Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 29, 2023

Image: Iowa Wesleyan University is closing, citing rising costs, shifting enrollment trends, declining fundraising and the governor’s rejection of a proposal for federal COVID-19 relief funds. Yet the university managed to hang on by securing philanthropic gifts and a USDA loan.

Finance 125

Finance Fundraising Federal Government Higher Education Administration 125

University Business

OCTOBER 9, 2023

The conflict between the federal government and GCU, one of the country’s largest Christian Universities in the nation, first began when it applied to be recognized as a non-profit to the Department of Education in 2019 to streamline its federal funding process. .”

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Government Federal Government Private Universities Faculty 52

Robert Kelchen

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

During the last three weeks, I have thought a lot about the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic in March 2020. Im now a veteran department head at a much better resourced university, but higher education is facing more uncertainty now than since March 2020 due to the bulldozer of the Trump administrations attempted and proposed changes.

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Higher Education Grants and Contracts Education Student Financial Aid 100