Get Ready for July Madness

There are no brackets to guide you through it, but July is the prime month for presidential transitions at private colleges. To keep up on who's going where, visit our Comings and Goings page, with up-to-the-minute news of the many appointments now being made.

NAICU Launches 2020 Initiative

NAICU and the Council of Independent Colleges have launched "Building Blocks to 2020," recognizing and encouraging private college and university efforts to help the nation reach President Obama's 2020 college education goal. For details, or to sign up your institution to participate, go to www.naicu.edu/2020.

    

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Hofstra's Ambitions Confront the Economy

Chronicle of Higher Education

July 9, 2009

The economic crisis is wreaking havoc on colleges of all types and sizes. But to institutions trying to improve their academic profiles, like Hofstra University, the recession is causing the worst headaches. For them, tight credit markets, tapped-out donors, and squeezed budgets are threatening a backward slide no one expected.

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