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 ...

Asthe college search and application season gets underway, high school students and their parents have a lot to consider—from academics, to admission rates, to, crucially, the net cost of 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 ...

Higher education is changing. This year alone, large colleges throughout Ohio announced plans to cut spending by eliminating degree programs in response to declining enrollment numbers and other ...

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 ...

Small private colleges are working together to lobby against the sweeping budget bill making its way through Congress that would hike taxes on endowments and land with particular force on their ...

Students at Ursuline College navigate an uncertain future. A perfect storm of rising costs and enrollment challenges has some small private colleges in Ohio, and across the country, facing an ...

Dozens of regional public and private colleges have eliminated jobs and programs this summer to close budget gaps as enrollment and tuition revenues shrink heading into the fall semester. The cuts ...

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 ...

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 ...