You would have to be a hermit, living a life removed from all forms of media and conversations with people, to be unaware of the multiple crises endangering institutions of higher education today and in the future. The intro to Deloitte’s most recent trends report does not pull punches about the current state of play. […]
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I received a LinkedIn email notification from a good friend and former colleague last week. He asked me if I had seen a LinkedIn post from one of our former colleagues that referenced an article on the New America website. The article was titled The Subprime PLUS Loan Crisis: How Dozens of Universities Steer Low […]
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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. […]
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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