Four-year private institutions spent about $2,073 to recruit each new student in 2005, more than four times what four-year public institutions spent and 28 times what two-year public colleges spent...
Private colleges took on higher levels of debt in the 2005 fiscal year, according to a new report by Moody's Investors Service, but they also kept themselves financially healthy, thanks to positive...
Another week, another transaction involving a for-profit online college. The latest: A private-equity group is buying Northcentral University, an all-online institution founded in 1996 and now...
Sometimes a university's best efforts to work with local public schools can hit obstacles -- just ask the University of Hartford. It took officials there a decade to negotiate the political and...
A new report that compares colleges by how accessible they are to needy students is drawing the ire of private-college leaders and lobbyists. The report, released last week by the Lumina Foundation...
Some 35 percent of first-time, full-time college students who plan to earn a bachelor's degree reach their goal within four years, and 56 percent achieve it within six years, according to a report ...
During the past two decades, public outcry over rising college prices at selective private colleges has escalated. Although since 1995 tuition has not risen relative to median family income, the...
Few patterns emerge -- except that few institutions will forgo increases With much fanfare, Williams College announced last year that for the first time in half a century, it would not raise...
The lower revenue expected by a "significant minority" of such colleges could hurt their future financial strength, says a Moody's Investors Service report.
Gov. George E. Pataki of New York wants the state's private colleges to be able to compete, for the first time, for public funds to help pay for capital projects
The economic picture for private colleges and universities in the 2002-3 fiscal year looks less promising than it did six months ago, according to a new report from Moody's Investors Service.
With all academe's interest in endowment growth, we may sometimes lose sight of the fact that a college's purpose is not to acquire wealth but to educate students. Isn't that what public colleges...
Professors at LeMoyne-Owen College have won the right to form a union, but the administration at the private Tennessee college is refusing to bargain and continues to wage a legal battle against...
Gaps in faculty pay between private and public colleges and universities continue to widen, warned the American Association of University Professors in its annual report on the economic status of...
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