Perspective on Higher Ed

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Things are changing in the world of Higher Ed….

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/playing-catch-up-in-college-completion/2011/09/12/gIQAegt6NK_graphic.html

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/obama-outlines-incentive-plan-to-reduce-college-tuition-costs/2012/01/27/gIQAc92fVQ_story.html

http://techcrunch.com/2011/04/10/peter-thiel-were-in-a-bubble-and-its-not-the-internet-its-higher-education/

https://www.google.com/

Smaller portions of state budgets are being dedicated to Higher Ed…

…Requiring tuitions to play a bigger role

Revenues continue to disappear.

http://www.google.com/imgres?hl=en&client=firefox-a&hs=uze&sa=X&tbo=d&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&channel=fflb&biw=551&bih=547&tbm=isch&tbnid=NrM6NHuzfBEKJM:&imgrefurl=https://www.tcrecord.org/Content.asp%3FContentId%3D12331&docid=z_NdLRcIO2u_vM&imgurl=

http://www.treasury.gov/press-center/press-releases/documents/the%20economics%20of%20higher%20education_report%20clean.pdf

The Value Proposition is being called into question.

http://www.time.com/time/interactive/0,31813,2072670,00.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/13/business/student-loans-weighing-down-a-generation-with-heavy-debt.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/13/business/student-loans-weighing-down-a-generation-with-heavy-debt.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/125979/

http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/125979/

http://newsweek.tumblr.com/post/31199829669/did-you-go-to-college-do-you-think-it-was-a-lousy

2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 201229%

30%

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33%

34%

Percentage of US Colleges and Universities in Top 500 of Interna-tional Ranking

From the Academic Ranking of World Universities

Competition is steadily increasing.

http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0316/p09s01-coop.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2012/mar/15/asian-universities-challenge-us-uk-domination

http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2012/mar/15/asian-universities-challenge-us-uk-domination

http://www.arwu.org/

Students taught in a typical auditorium class

(~200)

Students that completed Stanford’s “Introduction to Artificial Intelligence” online class

The technology for serious disruption is here.

http://www.cnn.com/2012/07/05/opinion/bennett-udacity-education/index.html

https://www.khanacademy.org/

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/service-oriented/stanford-expands-free-online-information-technology-course-offerings/8008





Cost-cutting is inevitable.

Harvard’s ratio of debt to assets is unsustainable, as it is for many universities.

http://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21567373-american-universities-represent-declining-value-money-their-students-not-what-it

http://vpf-web.harvard.edu/annualfinancial/pdfs/2012fullreport.pdf

http://vpf-web.harvard.edu/annualfinancial/pdfs/2012fullreport.pdf

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