Businesses benefit from the colleges and universities in their communities. Universities create a consistent demand for goods and services from students, their families, faculty and staff especially ...

These schools, with fewer than 4,000 students each, offer top academics, plus greater access to faculty and more protection from federal funding cuts, than at big research universities. The ...

Supplement in print: Order print copies of the Endowments supplements from June 2006 and August 2005 With all academe’s interest in endowment growth, we may sometimes lose sight of the fact that a ...

Peter Pitts (aka Small College Guy) is a retired admission officer who loves small colleges. This is excerpted from a Facebook post with permission. Your son or daughter is totally undecided about a ...

T his is crunch time for the budgets of small private colleges, as leadership begins to get a sense of what fall enrollment will look like following this spring’s FAFSA fiasco. As of mid-May, only ...

Grinnell College is one of the small liberal arts colleges that could see a huge increase in its endowment taxes under the new reconciliation tax and spending bill. The tax and spending bill passed by ...

Cabrini University hoped to save itself. Enrollment at the small, Catholic liberal arts college in Radnor, Pennsylvania, had fallen more than 60 percent since 2016, putting the tuition-dependent ...

The notice of a college closing is almost a weekly occurrence now. We have known for more than a decade that the combination of a declining number of high school graduates and tuition and fees that ...

When Northeastern University announced its intentions to merge with Mills College in 2021, students attending Mills responded with protest and a series of campaigns to halt what they called an ...