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This Week In College Viability (TWICV) for December 9, 2024
This week's episode has some action in layoffs and cutbacks. I thought we had an imminent closure, but Keystone College is still trying to ride out a nearly impossibl...
This Week In College Viability (TWICV) for December 2, 2024
News and commentary stories this week: + Webster University’s financial distress from HLC. More of those designations coming?+ Keystone college could lose their accre...
This Week In College Viability (TWICV) for November 25, 2024
There is much higher education news this 2024 Thanksgiving week.Headlines+ Some layoffs and cutbacks this week+ 2 stories that suggest college leaders may be moving mo...
This Week In College Viability (TWICV) for November 18, 2024
It is the week before Thanksgiving and my prediction of the college closure rate picking up steam has not yet developed. I still believe that there are scores of coll...
This Week In College Viability (TWICV) for November 11, 2024
The Red Guy won and the Blue lady lost. I am guessing most of us have read and listened to countless stories about the outcome and potential future impact of last Tue...
This Week In College Viability (TWICV) for November 4, 2024
AI-generated takeawaysMore students are choosing not to pursue college education.Free tuition initiatives can lead to negative consequences for faculty and staff.Enrol...
This Week In College Viability (TWICV) Special with Robert Heil for October 30, 2024
Robert Heil, CEO of Financial Aid Services, joins me to talk about removing friction from the financial aid process, the importance of comparing good and bad 4-year gr...
This Week In College Viability (TWICV) for October 28 2024
This week we dissect and analyze:Trite strategic plansCash-Strapped Colleges Are Selling Their Prized Art and MansionsAdding sports teams is a leading indicator of col...
TWICV - Special Edition with Laura De Veau October 25, 2024
With consolidations in many forms moving through colleges, Dr. Laura De Veau speaks from experience.She addresses these quesstions in this special edition of 'This Wee...
This Week In College Viability (TWICV) for October 21, 2024
Headlines for the October 21, 2024 podcastMore on cutbacks and layoffsWhere are the Whit Students?College For All is Bad for BoysColumbia College (IL) takes big 2024 e...
This Week In College Viability (TWICV) for October 14, 2024
I want to start off this week’s podcast with a personal observation. I watched some 40- 50,000 people run in the Chicago Marathon yesterday. It was a spectacle of hu...
This Week In College Viability (TWICV) for October 7, 2024
This week’s top news and commentary:+ Yet another college sees football as enrollment salvation+ Standard and Poors: College competition and operational pain are the ‘...
This Week In College Viability (TWICV) for September 30, 2024
Headlines this week:+Elizabethtown College: Fun place or not?+Bradley University enrollment dips below 5,000 for first time in over 30 years+High Schools are closing t...
This Week In College Viability (TWICV) for September 23, 2024
This week's podcast focuses on desperation heaves and mea culpas'.I ask why can't college presidents be like college athletic coaches?For the first time ever, I announ...
This Week In College Viability (TWICV) for September 16, 2024
Welcome to the Sep 16 TWICV podcast.It is still summer in St. Louis. High 80’s most of this week. With any luck, the St. Louis Cardinals will be put out of their play...
TWICV special edition with Dr. David Evans
If I created titles for these podcasts, this one would be: Benefits of Hindsight in Closing a College.Dr. David Evans was the president of Vermont Southern College in...
This Week In College Viability TWICV for September 9, 2024
TWICV for September 9, 2024We have all survived our first full weekend of college and professional football, so let’s get to the headlines for this episode: + Cutback...
This Week In College Viability (TWICV)for Spetember 2 2024
Is it fair to critique the financial health and viability of colleges?I am a sports enthusiast. I rarely care who wins; but I enjoy watching the thrill of victory and...
TWICV for Aug 28 2024 with Ben Unglesbee from Higher Ed Dive
Here are the questions Ben Unglesbee addressed during our podcast interview.With all of the research and report you do, what is your sense of the stability of private ...
This Week In College Viability (TWICV) for August 26, 2024
This week's podcast starts with a WWII sampling bias story that strongly relates to college enrollment. My thanks to Jon Boeckenstedt for making the connection.+ Alve...
This Week In College Viability (TWICV) for August 19, 2024
If you think colleges are having troubles, here in St. Louis we can’t even get the city kids to school. The great St. Louis bus catastrophe kicks off today. My frien...
This Week In College Viability (TWICV) for August 12, 2024
Get the College Viability Student & Family updates here.College classes are beginning to bring students to campus for the Fall 2024 term. While the FAFSA Debacle is s...
This Week In College Viability (TWICV) Special with private college presidents Amy Novak and Todd Olson
St. Ambrose University President Amy Novak and Mount Mercy University President Todd Olson join me to discuss the strategic combination of their two organizations. Su...
This Week In College Viability (TWICV) for August 5 2024
The end of July and early August produced a really slow news week in higher education. My google alerts on many higher education topics produced more alumni obituarie...
TWICV special with Rebeka Mazzone CEO of FuturEDFinance
Here are the questions from my interview with Rebeka Mazzone, Founder and CEO of FutureEDFinance.Tell us briefly about Futuredfinance.Talk about finance as a lagging i...
This Week In College Viability (TWICV) for July 29, 2024
The end of July is upon us. The Olympics are all over the TV and news. I understand there is a presidential election in about 100 days. I just saw 5 Bucks and 3 doe...
TWICV for July 22 2024
Here are the lead news and commentary stories for July 22, 2024Get the College Viability Student & Family updates here.Layoffs, cutbacks, closures & FAFSA check ins. ...
This Week In College Viability (TWICV) for July 15, 2024
It was last Monday that Northwestern College (IL) (NOT University)announced its closure. They announced it on Monday. They had turned out the lights the previous Sat...