Access and Affordability

Online payment vendors offer insight on regulations and pressure to offer nontraditional options to students, families and supporters.

Five areas to consider when setting up digital payment options so students, families and supporters can easily pay for anything from tickets to tuition.

Prospective and current students, as well as alumni, need guidance from their institutions in being responsible about taking out student loans and then paying them back.

Total state support for higher education grew by 5% to approximately $96.6 billion in fiscal year 2019-20, representing the highest increase since 2014-15, according to the annual Grapevine survey.

Unless you are among the nation’s exclusive (and expensive) colleges and universities, you need to focus on affordability and curricular innovations, says Scott D. Miller, UB guest columnist and president of Virginia Wesleyan University.†‹ Those resistant to change are ignoring market realities that can combine to create the perfect storm—and lead to closure.

Having the right size physical plant, workforce and programming can pay off—if you act now, says UB guest columnist Karen Gross, an advisor and consultant to nonprofit higher ed institutions, and a former president of Southern Vermont College.