{"id":94045,"date":"2024-12-21T13:06:44","date_gmt":"2024-12-21T18:06:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=94045"},"modified":"2024-12-21T14:20:26","modified_gmt":"2024-12-21T19:20:26","slug":"college-operating-costs-rose-3-4-in-fiscal-2024-unglesbee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2024\/12\/21\/college-operating-costs-rose-3-4-in-fiscal-2024-unglesbee\/","title":{"rendered":"College operating costs rose 3.4% in fiscal 2024 [Unglesbee]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.highereddive.com\/news\/college-operating-costs-rose-34-in-fiscal-2024\/735560\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>College operating costs rose 3.4% in fiscal 2024<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from highereddive.com by Ben Unglesbee<br \/>\n<em>Commonfund Institute\u2019s latest Higher Education Price Index shows that cost spikes slowed \u2014 but that doesn\u2019t make them any less painful.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Dive Brief:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Costs for operating a college rose 3.4% in fiscal 2024, according to the latest Higher Education Price Index from the Commonfund Institute.<\/li>\n<li>The price increases outpaced Commonfund\u2019s preliminary projections this spring of 3% for the year. However, the HEPI showed that inflation has slowed more than half a percentage point from fiscal 2023 and is down nearly 2 percentage points from 2022\u2019s 5.2% inflation rate.<\/li>\n<li>Utility prices and those for supplies and materials slowed the most significantly, after recent years of volatility in those areas.\u00a0While costs for institutions are cooling, \u201cthere is an ongoing trend of inflation rates remaining elevated compared with the previous decade,\u201d Commonfund said.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em>Speaking of higher education, also see:<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/news\/student-success\/college-experience\/2024\/12\/20\/trends-higher-education-student-success-2025#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>25 Stats for 2025<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from insidehighered.com by Ashley Mowreader<br \/>\n<em>Inside Higher Ed\u00a0compiled two dozen\u2013plus data points to help guide strategic decision-making and student success initiatives on college campuses.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>College operating costs rose 3.4% in fiscal 2024 &#8212; from highereddive.com by Ben Unglesbee Commonfund Institute\u2019s latest Higher Education Price Index shows that cost spikes slowed \u2014 but that doesn\u2019t make them any less painful. Dive Brief: Costs for operating a college rose 3.4% in fiscal 2024, according to the latest Higher Education Price Index [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,115,302,57,3,7,321,214],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-side-of-he","category-colleges","category-community-colleges","category-cost-of-getting-a-degree","category-higher-education","category-learning-ecosystem","category-united-states","category-universities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94045"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94057,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94045\/revisions\/94057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}