Higher Education Finance News
DC Policy Meeting Highlights Financial and Operational Changes in Higher Education
June 23, 2009
A June 23, 2009 Inside Higher Ed article (“Hazard or Opportunity?”) reported on a “meeting of educators and policy makers” sponsored by Jobs for the Future, the Lumina Foundation for Education, and Education Sector, among others. The meeting aimed at drawing lessons from recent difficulties faced by newspapers and healthcare providers, “industries that have been faced with similar technological and other pressures [as higher education] and have responded, on balance, not so well,” and how higher education institutions have responded to a host of technological, demographic and budgetary changes that are combining to increase the pressure on colleges and universities to increase the quality if the programs offered while controlling costs.
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