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My 2025 Higher Ed Finance Reading List

Robert Kelchen

I hope that everyone had a restful break and is excited to come back for what will undoubtedly be an eventful year in the world of higher education. To add to the excitement of the coming few months, I have the pleasure of teaching my PhD class in higher education finance again. Department of Education.

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Study: Latino Students Use Practical Strategies to Finance College Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The report, "How Latinos Pay for College: 2025 National Trends," builds on two decades of research and reveals that while Latino students demonstrate high financial need, they are employing effective cost-saving measures to make higher education affordable.

Finance 164
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Remembering Dr. Willis Braswell Sheftall Jr.

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

a pioneering educator who served for more than a decade as provost of his alma mater, Morehouse College, and later acting president, died last week at the age of 80. Born in in Macon, Georgia, Sheftall became known as an economist with a particular interest in the economics of higher education, local public finance, and U.S.

Finance 267
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Native American Representation in Finance Key to Sovereignty

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Building this diverse representation within banking will take deliberate and intentional efforts across multiple sectors, including higher education. The study urged industry leaders to start acquainting young Native Americans to financial career opportunities early on, well before they enter higher education.

Finance 256
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My 2024 Higher Education Finance Reading List

Robert Kelchen

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. I use articles, working papers, news coverage, and other online resources to provide a current look at the state of higher education finance. Friedman, J.

Finance 189
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The Sooner, The Better: Building Financial Literacy Among Black Students (and Communities)

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Nonetheless, on offerings, we were pleasantly surprised to find the following 2024 data by the Council for Economic Education News: Opportunities have greatly improved for young people across America to learn the essential personal finance knowledge they need to reach their full life-long economic potential.

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Which Colleges Always Lose Money?

Robert Kelchen

It is safe to say that there is a lot of concern right now about the financial viability of higher education. Now that a new year of data on institutional finances (through Fiscal Year 2023) came out through the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System , I am revisiting this and also including public universities.