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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
Facione, Peter A. – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2009
Times are very tough. The great majority of colleges are looking at 2009 and 2010 and beyond, in anticipation of the deepest budget cuts in more than a generation. But as bad as the financial situation may be, colleges can survive if they take swift and strong emergency action. It is time for some straight talk, starting with the realization that…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Competition, Educational Finance, Adjustment (to Environment)
Gagliardi, Jonathan S. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
As a result of turbulent conditions, institutions are changing the way they operate. Research that illustrates the growing importance of activities on the edges of institutions is an important part of portraying entrepreneurship accurately; the growth of areas like intellectual property, applied research, fundraising, and increased university…
Descriptors: Intellectual Disciplines, Intellectual Property, Fund Raising, Partnerships in Education
BC Student Outcomes, 2015
Student feedback is an essential component of a high-quality, relevant education system. BC Student Outcomes provides that feedback by surveying former post-secondary students who took baccalaureate programs, apprenticeship technical training, and diploma, certificate, or associate degree programs. In 2015, almost 28,000 former students were…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Surveys, College Students, Academic Degrees
Hentschke, Guilbert C., Ed.; Lechuga, Vicente M., Ed.; Tierney, William G., Ed. – Stylus Publishing, LLC, 2010
This book offers a clear-eyed and balanced analysis of for-profit colleges and universities (FPCUs), reviewing their history, business strategies, and management practices; setting them in the context of marketplace conditions, the framework of public policy and government regulations; and viewing them in the light of the public good. Individual…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Academic Freedom, Federal Regulation, Global Approach
Munene, Ishmael I.; Otieno, Wycliffe – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, 2008
Reform in higher education financing in Kenya has been occasioned by both endogenous and exogenous variables. Internal pressures of a declining economy, rapid demographic growth and increased inter- and intra-sectoral competition for scare financial resources, couple with external neo-liberal doctrine championed by global donors like the World…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Educational Policy, Financial Policy
Kleinman, Ilene – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Profit-generating entrepreneurial initiatives have become increasingly important as community colleges look for alternative revenue to support escalating costs in an environment characterized by funding constraints. Academic capitalism was used as the conceptual framework to determine whether community colleges have become increasingly market…
Descriptors: Social Systems, Community Colleges, Income, Institutional Characteristics
Wolverton, Brad – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2008
Financial experts everywhere agree that the economy appears headed toward a recession. The question is how long it will last and how deep it will be. The last recession, in 2001, lasted less than a year. Most sectors, including higher education, shrugged it off. During lengthier downturns, colleges have often benefited from increased enrollments.…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Student Financial Aid, Grants, Educational Finance
Byrne, Desiree Kornrum – Online Submission, 2006
The economic success of the state of Texas is dependent upon future market participants having access to higher education. The ability of Texas citizens to access higher education is dependent upon access to financial aid resources to pay for higher education. Much is known about the impact of particular financial aid outcomes on access and…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Higher Education, Databases, Public Colleges
McCarthy, John H.; Turner, Robert M. – Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges, 1998
This booklet for trustees of higher education institutions offers guidelines to help trustees understand the institution's financial statements. Individual sections describe the three major financial statements and cover topics such as: (1) standards of the Financial Accounting Standards Board; (2) the "statement of financial position,"…
Descriptors: Accounting, Budgeting, Budgets, Data Interpretation
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
Dickmeyer, Nathan – 1980
Indicators of the financial health of colleges and universities are considered, along with causes of financial problems, a conceptual framework for institutional financial flows, and data sources. Five indicators are addressed: changes in institutional distress potential for private colleges, changes in institutional financial resources, changes…
Descriptors: Competition, Economic Factors, Educational Demand, Educational Finance
Anderson, Richard E. – AAHE Bulletin, 1985
Structural and economic problems facing higher education and potential new markets opened by continuing education are discussed, based on a study of 24 public and private institutions. Programming areas in continuing education are distribution requirements, contract training for employees of business, and noncredit courses for the general public.…
Descriptors: Adult Students, College Faculty, Compliance (Legal), Continuing 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