Enrollments in U.S. colleges and universities flourished from 1940 through 2010. For the past decade and a half, many colleges have struggled with adjusting their fixed cost, campus-based business model to declining enrollments as well as prospective students and their families focused on the relative value of earning a four-year degree. Some adjustments have been […]
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Last week, the New York Times published a guest essay from associate professor of German Leif Weatherby at NYU. The title of the essay, What Just Happened at West Virginia University Should Worry All of Us, opened with a statement that the recently announced planned program cuts (169 faculty and 30+ degree programs) to WVU’s […]
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As rising seniors prepare to return to high school for their senior year, I thought I’d prepare an article discussing a way to find out a lot of information about prospective colleges. The tool is called College Navigator and it is maintained by the National Center for Education Statistics, a division of the U.S. Department […]
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Recently, I wrote several articles about admissions, financial aid awards, and net price for higher education institutions. The purpose for the first article in the sequence was to point out the financial aid funding practices of the 12 Ivy Plus colleges and universities as well as the fact that their business model relied on a […]
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As I continue to reflect on the differences between private and public colleges and universities, I thought it would be interesting to look at the admissions and financial aid practices at historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs). HBCUs have served a higher percentage of lower income students than the elite colleges universities that I previously […]
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As rising seniors prepare to return to high school for their senior year, I thought I would write about a way to find information about prospective colleges beyond their websites and college catalogs. The tool is called College Navigator and it is maintained by the National Center for Education Statistics, a division of the U.S. Department […]
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During the beginning of a recent board of directors Zoom call, one of my fellow board members said hello and that she enjoyed reading my recent blog article. I asked her if she was referring to the Ivy Plus Affordability article, and she replied yes. We had a few minutes before the meeting started, and […]
For a while now, I’ve been an admirer of the projects that Jobs for the Future (JFF), a national non-profit based in Boston, initiates in order to drive transformations of the U.S. education and workforce systems to achieve equity and economic advancement for everyone. There are three boxes that JFF highlights on its Why We […]
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The emails and text messages started arriving Monday afternoon. Friends and associates sent me articles that mentioned the economic study indicating that the Ivy League colleges and their elite kin (known as the Ivy Plus institutions) favor the rich. The media campaign worked. The New York Times article was titled Study of Elite College Admissions […]
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I have been a fan of Michael Horn since he co-authored Disrupting Class with Clayton Christensen. I have copies of several of his books and subscribe to his podcast. On July 12, 2023 he released a podcast he made with Matt Siegelman. Matt is President of the Burning Glass Institute, a non-profit. For 20 years, […]
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