The Environment for Higher Education

At the request of the Planning Advisory Group, the College's office of Institutional Research and Planning prepared a report addressing Topics for the Assessment of the Environment for Higher Education. The report can be read here. Additional supporting documents are provided below.

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Structure of the Work Force Demographics Enrollment and Marketplace Trends Financial Trends Technology

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Structure of the Work Force

Changing Staffing and Compensation Patterns (pdf)

Trends in Instructional Staff (pdf)

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Demographics

Global University Enrollments (1 of 2)

Global University Enrollments (2 of 2)

International Student Enrollments (xlsx)

National Center for Educational Statistics Higher Education Enrollment Projections (pdf)

Student Resilience (pdf)

Top Countries (pdf)

US Income Trends and Tuition (pdf)

WICHE Projections of High School Graduates (pdf)

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Enrollment and Marketplace Trends

An Example of Competency Based Learning

Criteria for Accreditation

Department of Education Competency Based Learning

Earnings Premium for College Graduates (pdf)

Education Pays

Fact Sheet on AEI Analysis (pdf)

Fact Sheet on White House Rating System Proposal (pdf)

How College Shapes Lives (pdf)

Public Views of Higher Education (pdf)

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Financial Trends

Disruption in Higher Education

Endowment Market Values 1990 (pdf)

Endowment Market Values 2000 (pdf)

Endowment Market Values 2010 (pdf)

Endowment Market Values 2013 (pdf)

Endowment Rates of Return (pdf)

Low Cost Pathways to Degree (pdf)

Need for New Revenue Streams (pdf)

Rethinking Higher Education Business Models (pdf)

Student Debt (pdf)

US Income Trends and Tuition (pdf)

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Technology

10 Lessons Learned from MOOCs

Contribution to Cost Disease in Higher Education (pdf)

MOOCs – A Tsunami of Promises

New Models of Higher Education (pdf)

One Possible Future for Higher Education

Technology and the Broken Cost Model (pdf)

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