As we developed the 10-year operating projections for The McDonogh School, it was important to communicate and, in some cases, educate the Board members on the interrelationships between the various operating and financial components. […]
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When I moved to Austin, I donated my files from the years I served on the McDonogh School Board of Trustees to the McDonogh archives. I thought that it would be useful to craft a series of articles reflecting some of the work we did during a period of transformation for the school. […]
Read More… from A Private School Finance Primer – Reflections (Part 1)
There has been no scarcity of news articles and news reports about the shortages of supplies worldwide. Included among the most frequent are pictures and video clips of container ships waiting to be unloaded in ports around the world, announcements about companies unable to hire warehouse workers or truck drivers, smart chip shortages impacting deliveries of new cars and trucks, and raw materials unable to be delivered around the world. […]
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Recently, I read a tweet about the Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity (FREOPP) report titled “Is College Worth It?” I eagerly followed the link to read the report authored by Preston Cooper. Sadly, I was disappointed. […]
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It’s hard to avoid reading about the U.S. college student loan system (the programs that are collectively organized under the Federal Student Aid or FSA system). There are Democrats in Congress who want President Biden to unilaterally cancel student loans, up to $50,000 per individual. […]
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Over the weekend, tweets from higher ed academics and critics were circulating about a recently published article by Jon Marcus in The Hechinger Report.
The article, “Most college students don’t graduate in four years, so colleges and the government count six years as ‘success,’” claimed that colleges have moved the finish line to give themselves credit for success if students graduate in six years. Sometimes, that standard may even be eight years, which is what consumers find reported on the College Scorecard. […]
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When I read the press release that the Georgetown Center on Education and the Workforce had issued another report, I eagerly downloaded “The College Payoff: More Education Doesn’t Always Mean More Earnings.” […]
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I can’t remember how many books and essays I have read over the past two decades that forecasted major changes and disruption to higher education. Some were better than others, but none of them were as notable as Arthur Levine and Scott Van Pelt’s recently published “The Great Upheaval: Higher Education’s Past, Present, and Uncertain Future.” […]
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I wrote an article about four of the more recently issued rankings of colleges and universities. I had originally planned to write a follow-up article with a few groupings of colleges and universities that are not ranked in the top 25 or so. […]
Read More… from College Rankings: Could There Be a Better Alternative?
It’s hard to keep track of college rankings. These days, it seems like everyone wants into the game from which the U.S. News & World Report team made its fame and fortune (note that I did not say “originated” since I believe there were rankings before U.S. News). […]
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