This article is part of the Finance Committee Chair Toolkit, a resource that highlights a variety of perspectives, including how to assess disruptive scenarios and what types of actions to consider. Despite our progress in democratizing higher education, it seems that racial …

The University System of Georgia (USG) prides itself on its place within the US public higher education landscape. Governed by a single board of regents, we are a system of 26 distinct institutions that range from public research universities to …

June 14, 2019 - Watch this Webinar On Demand which surveys the higher education cost and quality ideas with currency at the highest level of national politics, and the objectives, evidence, and rationales behind them.

June 6, 2019 - Watch this Webinar On Demand. What exactly do institutions mean by merit? If students are admitted only on the basis of “merit,” independent of “subjective” factors, what does that mean?

May 30, 2019 - Watch this Webinar On Demand. $1,500,000,000,000. That’s a lot of zeroes. Put another way, Americans hold roughly twice as much student debt as credit card debt. Coupled with the high price tags of selective residential institutions, …

How long can we continue these tuition increases?” a long-serving and respected trustee asked during one of my first board meetings at Utica College. It was spring of 2005, I was a new trustee, and I wasn’t sure what I …

College costs and financial aid are perennial concerns, not only for students and families, but also for governing board members charged with ensuring institutions’ fiscal health and sustainability. Tuition discounting, the practice of awarding institutional financial aid to students who …

The federal Pell Grant program has provided grant aid to low- and moderate-income students since the mid-1970s. With a maximum award of $5,815 in 2016-17, the program makes it possible for many students for whom college would have been out …

As we emerge from the extreme financial pressures of the Great Recession, it is time for board members to take a step back and think about long-term strategies for ensuring that financial-aid policies are consistent with institutional mission at the …

In February 2011, the board of regents at Sewanee: The University of the South made a bold decision to cut the “sticker price” for a year by 10 percent. Bold, and also simple, the policy did not require many paragraphs …