From DSC:
Is higher education on the same trajectory as Blockbuster, Kodak, & others who didn’t adapt? Some items that prompted me to ask this question (again):
Private Distress — from insidehighered.com by Ry Rivard
Excerpt:
Some private colleges that managed to weather the recession are finding new troubles.
So they are announcing layoffs, cutting programs and more. Almost all of these small to mid-sized privates are tuition-dependent and lack large endowments. National declines in the number of traditional college-age population mean students just aren’t showing up to privates, which are facing competition from public colleges that are more stable now than a few years ago and the reality that privates cannot afford to indefinitely lure students by cutting prices with generous financial aid packages. And this could become a huge problem.
Higher education: On a crash course for reinvention — huffingtonpost.com by Bob Kerrey
Obama to Higher Ed: Find Ways to Lower Costs, Maintain Quality — from aspireblog.org by Sara Jacobi
Excerpt:
“The Secretary is particularly interested in experiments that will improve student persistence and academic success, result in shorter time to degree, and reduce student loan indebtedness,” reads the notice issued by the Department of Education.