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What Financial Survival in Higher Ed Looks Like

In a new operating environment defined by political interference, funding uncertainty and cost pressure, solutions are less about silver bullets and more about discipline and speed.

Opinion

Transfer Without the Surprises

Part 1: What Michigan students are telling us about transfer.

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Opinion

Loan Caps Will Steer Students Toward Riskier Private Lending

The hope is that graduate loan caps will put pressure on institutions to lower costs. But the caps could cost students much more in the long run.

Opinion

Why You, Why Now, for Whom?

Applying advertising science to small college advertising.

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Opinion

The Self-Declared Pseudosabbatical

By treating breaks in the academic calendar more intentionally, faculty can carve out informal periods of time away between once-every-seven-years sabbaticals.

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Opinion

4 Questions Addressed in ‘After the Spike’

An argument for population decline to be included on the academic worry list.

Opinion

Frankencitations Ravage the Academic Countryside

An interview with an academic who has seen their impact up close and personal.

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Opinion

The Future Is Creative

Yet the proposed accountability framework tying programs’ eligibility for federal aid to graduate earning outcomes puts the future of arts education at risk.