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A simple question from a friend and colleague about how independent school K-12 learning outcomes are established and measured led me down a road less traveled. I am very familiar…

A blog post from Wharton Interactive’s Faculty Director Ethan Mollick provided me with the heads up about an AI study with potential implications to the Future of Work. Mollick wrote…

For years, college students have complained about the cost of textbooks and course materials. At American Public University System, the institution where I served as president until August 2020, our…

I realized after writing about the financial aid practices at Ivy Plus universities, elite non-Ivy Plus colleges and universities, HBCUs, and large state universities, that there was a distinctive group…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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 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…

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…

  Usually when I write a blog article, most of the comments I receive are from LinkedIn connections who read my message and link to the article. My recent post…