Academic Spending Versus Athletic Spending: Who Wins?
A recent brief from the Delta Cost Project explores athletic and academic spending at public NCAA colleges and universities between 2005 and 2010. The data indicate that Division I public institutions...
View ArticleCollege Spending in a Turbulent Decade: Findings from the Delta Cost Project
The Delta Cost Project has released its annual update to its Trends in College Spending series that examines trends in revenues and spending for public and private nonprofit colleges and universities....
View ArticleState Higher Education Finance, FY2011
This week the State Higher Education Executive Officers (SHEEO) released their ninth annual trends report on state funding for higher education. Some highlights include:In the last five years, college...
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Department of Education Letter Could Put Cracks in the Credit Hour
The U.S. Department of Education took a critical step forward today in moving towards a more flexible and innovative financial aid system—one that privileges (and pays for) learning, rather than time....
View ArticleThe Academic Graveyard Shift: Facere Magis Cum Minus (Do More With Less)
“Do more with less.” Many universities could emblazon their crests with this motto to reflect their 21st century operational—if not inspirational—ethos. With not one but two recessions to begin the new...
View ArticleMarch Madness: Do Colleges Cut Down the Net on Net Price?
This post originally appeared on the New America Foundation's In the Tank blog.College basketball fans across the country bemoaned ruined brackets as they watched Harvard unseat the University of New...
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It’s Official! US Department of Education Approves First College to Ditch the...
For more than 100 years, the time-based credit hour has been the currency of higher education. Originally created to calculate eligibility for Andrew Carnegie’s free faculty pension system, the credit...
View ArticleAddressing the Declining Productivity of Higher Education Using...
A new report from AEI’s Stretching the Higher Education Dollar initiative demonstrates how cost-effectiveness analysis (comparing the costs and outcomes of two or more options) might be applied to a...
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The Academic Graveyard Shift: IRS Provides Guidance on Identifying...
“Do not pass go, do not collect $200,” the harsh cliché made ubiquitous by Monopoly, is essentially what the Internal Revenue Service told a group of universities recently. A special report from the...
View Article“High-Tuition, High Aid” Hurts Low-income Students at Public U’s
[The New America Foundation's Education Policy Program recently released "Undermining Pell: How Colleges Compete for Wealthy Students and Leave the Low-Income Behind," a report that presents a new...
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The Next Generation University
May 21, 2013Kevin CareyRachel Fishman Jeff Selingo, editor at large for The Chronicle of Higher Education; Hilary Pennington, director of the Generations Initiative; and Iris Palmer, senior associate...
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The Next Generation University
With the economy stuck in neutral, tuition prices and student loan debt skyrocketing, and parents and students increasingly questioning the value of a college degree, our public institutions urgently...
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Is $1 trillion a number we should fear?
The most popular number in higher education today is $1 trillion—the total amount of outstanding student loan debt, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. It’s big and scary; the size of...
View ArticleWhat Reading 900+ Comments Tells Us About the Coming Gainful Employment...
Circle September 9 on your calendars. That's the date according to a Federal Register notice published yesterday that the Department of Education will bring together a committee to develop new...
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Voices from the Front Lines of the HBCU PLUS Loan Crisis
Last year the U.S. Department of Education tightened eligibility requirements for federal PLUS loans, leading to a significant increase in rejection rates, from 28 to 38 percent. Many families and...
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No One's Watching the Watch Lists
Last week, the U.S.. Department of Education unveiled the latest set of tuition watch lists, the annual exercise to "shame" colleges and universities by publicly identifying those with the biggest...
View ArticleEducation at a Glance 2013
Education at a Glance, a report from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, analyzes various indicators of performance for pre-kindergarten through higher education across 34 member...
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Upcoming Event: Saving Financial Aid
The Asset Building Program is looking forward to hosting an event this coming Monday morning in collaboration with the Assets and Education Initiative (AEDI) at the University of Kansas. Join us on...
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Syllabus: Week of July 8, 2013
Welcome to the Syllabus, a guide that provides insight into what’s happening in higher education. Read: A University's Offer of Credit for a MOOC Gets No TakersBy Steve Kolowich, The Chronicle of...
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Senate Appropriations Panel Approves 2014 Spending Bill
For more details on early education in the Senate Appropriations Committee Labor-HHS-Education bill, check out this post from our sister blog, Early Ed Watch.The Senate Appropriations Committee voted...
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