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New College Affordability Measures

Initiatives being launched in 2012-13 to help keep students' and families' out-of-pocket costs as low as possible. Tuition cuts and freezes, three-year degree programs, and more. Complete list.

NAICU Statement on President Obama's Higher Ed Proposals

NAICU President David Warren commends the president's commitment to student assistance, and calls for avoiding unintended consequences for students. More

White House Official, College Presidents to Address College Affordability at NAICU Annual Meeting

A week after President Obama warned colleges in his State of the Union address that they were "on notice" to keep tuition increases in check, a senior White House education adviser and three private college presidents will address higher education affordability at the NAICU Annual Meeting More

Net Tuition Price Falls 4.1% at Private Colleges

Inflation-adjusted net tuition and fees at private colleges actually dropped 4.1 percent in the last five years, according to a recent College Board report. More

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Training the Education Legislators

Inside Higher Ed

January 18, 2011

North Carolina's General Assembly convenes next week, and new legislators will fill the House and Senate chambers here as elsewhere. But thanks to a unique program aimed at enhancing the education expertise of lawmakers in the Tar Heel State, North Carolina's House and Senate members will start their session fresh off a crash course on the challenges facing the state's prestigious public college system.

In a tough economy, new focus on job-oriented certificates

The Hechinger Report

January 17, 2011

Labor economists and some educators believe career-driven degrees should become an increasingly common choice and are advising students to pursue skills-oriented fields of study they feel offer better job opportunities. Fueling the trend is the worst economic decline in more than 70 years and a slowly falling unemployment rate of 9.4 percent. Add to that the staggering total of $830 billion in student debt nationally. According to Anthony Carnevale, director of the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce, at least half of all anticipated job opportunities in the next seven years will be open to "middle-skill" workers.

Colleges struggle to cope with troubled students

Associated Press

January 17, 2011

Many colleges and universities have started or strengthened threat assessment teams of administrators, counseling directors, campus police chiefs and others who meet regularly to field concerns about disturbing behavior and to investigate them. But the issues are not always clear-cut. What should be protected as free speech? When does behavior cross the line from odd to potentially dangerous? When is suspension or expulsion warranted, or forced mental health treatment?

Financial Outlook Is Brighter for Some Colleges, but Still Negative for Most

Chronicle of Higher Education

January 17, 2011

Moody's Investors Service says the outlook for a relatively small number of well-managed, diversified colleges looks stable in 2011, an upgrade from the negative forecasts that the credit-rating agency has given higher education over the past couple of years. In its latest outlook report, however, Moody's maintains a negative outlook for the majority of higher-education institutions, which it says are too dependent on tuition, auxiliary income, and state support. The Moody's report, which will be available from the company to its subscribers this week, highlights a widening gap between have and have-not colleges.

Stop Defending the Liberal Arts

Inside Higher Ed

January 17, 2011

Although many private universities and colleges are making new investments in the humanities and liberal arts, access to this kind of education is being eroded at public institutions. And in these harsh economic times, many students feel that liberal arts education is a luxury they can't afford. I think, as well, that humanities professors, who are most often the advocates for the liberal arts, feel generally underappreciated, since our culture (and even university culture) sometimes seems not to value what we do. But a nagging sense of marginalization can also sometimes lead liberal arts faculty to become defensive.

Thanks, But No Thanks

Inside Higher Ed

January 17, 2011

It is a notable sign of the times that more college leaders are arguing that the traditional model of public higher education is dysfunctional, and advocates of a new way forward say they've reached this conclusion after frustrating years of legislative sessions that are typically defined by handwringing and disappointment. In his pitch to lawmakers, Richard W. Lariviere, president of the University of Oregon, says he's often reduced to the same tired declaration: "We're doing very important work for the future. We need more money to do it well. Please give us more money." "We've been doing that for 30 years, or at least I have been, and it really hasn't pushed the envelope very far," he says.

To Craft Higher-Education Policy, Start by Finding the Facts

Chronicle of Higher Education - Opinion Piece

January 16, 2011

I have often been asked what (if anything!) I have learned from my many years of experience as a university provost and president. On more than one occasion I failed to look closely enough at real evidence. I learned that it was easy to succumb to the temptation to believe what I wanted to believe or to accept at face value assertions made by others. There is simply no substitute for framing questions carefully and then looking with a cold eye at properly organized sets of facts. Let me give three examples, each relating to that bedrock function of any educational institution, the admissions process.

Higher Education Legislative Priorities: An Open Letter to Newly Elected Representatives and Senators

Huffington Post - Opinion Piece

January 16, 2011

I won't bore you with the usual exhortation about how higher education is a jewel in America's crown. I'm afraid that lately we have been on the national radar screen in negative ways: runaway tuition, a greater emphasis on research than on undergraduate teaching, and lack of response to the needs of the greater society. But the higher education community increasingly is facing these issues more squarely, and I offer for your consideration a few assertions and suggestions that would have a momentous impact on America's ability to remain a major force in the world of our children and grandchildren.

Amid Cuts, Public Colleges Step Up Appeals to Alumni

New York Times

January 16, 2011

As state legislatures cut back support for higher education, public colleges and universities across the country are turning to their alumni, hat in hand, as never before. But many find themselves arriving late to the game, particularly in the Northeast, where state governments have traditionally been generous and a host of private colleges have dominated the quest for donations. The rush to catch up has placed public campuses in an awkward stance: cutting academic programs and instructors at the same time they are expanding development staffs and investing in a fund-raising infrastructure.

Thin Coffers, Ambitious Education Agendas Put New Leaders on the Spot

Education Week/San Antonio Press

January 15, 2011

The challenge: how to reconcile sluggish revenues and calls for slimmed-down government with a long list of ambitious-and potentially costly-education overhaul projects already in progress. "This is education's �General Motors' moment," says Bob Wise, a former Democratic governor of West Virginia, as K-12 systems across the country push to produce a higher-quality product while clamping down on costs. New governors and state legislators also must decide how to deal with initiatives that were launched or agreed to by their predecessors-and which may or may not dovetail with their own educational and political agendas.


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