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Thursday’s announcement in Inside Higher Ed that the University of North Carolina System will spend $97 million to create an internal unit to build and manage online programs from the…
In my recent post about Opportunity America’s paper recommending higher education accountability measurements, I noted that the framework proposed by the Opportunity America research panel needed a lot more substance…
Last week, Washington think tank Opportunity America released a white paper, “Accountability in Higher Education: For-Profit Colleges and Beyond.” [...]Read More... from How Should We Ensure Accountability in Higher Education?
Mr. Bloomberg, former mayor of New York City and former candidate for U.S. president, notes that before the pandemic, about two-thirds of U.S. students were not reading at grade level…
A few weeks ago, I wrote a review of "The Great Upheaval." Written by Arthur Levine and Scott Van Pelt, the book provided an excellent explanation why an industry that…
I suggest that the best thing that the federal government could do is to encourage stronger preparation of high school graduates for college. [...]Read More... from The College Degree Is…
I spent nearly two decades serving McDonogh, the private school where I served as a Board member or Board committee member. During those two decades, the school’s financial picture improved…
With the growth in McDonogh’s student enrollment initially stimulated by the addition of a kindergarten in 1992, the Finance Committee continued to refine its operating model. The Committee also continued…
As I discussed in my previous article about student enrollment, McDonogh’s Lower and Middle Schools had a fixed structure for staffing, based on the number of primary sections assigned to…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
