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Enrollment Management
  • Ryan Busch Interviews Joshua Sine, Director of New Student Services and Programs, Dixie State College of Utah
    Enrollment and admissions are in the cloud. No, seriously. I interviewed Joshua Sine about the work he's done at Dixie State College of Utah to improve efficiency in the process of working with new and prospective students. Dixie State College recently adopted a cloud-based system from Enrollment RX for this purpose. From the sound of it, Sine is pleased with the improvements.
  • U of Phoenix enrollment drops 42%
    Student enrollment at U of Phoenix parent Apollo Group nose-dived 42% in the 3rd quarter of 2010. Investors learned that company executives believe it is only the beginning. The company expects those figures to fall as much as another 40% next quarter, and Apollo could continue to see steep declines for the rest of the year, executives said. The falling new student enrollment appears to reflect the company's struggle to financially adjust to new rules that bar for-profit schools from paying admission counselors based on how many students they enroll.

    -htrnews.com
  • U of California reaps record out-of-state applications
    Students are applying to the U of California in record numbers, with increases in freshman applications from other states and countries far outpacing those from within the state. The cash-strapped university has stepped up recruitment of out-of-state freshmen, who pay nearly three times the tuition that residents pay: about $35,000 versus $12,000.

    -sfgate.com
  • Vanderbilt alters application after abortion clause protest
    Vanderbilt U Medical Center modified its nurse residency program application Wednesday in response to a Christian group's complaint that the hospital was asking pro-life applicants to agree to participate in abortions. Vanderbilt employees can cite religious or moral grounds to opt out of participating in procedures that terminate pregnancies.

    -tennessean.com
  • Double-digit rise in applications
      The U of Chicago received 21,669 undergraduate college applications, the most it has ever gotten for an incoming freshman class and a 12% increase from last year. Northwestern U said it received 30,529 applications, which represented a 10.5% increase from the previous year. The U of Chicago received 21,669 undergraduate college applications, the most it has ever gotten for an incoming freshman class and a 12% increase from last year. Northwestern U said it received 30,529 applications, which represented a 10.5% increase from the previous year.

    -chicagobusiness.com
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Financial Aid & Bursar
  • Tuition paid in ones
    In a YouTube video Nicolaus Ramos, a U of Colorado student from Sacramento, explains why he paid his $14,309 tuition bill with 30 pounds of one-dollar bills.

    -YouTube
  • Heading off the college tab
    Ken Clark, author of "The Complete Idiot's Guide to Paying for College", reduces how to pay for college to one simple rule: "Plan on putting away $75 per kid per month from the day they're born, and that will get you four years at a state school."

    -baltimoresun.com
  • Prepaid cost increases, sales decrease
    Florida Prepaid's cost of a 4-year all-inclusive university plan is now $45,367 for a newborn. The high price has impacted sales. For 2010-11 sales are down about 70% from the previous year.

    -Orlando Sentinel
  • Presidents plot push for aid changes
    A group of college presidents and financial aid experts from independent colleges have high hopes of remaking the financial aid landscape. They aim to stop higher ed from hurtling down its current path of giving ever-increasing amounts of financial aid to academically talented (but not necessarily financially needy) students.

    -Inside Higher Ed
  • Illegal lobbying charge rejected
    ED officials did not engage in illegal lobbying in 2009 when they encouraged higher education leaders to publicly endorse legislation that overhauled the student loan programs, the agency's inspector general reported in response to accusations made by Republican Congressional leader

    -Inside Higher Ed
Executive Suite
  • Letter to Today's Campus from Virginia Tech Official in Response to Crisis Management Article from March-April 2012
    After reading James Satterfield’s article on Reputation Management in the March-April issue of Today’s Campus VA-Tech’s VP for University Relations, Lawrence Hincker, says the author’s “facts are wrong,” and wants to clear-up any misunderstanding. His letter to the editor and more inside.

    -Today's Campus
  • Keith Hampson Interviews Josh Keller on Interactive Graphics for Higher Education
    Josh, I’ve long been a fan of your information graphics that you’ve produced for the Chronicle. What do you see as the value and purpose for creating these kinds of materials for its readers?
  • Non-Disruptive Innovation in Higher Ed - The Case of OESPs
    “Disruptive innovation”, introduced by Clayton Christensen and now stretched almost beyond recognition through misuse, actually refers to a unique and specific type of change in markets. A new product or service is introduced that offers a different set of benefits...
  • Academic Technology - It's Not All About You
    If you teach in higher ed, you’ve probably complained about your school’s LMS. Well, I’m here to tell you that it’s not all about you, I’m afraid. That is, you’re not actually the client–not at most schools. The university is the client; they sign the cheque. Like so many things in higher ed, the end-user and the client are not the same.
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    Solving the Student Debt Problem
    Two-thirds of all students now borrow and the average amount borrowed spiked 5 percent in the last year alone, to approximately $25,000, while one in 10 students borrow in excess of $40,000. Meanwhile, the national federal student loan cohort default rate rose for the fourth straight year and reached its highest mark since 1997.  Default is just the tip of the iceberg...


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Student Loan Intelligence
  • One common peculiarity among U.S. student loans
    For all U.S. student loans - government and private - a borrower has no bankruptcy protection. Later in life, if you experience financial difficulties severe enough to declare bankruptcy, by today's law you will not erase or liquidate any of your student loans.

    Delinquent and defaulted borrowers who face a non-dischargeable balance that keeps growing with added interest and penalty fees refer to their circumstances as "Student Loan Hell." More

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