Most higher ed employees are dealing with debt while struggling to meet short- and long-term financial goals, such as saving for retirement, a new analysis warns.
The net price full-time students attending four-year private institutions paid in 2024-25 has declined by almost 15% since 2006-07. At four-year publics: 43%
For Emily Kayser, the prospect of covering her son's college tuition on a teacher's salary is "scary. It's very stressful." To pay for it, "I'm thinking, what can I sell?" Kayser, who was touring Colby College in Waterville, Maine, with her high school-age son, Matt, is among the many Americans in the middle who earn […]
Students and their families fret about the rising costs of college tuition, but housing costs are rising faster. The average cost of a dorm room at a four-year college rose by 37% in 10 years, from $5,433 in the 2012-13 academic year to $7,456 in 2022-23, federal datashows. In the same span, tuition and fees […]
Historical campuses like my own offer a throughline for generations of students and stability through changes in society and evolutions in knowledge. Few other institutions can claim this legacy.
Higher ed funding, particularly at the state level, is not going in the direction one might expect at public colleges and universities a few years after the economic turmoil of the COVID pandemic. And neither is enrollment, according to a new analysis.
