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The Latest College Rankings: Methodologies and Flaws

September 23, 2021 Wally Boston

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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Graduation Rates Aren’t the Strongest Indicator of Institutional Success

September 6, 2021 Wally Boston

Institutions of higher education are often compared and judged based on their graduation rates, but it often provides an incomplete picture of institutional success. In this podcast, Dr. Bjorn Mercer and I discuss various metrics used to compare institutions and the many variables that affect those metrics.

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More Analysis of Law School Debt and Earnings Data

July 27, 2021 Wally Boston

After reviewing and writing about the data available for law school graduates in the Wall Street Journal tool, I planned to review the data for medical school graduates and write a similar report. While reviewing the medical school data, I paused when I reached the colleges whose names begin with the letter “D.” At that point, I realized that one of my alma maters, Duke University, was not listed.

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COVID-19 and Reconnecting Disrupted Learners to Education

June 9, 2021 Wally Boston

In a Strada Education Network article, “What Will Reconnect Disrupted Learners to Education?,” Paul Fain writes that the number of learners whose education was disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic a year ago but who intended to return to education within six months has decreased.

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Our Broke Public Universities: The Consequences for Equity

June 2, 2021 Wally Boston

In an opinion piece called “Our Broke Public Universities,” published in The Chronicle of Higher Education, academics Laura Hamilton and Kelly Nielsen write that beyond flagship state universities, the privatization of public universities in general has had a devastating consequence for racial and social equity.

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Tuition Discount Rates Reach New High: A Good News/Bad News Event?

May 28, 2021 Wally Boston

Last week, the National Association of College and Business Officers (NACUBO) released the preliminary results of a study of the average tuition discount rates issued by private, non-profit colleges for the 2020-2021 academic year.

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When Graduation Rates Are All about the Numbers, Are They Really?

May 17, 2021 Wally Boston

Many years ago, I was a consultant in the management advisory services division at Price Waterhouse. With experience using computer modeling software from my MBA curriculum, I was assigned to a number of engagements building financial projections for businesses, large and small.

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Pandemic to Permanent – Another Prognostication of Higher Ed Changes Accelerated Due to the Pandemic

May 4, 2021 Wally Boston

May 1 was the date that many colleges required accepted applicants to indicate their commitment to attend for the coming 2021-22 school year. It must have also been the date for predictions on higher ed trends and changes.

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Should Colleges Be Able to Determine Who They Admit?

March 31, 2021 Wally Boston

The sequels continue as responses come in to the now-famous Atlantic article by Caitlin Flanagan about independent school graduates comprising a higher percentage of elite college admissions than their overall share of high school graduates would indicate.

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Priced Out: What a College Education Is Costing America

March 30, 2021 Wally Boston

In a recently published research paper, “Priced Out: What College Costs America,” National Association of Scholars Research Fellow Neetu Arnold examines three issues in U.S. higher education: inflated tuition, continuously expanding administrative positions, and increasing levels of student debt. She also shows how they join and reinforce each other to the detriment of America.

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