This Week In College Viability (TWICV) for April 29, 2024

Apr 29 2024 • 32 mins

These are the news and commentary headlines for April 29, 2024
· Northland College (WI) just can’t find anyone to turn of the light switch.

· A really good student-written article about Drake U’s financial challenges

· Dubuque named and Spalding searching for new presidents. We will go to the data for both.

· Jon Marcus at Hechinger had one of his stories picked up by the WAPO.

· Colleges are now closing at a pace of one a week. What happens to the students? Most never finish their degrees, and alumni wonder about the value of degrees they’ve earned

· Amy Morona at Signal Cleveland continues to rise up my list of good HE reporters. This week we will talk about her story on Cleveland State.

· Dan Bauman from the Chronicle writes about colleges digging into their endowment more than ever. I am going to focus on WEU and something Dan writes about called going concern.

· Private regional colleges will face stiff competition from public institutions, Moody’s predicts

Show note links:

Northland officials sound a hopeful note after ‘transformative’ donations

Protests over budget cuts continue at Board of Trustees meeting

Drake’s budget: How did we get here?

This Under-the-Radar Pay Model Puts a Dollar Amount on Class Size

Colleges are now closing at a pace of one a week. What happens to the students?

‘We are at a point of reckoning’: Inside Cleveland State’s latest meeting about its financial future

Amid Financial Headwinds, Some Colleges are Digging Deeper Into Their Endowments. Will more follow?

Private regional colleges will face stiff competition from public institutions, Moody’s predicts

Will the FAFSA fiasco force current college students to drop out?

More Gen Zers could ditch college this fall — and some schools are worried they might never fully recover

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