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A public university wants to privatize advancement jobs

Confessions of a Community College Dean

“The University will submit a plan that necessitates ensuring that the UMass Amherst Foundation, not UMass Amherst, performs most of the advancement and fundraising work to maintain legal compliance moving forward,” Duffy wrote. Advancement employees, some of whom have been at the university for decades, were shocked and upset.

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The Future of Public Funding in Higher Education: The Changing Face of Higher Ed Part 6

The Change Leader, Inc.

BestColleges.coms blog points out that in 1973, tuition for one year at a private college averaged $9,876, while in-state public schools had annual tuition of $2,175. However, in 1975, college costs started increasing at a rate that, on average, was 5-6 percent higher than inflation.In