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Radhika Aravamudhan – ProQuest LLC, 2023
According to the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), there were 3,982 degree-granting postsecondary institutions in the United States in the 2019-2020 school year. Of these, 1,625 were public institutions and another 1,660 were private, nonprofit institutions (four-year and two-year schools). The private, nonprofit sector plays an…
Descriptors: College Enrollment, Private Colleges, Small Colleges, Tuition
Hwang, Youngsik – Community College Enterprise, 2020
I examine what the characteristics of competitive community colleges are and how the ranking systems identify the ideal qualities of community colleges through a comparison of community colleges to prestigious four-year institutions. I provide information regarding the institutional differences and the characteristics of top-ranked community…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Institutional Characteristics, Reputation, Educational Finance
Shin, Jung Cheol; Watanabe, Satoshi P.; Chen, Robin Jung-Cheng; Ho, Sophia Shi-Huei; Lee, Jin-kwon – Studies in Higher Education, 2020
This study analyzes and discusses how competition-based funding has been institutionalized in the three North East Asian countries of Japan, Korea, and Taiwan since the neoliberal reforms in the 1990s. We found that states set aside additional, 'competition-based' funding for distribution among higher education institutions. In addition, private…
Descriptors: Neoliberalism, Competition, Educational Change, Educational Finance
Barringer, Sondra N. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
In this dissertation I analyze the financial behaviors of public and private nonprofit higher education organizations in the U.S. from 1980 to 2010. The three analyses examine organizational change in the financial behaviors of these institutions and the effects of two sources of organizational interdependencies, stakeholder influence and…
Descriptors: Public Colleges, Private Colleges, Educational Finance, Organizational Change
Delisle, Jason D., Ed. – American Enterprise Institute, 2022
A long overdue, much needed transformation is underway in the higher education system. It started a decade ago, when federal and state policymakers first began to collect data on what students earn after pursuing a postsecondary education. But new data are fundamentally different. Unlike broad-based national statistics, such as how much someone…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Policy, Outcomes of Education, Income
Klemencic, Manja; Zgaga, Pavel – European Education, 2014
The article analyzes the public-private dynamics in the context of eight Western Balkan countries (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Kosovo, Montenegro, Serbia, and Slovenia). This article examines whether and to what extent these governments "level the playing field" between private and…
Descriptors: Private Colleges, State Universities, Privatization, Foreign Countries
Martin, Jeremy Paul – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Colleges and universities discount tuition by providing institutional aid to reduce the actual amount paid by a student. Discount rates are substantial and continue to increase, particularly at private institutions. Funded institutional discounts are linked to gifts or endowment income restricted to financial aid. Unfunded institutional discounts…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Private Colleges, Tuition, College Students
Tennessee Higher Education Commission, 2020
In January 2010, the General Assembly passed the Complete College Tennessee Act (CCTA), a comprehensive reform agenda seeking to transform public higher education through changes in academic, fiscal, and administrative policies at the state and institutional levels. While the higher education landscape has been shaped by the CCTA, it is also…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Enrollment, Public Colleges, Private Colleges
Tennessee Higher Education Commission, 2019
In January 2010, the General Assembly passed the Complete College Tennessee Act (CCTA), a comprehensive reform agenda seeking to transform public higher education through changes in academic, fiscal, and administrative policies at the state and institutional levels. While the higher education landscape has been shaped by the CCTA, it is also…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Enrollment, Public Colleges, Private Colleges
Barrett Adams, Dawn; Hayle, Carolyn – UNESCO International Institute for Educational Planning, 2021
This study on flexible learning pathways in higher education (FLPs in HE) was commissioned by the UNESCO International Institute for Educational Planning (IIEP). It is a part of a global research project to determine the effectiveness of national provisions for inclusive and equitable access to quality higher education and lifelong learning…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Flexible Progression, Program Effectiveness, Higher Education
Townsley, Michael K. – National Association of College and University Business Officers (NJ3), 2009
In this timely book, financial consultant and experienced college administrator Mike Townsley examines the financial and strategic resources that private colleges and universities must have in place to withstand the storm. Small college presidents, CFOs, planners, chief academic officers, and board members all have a hand on the tiller and will…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Small Colleges, Private Colleges, Educational Finance
Douglass, John Aubrey – Center for Studies in Higher Education, 2012
For-profit colleges and universities in the US have been growing at a staggering pace in enrollment, in profits, and in the corporate value of those traded on the New York Stock Exchange. From 2000 to 2010, the sector grew by some 235 percent in enrollment, increasing its market share from 3 to 9.1 percent of all tertiary enrolled students. What…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Free Enterprise System, Public Colleges, Educational Attainment
June, Audrey Williams – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2007
Chief financial officers at the nation's private colleges have bigger workloads than ever before, and in return, many are taking home much larger paychecks. A "Chronicle" survey of 103 private doctoral institutions shows that between 2003 and 2005, the median compensation package for the top financial position, which includes such titles as vice…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, School Business Officials, Salaries, Private Colleges
Washington Higher Education Coordinating Board, 2010
First published in 2002, "Key Facts about Higher Education in Washington" provides valuable information on the ways higher education serves the state and its people. The most current data and information available is presented throughout this report to highlight the "Key Facts" about Washington's postsecondary institutions,…
Descriptors: State Aid, Delivery Systems, Student Characteristics, Outcomes of Education
Bolton, Heidi; Matsau, Liapeng; Blom, Ronel – UNESCO International Institute for Educational Planning, 2020
This report forms part of an international project, led by UNESCO's International Institute for Educational Planning (IIEP), on higher education's role in supporting "flexible learning pathways." Flexible learning pathways (FLPs) in higher education provide routes to the acquisition of knowledge and skills at different life stages, to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Flexible Progression, Program Effectiveness, Higher Education