There are seven areas of oversight that trustees of higher education institutions should consider as fiduciaries. Mistakes in any of these areas can negatively impact the expected growth and risk profile of the portfolio, and in turn, the institution’s financial well-being.
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4/16/2013
As college costs continue to increase, legislators say new programs, which entail different eligibility requirements and funding streams for federal financial student aid, could become components of the HEA, pending its reauthorization later this year.
4/16/2013
Budget bills mark first big boost in years for education spending, legislators say.
4/16/2013
A diverse team of leaders in industry, education and government have come up with plans to improve the number of youth and adults who earn their college degrees.
4/16/2013
Students who want to take online college classes could have access to an expanded array of options under a proposal designed to make it easier for universities to offer online courses across state lines.
4/16/2013
Higher education executives won support Monday for legislative relief from an “unintended consequence” of Gov. Bobby Jindal’s pension plan for new employee hires. The employer contribution would drop to 1.8 percent under Jindal’s plan instead of today’s 5.7 percent rate.
4/16/2013
The director of Higher Education Programs at the Southern Education Foundation says more than half of students in the nation's community colleges and nearly 70 percent of students attending Minority-Serving Institutions require at least one developmental education course en route to a college degree.
4/16/2013
Student loan burdens are growing fastest among the over-60 crowd, many of whom sought graduate degrees during the recession.
4/16/2013
DeVry Inc., operator of private colleges and training schools, said in an SEC filing that its practices are being investigated by the attorneys general in Illinois and Massachusetts.
4/16/2013
Virginia Commonwealth University is considering “market-based tuition pricing” for next year that would charge for each credit hour rather than a set rate for a full-time student.
4/16/2013
It’s not just about pinning pretty pictures anymore. Pinterest, the image-sharing social media site, recently unveiled a new analytics tool that measures user engagement, further proof of the site’s massive popularity. This latest development in social media dashboards is providing higher education marketers with new insight into what makes an impression on student and alumni audiences.
4/16/2013
NetDocuments has announced its cloud-based document management service has been implemented at Yale University in the office of general counsel and the president’s office.
4/16/2013
Webster University has signed agreements with Adobe, a software company; Cisco, a network infrastructure provider; and Qualtrics, a provider of enterprise research software, to develop deeper relationships with these three critical global IT supply chain providers.
4/16/2013
ASSA ABLOY, maker of door opening solutions, announces a strategic partnership with leading access control hardware provider Lenel, to integrate ASSA ABLOY’s line of Aperio wireless locking devices with the Lenel OnGuard platform.
4/16/2013
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