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This Week In College Viability (TWICV) for Sep 22, 2025
This week’s theme: “challenging the enrollment spin”. I have a set of colleges on today’s show that would like us to believe that they are winning the higher educati...
This Week In College Viability (TWICV) for Sep 15, 2025
'Wicked' college experience at Ann Arbor MI football game shows what the value of college could be. One of the ways I unwind during the last part of each day is to wa...
This Week In College Viability (TWICV) Special - Requiem for a College with Jonathan Nichols and Kate Colbert
The 2nd edition of Requiem for a College 2nd edition by Jonathan Nichols is a deeply personal and cautionary tale that explores the growing trend of college closures i...
This Week In College Viability (TWICV) for September 8, 2025
A long start to this week's podcast. I take a detailed look at how colleges spin their enrollment and focus on the financial health data of one college in PA as an ex...
This Week In College Viability: A Special Conversation with a Small, Private College CFO
I talk about college finances and colleges spinning their numbers regularly. This is the first time I have had a CFO (interim) come onto the podcast to share the star...
This Week In College Viability (TWICV) for Sep 1 2025: Best of w Azziz and Langteau
I am releasing my first 'Best Of' This Week in College Viability podcast. You will here from 2 short clips during the podcast from former college presidents.Dr. Paula...
This Week In College Viability (TWICV) for Aug 25, 2025
Lots and lots and lots of enrollment announcements last week. So, I decided to do a little tally exercise. You will be interested to see how many of these greate enr...
Ricardo Azziz: The M&A Economics of Higher Education- SPH Consulting Group (August 2025)
Here are the questions Dr. Azziz answered during the podcast 1. You are in the middle of a research project to determine the seating capacity of the entire higher educ...
This Week In College Viability (TWICV) for August 18, 2025
TWICV News and Commentary for August 18 2024 I had a higher ed friend send me a story on Sunday about an Iowa private college. The spin was silly and obvious. A l...
This Week In College Viability (TWICV) with Shellee Howard of College Ready
Shellee Howard is the founder and CEO of College Ready, a college graduate, and a Certified Educational Planner. Her son graduated from Harvard in the spring of 2016 d...
This Week In College Viability (TWICV) for Aug 11, 2025
This is the podcast that talks about the financial health and viability of public and private colleges with data, details and perspectives offered nowhere else. This ...
This Week In College Viability (TWICV) for August 4, 2025
This Week in College Viability is the alternative higher education media source for college stakeholders.This was a big weekend here at College Viability. We released...
This Week In College Viability (TWICV) for July 28, 2025
For the July 28th This Week in College Viability podcast, I have: + A college president who must be dizzy with the spin she is trying to impart on a very difficult fin...
This Week In College Viability (TWICV) for July 21, 2025
Here are the headlines from today's podcast+ Vague layoffs and a merger+ Maine university system approves accelerated degree programs to address workforce gaps+ Are t...
This Week In College Viability (TWICV) for July 14, 2025
This is the podcast that talks about the financial health and viability of public and private colleges with data, details and perspectives offered nowhere else.+ More ...
TWICV Special Episode: Closing College Teach-Outs with Dr. Paula Langteau
Dr. Paula Langteau experienced a college closure first hand as President of Presentation College. Her efforts provide a positive example on how to provide guidance an...
This Week In College Viability (TWICV) for July 7, 2025
Here are some of the news and commentary stories for July 7, 2025+ Siena Heights University announces closure+ Indiana colleges cut hundreds of low-enrollment degree p...