Dan Bauman
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Saint Paul, MN, United States
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A University Had Big Goals for Expansion. Now, It’s Drastically Cutting Back.
In recent years, Saint Leo University, in Florida, has lost half its student body, a third of its staff, and more than half of its satellite campuses. → Read More
Why One Wealthy College Says It Needs to Cut Costs
Bates College occupies a fairly rarefied perch in higher education, but it hasn’t been immune to the inflationary pressures and rising expenses facing many institutions. → Read More
Number of New Chinese Students at U.S. Colleges Plummeted This Fall, Visa Data Show
But student-visa issuances over all held steady, thanks to an explosion in interest from India. → Read More
Higher Ed’s Work Force Has Returned to Its Pre-Pandemic Size
The sector added 3,400 jobs in August, according to estimates by the federal government. → Read More
A Pandemic-Era Cut With a Hidden Price Tag
Private colleges slashed retirement contributions to their employees by $729 million in 2020. → Read More
Despite Sky-High Inflation, No Sign Yet of Surging Tuition Costs
Muted fee inflation, coupled with the increased cost of most goods and services, is likely to squeeze colleges financially. → Read More
Two Years After Promising a ‘Transformational’ Partnership, the U. of Arizona and Zovio Part Ways
The plan was to create an online mega-university and extend Arizona’s reach, but the University of Arizona Global Campus struggled to turn a profit. → Read More
Will Your College Get Any Money From the Last Round of U.S. Covid Relief? Check Our List
The Education Department released an institution-by-institution breakdown of pandemic stimulus allocations. → Read More
How the Pandemic Hammered a Key U.S. Export: Education
A key measure of the economic activity generated by services to international students has shown a significant fall-off, federal data show. → Read More
In Its Latest Public Filings, Liberty U. Blasts the President Who Turned It Into a Billion-Dollar Behemoth
The university accuses Jerry Falwell Jr. and his family of benefiting from dubious transactions. Federal filings tell a more complicated story. → Read More
‘Whose Brilliant Idea Was This?': How Ohio State Successfully Trademarked the Word ‘THE’
Records show the unusual brand word wasn’t popular with everyone in the university community. And one expert called its approval “a very stupid decision.” → Read More
Some Colleges Pay for Space on a Classic Game Board. It Ain’t Monopoly Money.
Landing your campus’s name on the board and box can cost as much as $60,000 — unless you’re Harvard or MIT. → Read More
Congress Should Scrutinize Higher Ed’s Use of Predictive Analytics, Watchdog Says
They’re the invisible infrastructure undergirding many recruitment efforts and financial-aid offers. → Read More
Work in Public Education and Hate Chegg? You Might Be an Investor
State retirement funds in California, Kentucky, Ohio, and Texas ramped up their investments in the controversial ed-tech company during the pandemic. → Read More
39 Million Americans Went to College but Didn’t Earn a Degree. Here’s What We Know About Who Returned.
Most one-time students attended a community college before dropping out, and many of them returned to the same institution. → Read More
3 Things We Learned From the Latest Federal Employment and Enrollment Report
The share of high-school graduates going straight to college fell. But postsecondary grads’ employment rates look strong — with a catch. → Read More
How a President Decided It Was Time to Close His College
Lincoln College of Illinois was already weathering drops in enrollment and in operating revenue. Then came Covid-19 and a cyberattack. → Read More
Higher Ed’s Labor Force Is Nearly Back to Full Strength. Thank the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Colleges’ work force is just 40,000 jobs shy of what it was before the pandemic, after revisions to federal data. → Read More
Expect Defaults to Surge When Student-Loan Repayments Resume, Warns N.Y. Fed
Nearly a third of borrowers may be at high risk of default once large-scale forbearance ends, some analysts say. → Read More
The College That Drowned Itself in Red Ink
How Ohio Valley University ended up closing with just $188,000 in its bank accounts. → Read More