Money and Finance
- The College-cost Calamity
WITH its leafy avenues and Gothic buildings, the University of Chicago seems a sober, solid sort of place. John D. Rockefeller, whose money built it, said it was the “best investment I ever made”. Yet Chicago and other not-for-profit American universities...
- For-profit Colleges, Vulnerable G.i.’s - By Hollister Petraeus
MILITARY personnel and their families are finding themselves under siege from for-profit colleges. A number of these schools focus on members of the armed forces with aggressive and often misleading marketing, and then provide little academic, administrative...
- 7 In 10 Students Have Skipped Buying A Textbook Because Of Its Cost, Survey Finds
Found via John Hawks. For many students and their families, scraping together the money to pay for college is a big enough hurdle on its own. But a new survey has found that, once on a campus, many students are unwilling or unable to come up with more...
- Academic Bankruptcy - By Mark C. Taylor
WITH the academic year about to begin, colleges and universities, as well as students and their parents, are facing an unprecedented financial crisis. What we’ve seen with California’s distinguished state university system — huge cutbacks in spending...
- Can You Afford A College For Your Child? Sharing Our Experience...
This year my daughter is going to college. I do not want her to get loans, we were not qualified for FAFSA and I saved some money in 529 account. She didn't apply to any local colleges because she wanted to go away from home. In this post I will...
Money and Finance
Colleges Lose Pricing Power
The demand for four-year college degrees is softening, the result of a perfect storm of economic and demographic forces that is sapping pricing power at a growing number of U.S. colleges and universities, according to a new survey by Moody's Investors Service.
Facing stagnant family income, shaky job prospects for graduates and a smaller pool of high-school graduates, more schools are reining in tuition increases and giving out larger scholarships to attract students, Moody's concluded in a report set to be released Thursday.
But the strategy is eating into net tuition revenue, which is the revenue that colleges collect from tuition minus scholarships and other aid. College officials said they need to increase net tuition revenue to keep up with rising expenses that include faculty benefits and salaries. But one-third of the 292 schools that responded to Moody's survey anticipate that net revenue will climb in the current fiscal year by less than inflation.
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- The College-cost Calamity
WITH its leafy avenues and Gothic buildings, the University of Chicago seems a sober, solid sort of place. John D. Rockefeller, whose money built it, said it was the “best investment I ever made”. Yet Chicago and other not-for-profit American universities...
- For-profit Colleges, Vulnerable G.i.’s - By Hollister Petraeus
MILITARY personnel and their families are finding themselves under siege from for-profit colleges. A number of these schools focus on members of the armed forces with aggressive and often misleading marketing, and then provide little academic, administrative...
- 7 In 10 Students Have Skipped Buying A Textbook Because Of Its Cost, Survey Finds
Found via John Hawks. For many students and their families, scraping together the money to pay for college is a big enough hurdle on its own. But a new survey has found that, once on a campus, many students are unwilling or unable to come up with more...
- Academic Bankruptcy - By Mark C. Taylor
WITH the academic year about to begin, colleges and universities, as well as students and their parents, are facing an unprecedented financial crisis. What we’ve seen with California’s distinguished state university system — huge cutbacks in spending...
- Can You Afford A College For Your Child? Sharing Our Experience...
This year my daughter is going to college. I do not want her to get loans, we were not qualified for FAFSA and I saved some money in 529 account. She didn't apply to any local colleges because she wanted to go away from home. In this post I will...