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Agriculture Department Attempts to Keep Rural Colleges and Universities Afloat

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In the past three years, at least a dozen private, nonprofit universities and colleges in rural areas or that serve rural students have closed or announced their closings. And losing such a school can significantly affect the local community.

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3 Reasons We Joined the edX/2U University Partner Advisory Council

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Blog: Learning Innovation Last week, the three of us participated in the first in-person meeting of edX/2U’s recently constituted University Partner Advisory Council (UPAC). Separately and together, we sit on a number of advisory groups/councils of for-profit companies working with nonprofit universities in the online learning space.

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Student Loans, Basic Needs and the Public Good

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Public university attendees borrow an average of $32,880 to attain a bachelor’s degree. Private, nonprofit university attendees borrow $35,983. For context, some interesting student loan debt statistics from the Education Data Initiative. Private, for-profit students borrow $42,551. Basic Needs.

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Collaboration in Higher Education: How Can Universities Partner With Employers?       

HEMJ (Higher Ed Marketing Journal)

To realize these benefits, both universities and employers must actively pursue partnerships. Contact local businesses, including nonprofits. Universities can break the ice by reaching out to local businesses that operate in the industries that align with programs they offer.

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A better way to address revenue sharing and online marketing (letter)

Confessions of a Community College Dean

At this point, nearly every nonprofit university in the U.S. This exception to Title IV’s incentive compensation regulations was designed to allow a new generation of OPMs to shoulder that cost and the risk of starting programs, in exchange for a share of tuition. The strategy worked.

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3 Enrollment Boosting Strategies for Accredited Institutions: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 178 with Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Dr. David R. Decker

The Change Leader, Inc.

00:06:39] David Decker: Well, Franklin is a nonprofit university, and higher education, of course, as you said earlier, Drumm, is a public good; we all embrace that, acknowledge it, and celebrate it. Drumm McNaughton: Tell us a little about how your background in corporate America helped inform you in driving Franklin’s growth.

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Advocacy group survey: Faculty fear backlash for free speech

Confessions of a Community College Dean

four-year public and private nonprofit universities. Colm O’Muircheartaigh, a University of Chicago professor and academic director of the university’s Center for Survey Methodology, said, “SSRS is an entirely reputable research company.

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