The Fundamental Nature of Tuition-Dependent Institutions “Colleges and universities, whether public or private,” Gabriel E. Kaplan stresses, “are embedded within market and political environments that place certain [external] demands and expectations” on higher education executives and internal constituents.[1] In that respect, the fundamental nature of tuition-dependent colleges and universities reflectsContinue Reading
A Practical Discovery about Tuition Discount Rates Among the many bytes of data driving decision making in institutions of higher education, the tuition discount rate, or “tuition discounting,” invites some of the most voluminous and discomfiting commentary in the public space. As the Google Ngram Chart below shows, tuition discountingContinue Reading
Introduction to a Decisive Matter A common vogue in education for some time, as an occasional paper by the Rand Corporation from nearly ten years ago attests, education leaders often assert that data-driven or evidence-based decision-making is improving the operations of their institutions and the outcomes of their students. DespiteContinue Reading
