Robert Kelchen

JANUARY 3, 2024

This spring, I get to teach my PhD class in higher education finance again—the eighth time that I have taught it in my eleven-year faculty career. Each time, I have updated the readings considerably as the field is moving quickly and I figure out what works best for the students. Eight economic facts on higher education.

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Robert Kelchen

JUNE 15, 2023

I have the pleasure of teaching my PhD class in higher education finance again at Tennessee this summer. Our students take classes year-round, and I am offering the class in a condensed five-week format this summer to best meet the needs of our students. Here is the reading list I am assigning my students for the course.

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Higher Education Inquirer

JANUARY 16, 2024

[Editor's note: This article first appeared at the Kelchen on Education blog.] This spring, I get to teach my PhD class in higher education finance again—the eighth time that I have taught it in my eleven-year faculty career. Here is the reading list I am assigning my students for the course. Friedman, J.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Image: Soaring inflation put a squeeze on college endowments in the 2021–22 fiscal year, driving returns down, according to the annual report from the National Association of College and University Business Officers The report , released today, is a marked change from the booming returns of fiscal year 2021 , when endowments soared.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Image: More than 18 million college students received federal COVID-19 emergency funds in the last two years—money that helped them stay in college and cover the cost of basic needs, the Education Department found in a new report on the federal aid. Nearly 13 million college students divvied up $19.5

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 21, 2023

Image: Higher education administrators say a change in the federal student aid formula could mean lower levels of financial aid for children whose parents run family farms or small businesses, and they want Congress to take action. million in 2021,” the commission’s report states.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 4, 2023

The institutions lost 13 percent of their employees nationally from January 2020 to April 2022, according to an estimate from EAB, a higher education consulting firm. The turnover rate at Pikes Peak State College, for example, nearly doubled between fiscal years 2021 and 2022, from 11 percent to 21 percent.

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