Got data? for interview today Feb 3 “Changing Course: Reinventing Colleges, Avoiding Closure” tlt.gs/ABrownChngCrs

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Changing Course: Reinventing Colleges, Avoiding Closure, Alice W. Brown  Jossey-Bass 2011 Friday, Feb 3, 2:00pm ET  Register Free: tlt.gs/frlv  

Alice Brown, Past Pres. Appalachian College Assoc, will be interviewed by  Steve Gilbert.

Need additional background data for recent years (e.g., 2005-2010) …

Colleges opening/closing - undergrad "seats" 

• Are more colleges closing or opening?

• Total # of colleges and universities in the United States went from XXXX to YYYY 
• Total # of colleges and universities in the US that closed, merged, or changed name (“reinvented itself”)?
• Total # of colleges, univs in the US that were launched?

•  Are there more private colleges for-profit and online? And fewer non-profit on-campus?
• Are there more/fewer applications for undergraduate enrollment? More/fewer applications per available opening?

Student/Faculty Ratio

• What is happening to the student faculty ratio? Overall? By institutional category? Online vs. on-campus?
• What is happening to the student full-time tenure track faculty ratio? student full-time non-tenure track faculty ratio? student part-time faculty ratio? Overall? By institutional category? Online vs. on-campus?

Financial Patterns How are financial patterns changing vis a vis

• Payment per course per student collected from the student or from someone on behalf of the student
• Operating cost per course
• Faculty salary per course

 

IIMAGE selected by Steve Gilbert 20120131

Photo of painting (1803) "Avalanche in the Alps" by Philipp Jakob Loutherbourg the Younger (1740–1812)

The Yorck Project: 10.000 Meisterwerke der Malerei. DVD-ROM, 2002. ISBN 3936122202. Distributed by DIRECTMEDIA Publishing GmbH.

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Philipp Jakob Loutherbourg the Younger [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

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