In this web seminar, Scannell & Kurz offers best practices in deploying scarce aid resources, while discussing how to evaluate the effectiveness of current pricing and award strategies and how to identify opportunities to increase net tuition.
Daily News
5/8/2013
Unless lawmakers find the money, Oklahoma's higher education facilities will be forced to fork over an additional $24 million a year in bond costs that education leaders previously believed were going to be shouldered by the state.
5/7/2013
A new company wants to bring college students to live downtown Syracuse by turning a vacant office building near Armory Square into a dormitory for 146 students.
5/7/2013
Administrators at the University of Central Arkansas say they are seeing the need to bump up tuition costs again.
5/7/2013
Private U.S. colleges, worried they could be pricing themselves out of the market after years of relentless tuition increases, are offering record financial assistance to keep classrooms full.
5/7/2013
There is a lot of talk right now about the future of higher education, and particularly about how student financing should be redesigned within that new future. The main driver of this interest is the nation's dramatically increasing need for talent. Two-thirds of all new jobs require a postsecondary degree or other credential, but only about 40 percent of Americans have it. As a result, the talent gap is wide.
5/7/2013
While some employers have suggested they will cut some or most part-time employees to under 30 hours so as not to have to incur the added cost of health insurance, the University of Central Oklahoma has announced it will provide full benefits to all faculty working more than 27 hours per week.
5/7/2013
In the last four years, higher education in Louisiana has felt the brunt of more than $650 million in cuts. Depending on what happens in the state legislature, tuition could rise for thousands of students at universities across the state. Recently, the state's House Education Committee held a hearing on a proposed bill which would allow universities to raise tuition without legislative approval.
5/7/2013
In a new report, students are giving their colleges and institutions a failing grade. We don't spend enough time asking the people who have the most skin in the game — the recent graduates of America's colleges and universities — what they think.
5/7/2013
Increasingly, it seems as though higher education doesn’t have a place for people like me or my family. You see, we are the middle people. We are middle class, with three children. But in the realm of higher education, if you are “middle,” you are at the bottom. Scholarships, grants and financial assistance abound for students who earn top grades. And rightfully so.
5/7/2013
Officials at Oklahoma's colleges and universities are working on their budgets for the upcoming fiscal year. The process includes deciding whether students will see an increase in tuition and fees in the fall.
