Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 22, 2023

Image: Facing a budget deficit of $5 million, Southern Oregon University is considering a realignment plan that will include deep cuts, which its president says are necessary to right the ship financially. The new president first learned about the depth of SOU’s budget woes during his third day on the job.

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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. The higher education finance landscape and data sources Chetty, R., Understanding budgets.

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Higher Ed Connects: Student Success Blogs

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

There are many stories to be told about students of color in college, and as I wrote in a column for Inside Higher Ed, finances are often the main issue for these students. How to shop, budget money, work — and all the while attending classes. by Terri E. I was 19 years old and learning how to take care of myself.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

NACUBO also found that colleges increased their endowment spending, with dollars increasingly flowing toward institutional operating budgets, largely focused on student financial aid. The median percentage of budgets funded by endowments was 5.3 percent overall average return in 2021. Is this Career Advice newsletter?:

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

3, Interim President Stockwell Day—a former Canadian minister of finance—noted that the college wasn’t close to hitting the $2.6 “And sure enough, in the budget cuts, one of the first things they said was they wouldn’t be offering free Chick-fil-A anymore. Still, he noted, students are worried.

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Creatrix Campus

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Let's investigate the value of data analysis in education in this blog article and emphasize its possible advantages for educational specialists. Efficient allocation of budgets and staff. Chief Financial Officers : Utilize diverse data for real-time and future financial decisions, aiding in cost management and resource allocation.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

The courses can require colleges to negotiate articulation agreements with school districts or schools, evaluate faculty, add IT infrastructure, and hire personnel dedicated to enrollment management, advising and supports for high school students, among other needs, all of which take time and money. percent of its total budget.

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SRHE

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

If there is another 0.25% increase in the base rate, as is widely anticipated, this will place government and university finances under further pressure over the next few years with significant negative implications for HE students, the UK Government’s education budget in general and the further education college budget in particular.

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Higher Ed Connects: Student Success Blogs

FEBRUARY 15, 2020

As a first-generation student , I have experienced the struggle of trying to finance an education while working long hours and balancing family demands. The legislature cut the budget for community colleges while allowing increased fees as noted in a 2018 article, “fee hikes will not be sufficient in making up the entire shortfall.

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SRHE

MAY 28, 2024

The OED offers no more than “The act or manner of governing” and, misleadingly in respect to universities, defines a governing body as “the managers of the institution” ignoring the concept of ‘shared governance’ between governing bodies and senates implicit historically in the constitutions of most pre-1992 universities.

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EAB

DECEMBER 20, 2022

These responses doubled those of the prior year’s survey, and they far exceeded other common retention threats such as finances and academic difficulty. Mental help support is resource intensive by nature and may become harder to fund if institutional budgets tighten during the post-pandemic economy.

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Higher Ed Connects: News

AUGUST 28, 2019

This article originally appeared on Inside Higher Ed on August 5, 2019. The skills needed involve planning programs, managing budgets and understanding curricular development, as well as people skills that enable you to work effectively with students and faculty members. Colleges and universities are great places to work.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

MARCH 29, 2017

That type of student participation continues the top-down decision-making management chain that characterized the late 1900s. The whole idea was for us to communicate and to discuss any problems or concerns that they had or I had, Koldus said in a Texas A&M Foundation article.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 3, 2023

Mumpower told lawmakers that university leaders should have foreseen a housing crisis, given that it more than quadrupled its 2022–23 scholarship budget to $28.3 “In the fall of 2021, management decided to conduct an extensive recruiting campaign to bring in more students, which by itself is not an issue. million, from $5.2

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 27, 2023

” And the last bill would mandate training programs in financial higher ed management for members of institutions’ governing boards. Brian Bridges, New Jersey’s secretary of higher education, said the legislation would help ensure that investment is managed responsibly. New Jersey invested nearly $2.8

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University Business

APRIL 2, 2025

Higher education finance is at a turning point. Institutions must move beyond traditional accounting methods and embrace predictive analytics, AI-driven grant management, and real-time financial monitoring to remain competitive. Automated alerts can notify finance teams when budgets exceed thresholds or financial anomalies arise.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 11, 2023

The Education Department on Tuesday unveiled the details of its planned overhaul of income-driven repayment, which could transform the financing of higher education by providing more generous student loan repayment and forgiveness terms. Over all, the changes are expected to have a net budget impact of $137.9

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Higher Education Inquirer

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

But in my other writing Ive noted the epochal crisis hitting Canadian higher education, as the nations decision to cut international enrollment has struck institutional finances. Additional lecturers will receive notice that no work will be available in fall 2025 Four management positions and 12 staff positions also will be eliminated.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Several large universities, including West Virginia University and the University of Nebraska Lincoln, faced significant budget cuts. The growing complexities and pressures make the role challenging for a single individual to manage effectively.

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Higher Education Inquirer

JANUARY 28, 2025

With an annual budget of about $242 billion, it helps fund approximately 98,000 public schools and 32,000 private schools serving kindergarten through grade 12 as well as thousands of colleges, universities, vocational schools and other higher education institutions. The resulting article is a must-read for journalists covering this topic.

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