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IN THE MEDIA, FINANCIAL aid coverage tends to focus on topics such as the tensions between funding merit scholarships versus need-based grants, the growth in student and parent borrowing, and the need to increase funding for Federa
Articles: Enrollment & Retention
5/1/2009
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IT IS A WELL-KNOWN FACT: Tutoring helps students perform better. The trick is getting them to use it.
5/1/2009
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NOTHING TENDS TO FOCUS the mind more than impending doom, which lately has taken the form of the speeding train that is our current financial crisis.
4/1/2009
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IT DIDN’T TAKE PRESIDENT Obama long to follow through on his campaign promise to make higher education more affordable for students and families.
4/1/2009
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A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO I WROTE A COLUMN FOR UNIVERSITY BUSINESS that introduced the idea of brand as experience.
4/1/2009
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IN MAY 1994, ENRIQUETA CORTEZ became the first Hispanic woman in Texas to earn a PhD in physical chemistry. Just a decade earlier, no one could have foreseen her achievement.
4/1/2009
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PowerLite Flexible with Installation
The Epson PowerLite G5000 multimedia projector is designed for easy installation and use with many applications and content-based devices.
4/1/2009
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IN 1990, THE ASSOCIATION OF American Universities predicted a dramatic shortage of PhDs by the early 21st century.
4/1/2009
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Current college enrollment statistics have reached record-breaking levels, thanks to the approximately 4.2 million echo boomers who enter institutions of higher education every year.
4/1/2009
Hardly a day goes by without a college announcing jobs, programs, or spending cuts. You would think with all the brainpower at our colleges and universities they would be able to come up with better solutions than lopping off people, sections and services to students. But they don’t seem to. Why not?
3/1/2009
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I REMEMBER, IN A COLLEGE LITERATURE class, reading Jonathan Swift’s brilliant satirical essay “A Modest Proposal.” In it, Swift’s character suggests that the Irish could go far in alleviating a host of social ills—including overpop
3/1/2009
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WHEN BILL CLINTON'S 1992 PRESIDENTIAL campaign strategists came up with “It’s the economy, stupid,” which underscored that Clinton had a better understanding of issues facing the country at the time and therefore was a better choic
3/1/2009
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ALL YEAR LONG, BUT THROUGHOUT the colder months in particular, health care needs inevitably arise.
3/1/2009
Today’s economic conditions are monopolizing discussions among leadership teams and boards of trustees at many colleges and universities. It is a nerve-wracking time, to say the least. Financial stresses now loom very large in pending decisions about enrollment, tuition increases, net revenue, financial aid policies, and discount rates.
3/1/2009
Over the last two years, tax-exempt colleges and universities have become targets of increased scrutiny by the Secretary of Education, the Internal Revenue Service ("IRS") and the Senate Finance Committee. With the looming budget crisis and an ever-increasing deficit, regulators are taking a hard look at whether these institutions are providing the public benefits commensurate with the tax breaks they receive as a result of their tax-exempt status.
