… from Virginia Private Colleges: The Impact of Scale and Admissions Selectivity

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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