Colleges Continue to Raise Tuition, Squander the Money on Sports
We all know the drill by now: Faced with a major financial shortfall, the university announces that it has no choice but to sharply raise student tuition once again. “We remain committed to providing...
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Filling Budget Holes
If you want to get a sense of how bad state and local budgets are, there’s not a better resource out there right now than this article on Stateline.org. Among the things you’ll learn: Worst recession...
View ArticleThanks, Feds!
At the same time state and local budgets are cutting such things as meat and dairy for prisoners in Tennessee, textbooks in California, school sports in Hawaii, and dental coverage for low-income...
View ArticleFact-Checking Parks & Rec
In the penultimate episode of Parks and Recreation, Rob Lowe plays a manager from the Indiana State Budget Office who arrives to solve the financial problems of Pawnee. From 1999 to 2001 I actually had...
View ArticleCalifornia School Budgets Set to Implode Next Year
California’s school budget situation is an early signal of how much budgets are going to dominate the education discussion in 2011. As newly elected Gov. Jerry Brown prepares to takes office, he will...
View ArticleDepartment of Future Catastrophes
A few weeks ago I ended up in a random hotel bar conversation with someone who happened to manage the endowment for a liberal arts college. Both the amount of money involved (hundreds of millions of...
View ArticleQuick Hits (8.14.12)
Changing identity. In a New York City first, a public school could be replicated and expanded as a charter school, which poses certain “tricky technical issues.” (Gotham Schools) “Fights can’t just be...
View ArticlePre-K in the President’s Budget
Since President Obama called for a federal investment in universal preschool as part of his February State of the Union address, early childhood advocates have been eagerly awaiting the answers to...
View ArticleHigher Education’s Big Squeeze
While the media continues to swoon over MOOCs, the most important story in higher education has gone less noticed—the financial box in which most college presidents in the United States find themselves...
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