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What Does Uptick in College Mergers Mean for U.S. Higher Education?

BY BRIAN C. MITCHELL The higher education community is noticing with increasing interest and some alarm the growing number of mergers and acquisitions that occurred in American higher education in 2018.  Are there lessons that might be learned from these events? Here are some preliminary thoughts: We should not assume that what appears to be…

January 31, 2019 in Budget Issues, Undergraduates.

The Clash Between Data and Optics in Higher Education

BY BRIAN C. MITCHELL Earlier this month, Jeff Selingo wrote in The Washington Post about the coming era of consolidation among colleges and universities. Mr. Selingo based many of his comments on findings from a study by Parthenon-EY Education to which he also contributed. The study concluded that more than 800 American colleges exhibit factors that call into…

September 20, 2016 in Budget Issues, Undergraduates.

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