JANUARY 8, 2025 | composed by STEVE ULRICH

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💸 Which Colleges Always Lose Money?
👑 Patberg Named CUNYAC Commissioner
🤼‍♀️ Three Teams Seeded in NWCA Women’s National Duals
🤼‍♂️ Wartburg Tops Pre-National Duals Rankings

📆 What’s Happening This Week. The women’s volleyball rules committee meets today and Wednesday. The Board of Governors Finance and Audit Committee meets today, while the BOG Executive Committee gathers on Thursday. And the Council of Independent Colleges and Universities holds its annual Presidents Institute in San Antonio concludes today.

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1. Which Colleges Always Lose Money?

by Robert Kelchen

“It is safe to say that there is a lot of concern right now about the financial viability of higher education. And while I think fewer colleges are going to close than pundits predict (and check out my recent NBER working paper on factors associated with college closures), it is still going to be a bumpy ride as colleges try to cut costs after efforts to increase revenue are unsuccessful.

By far, the most popular piece on my blog in 2024 (representing nearly one-fourth of all traffic to my website) was a fairly quick look at which private colleges consistently lost money over the last decade. Now that a new year of data on institutional finances (through Fiscal Year 2023) came out through the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System, I am revisiting this and also including public universities.”

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