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Planning to Meet Your School’s Student and Operational Needs

Higher Ed Connects: Student Success Blogs

Especially with today’s demographic changes, like the decreasing birth rate and increasing numbers of nontraditional students , colleges need to find out what’s going on in the student marketplace so they can give the students what they want within their operational objectives. Case Study Two: Hampshire College.

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A small college is failing. Is a rich Canadian to blame?

Confessions of a Community College Dean

As fundraising fell far short of the goal , Chung stepped in with a $2 million loan. But employees say the partnership with Primacorp blew the institution way off course, with administrators pursuing initiatives that have failed to yield new enrollments.