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This Week In College Viability (TWICV) for Nov 10 2025
The headlines for November 10, 2025:+ A college closure in Illinois. How many more colleges are having that discussion?+ IHE: 14 colleges with cutbacks and layoffs i...
This Week In College Viability (TWICV) for November 3, 2025
TWICV News and Commentary for November 3, 2025This is the podcast that talks about the financial health and viability of public and private colleges with data, details...
This Week In College Viability (TWICV) for Oct 27 2025
TWICV News and Commentary for Oct 27 2025This is the podcast that talks about the financial health and viability of public and private colleges with data, details and ...
This Week In College Viability (TWICV) for Oct, 20 2025
Podcasting sites were also impacted by the October 20th AWS issues. So, a day late, probably not a dollar short.Here are the show notes and links for stories in the O...
This Week In College Viability (TWICV) for Oct 13 2025
Each week I wade through dozens and dozens of higher ed stories from either referrals from others or my own Google Alert searches. The stories and commentary that mak...
This Week In College Viability (TWICV) for Oct 6, 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. Forwa...
This Week In College Viability (TWICV) Special episode: Steve Dittmore from Glory Days Substack
In my many years on this earth, I have coached youth sports, served as a basketball referee and baseball umpire for many of those years.As I watch the NIL and transfer...
This Week In College Viability (TWICV) for Sep 29 2025
Access does not equal success: You have heard me say many times that too many colleges focus on enrollment and not nearly enough on graduation rates. This phrase cap...
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...