Reporting on higher education finance and operations requires background information on how colleges are funded, whether they are financially secure and how their facilities are maintained
Little has changed regarding the financial underpinnings of American higher education in the nearly 400 years since Rev. John Harvard gave his library to what would become known — in commemoration o
Some key concepts explained for a better understanding of this topic
Those vaunted multibillion-dollar university and college endowments that get so much attention are worth a closer look
Hidden deep inside College Navigator is a particularly helpful clue to a university or college’s financial health: the proportion of its entering students who get institutional financial aid
By definition, university finance and operations data is scattered among myriad sources, including everything from financial audits to enrollment reports and financial aid disbursements
While much of the attention about higher education borrowing is focused on student loans, universities and colleges have taken out extensive amounts of debt and collectively owe about a quarter of a t