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2025 trends: What higher ed can learn from retail

University Business

Whether its paying tuition, managing housing, or accessing campus services, they demand the same seamless experience they get from brands like Target or Amazon. While Gen Z was once thought to be credit-averse, nearly 50% of undergraduates now use credit cards for school expenses such as books and tuition.

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Have Academic Library Staffing Numbers Really Declined That Much Over the Past Decade?

Confessions of a Community College Dean

The idea that academic library budgets are fungible shows ignorance of how these budgets work. Over the past couple of weeks, I worked with a number of academic librarians and an expert in higher ed finance to create a series of Q&As that explored academic library funding. Again, fair criticism.

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The College’s 2024 fiscal year budget, explained - Luke Chinman and Izzy Polanco, the Williams Record

Ray Schroeder

The 2024 fiscal year budget includes $292 million in operating expenses, a 3.4-percent The Board of Trustees approved the budget at its April meeting. The Board of Trustees approved the budget at its April meeting. Managers’ cuts reduced expenses in the final budget by roughly $9 million.

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College Finances: Not Only a First-Generation Struggle

Higher Ed Connects: Student Success Blogs

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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Interest rate changes could challenge universities, student loans and post 16 and vocational education

SRHE

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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A Quick Financial Q&A 

PUC

Create a budget to manage your finances effectively. Financial Literacy: Educate yourself on basic financial concepts like budgeting, investing, and managing debt. Utilize online resources and consider e-books when available. What financial advice should high school students know before college?

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How Can We Bring Many More Students to Math, Data and Statistical Literacy?

Confessions of a Community College Dean

These include classes in biostatistics, climatology, computational modeling of behavior, computational social science, epidemiology, finance, genomics, investment analytics, materials science, medicine, risk management and supply chain analysis. As Galileo noted, the book of nature is written in the language of mathematics.