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Cost of Higher Ed

Planning for Higher Education Journal

A New Type of Cost Analysis for Planners in Academic Departments
Planning for Higher Education Journal

A President’s Message to Planners

 How Oberlin's president set the stage for the college's strategic planning effort.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

An Analysis of Instructional Expenditures in U.S. Public Higher Education

 Results indicate that, when adjusted for inflation, instructional expenditures at U.S. public institutions increased from 2004–2015; however, evidence suggests that the rise was more modest and less consistent than may be known.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Assessing the True Cost of Student Housing for Community Colleges

 A campus housing project can only truly be successful if it is in line with the strategic mission of the institution.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Book Review: Higher Education Business Models Under Stress
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Book Review: Honoring the Trust
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Can the ‘Iron Triangle’ Be Bent?

 This article explores the implementation and sustainability of long-term (10+ years) tuition freezes at two large public flagship research universities: Purdue University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Cost and Productivity Analysis for Higher Education: A Look at the Boston College Approach
Planning for Higher Education Journal

If Tuition Rises . . .

 When the cost of American higher education goes up, access to economic opportunity, social mobility, and positive academic outcomes are, subsequently, restricted for students of color. Campus admissions and retention planning professionals are first witnesses to the inequality.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Improving Data to Tackle the Higher Education “Cost Disease”

 In seeking answers to the “cost disease,” it is particularly important to identify the policy levers that influence cost behaviors.
Conference Presentations

Paying the Price

 Award-winning researcher and author Sara Goldrick-Rab communicates a transformational vision for higher education in America that stresses affordability and access for all, especially lower- to middle-income students and first-generation college students.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Planning for Cost-Efficiencies in Online Learning

 Planning and planners must take the lead in ensuring that the design of on-line learning programs is both cost-efficient and productive. This must happen with some urgency because the gap between online learning models and implementation has been closing more rapidly than planners’ knowledge about online learning has been growing.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Reduce Curriculum Costs While Increasing Student Enrollment

 Results of the study supplied evidence needed to support tough institutional decisions. The 13 Kentucky colleges and universities that participated in the research now have critically important data to use in making choices about how they best serve their students, maximize scarce resources, and sustain financial stability.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Survival of the Financially Fittest

 Leaders must look closely at financial trends that may reveal signs of trouble—in the short or immediate term—and have the courage to act to address them.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Teetering on the Demographic Cliff, Part 1

 A long-term decline in birth rates raises fundamental planning questions for higher education as the pool of 18-year-olds contracts after 2025. How can planners and leaders use the time we have to prepare for some of the most wrenching changes in a generation?
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Teetering on the Demographic Cliff, Part 2

 Higher education has faced major changes for some time—COVID-19 accelerated that volatility—and now we’re anticipating the demographic downslope in student enrollment. How and when should institutions mobilize for the difficult work of planning in the face of wrenching change?
Trends for Higher Education

Trends for Higher Education | The Student Voices Edition

 This special issue of Trends describes student perspectives on four trends featured in recent issues of Trends for Higher Education: AI, personal finances, enrollment and attrition, and international students. Learn more about the opinions, reactions, and perspectives students have about these critical topics, preparing your institution to engage with your students in a more informed way.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Trends in Accreditation

 Dr. Lynn Priddy answers questions posed by education writer Stephen G. Pelletier related to changes in accreditation and their effect on institutions and students.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Tuition Rising: Why College Costs So Much
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Understanding Higher Education Costs

 Colleges and universities must be more proactive in describing to a wider public their of fiscal and human resources because, among other reasons, a careful analysis reveals counterintuitive results that support a finding that higher education has been fiscally responsible.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Understanding the Cost of Public Higher Education

 In the case of higher education costs, diametrically opposed views have persisted over time. Why?
Webinar Recordings

Voices from the Field: Episode #16

 From The Hope Center at Temple University, Paula Umaña discusses caring and communication: the need to identify your most vulnerable students, then ensure that available assistance is visible and easy for them to access.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

What Drives Instructional Costs in Two-Year Colleges

 In community colleges, who delivers instruction is more important in driving costs than what is taught.