Add UMSL to the list of universities high off of a record enrollment this fall. Numbers the school released today show that its total enrollment of 16,548 students this year — a 5 percent increase over last year — breaks…
The trend that everyone expected to see this fall is coming true: enrollment at community colleges this fall has surged 12.8 percent.
That is the figure the Missouri Community College Association tabulated after getting the headcount on the first day of…
While many people’s stock portfolios have plummeted during the recession, the fund raisers over at UMSL have tapped into another more, um, delicate source of money: life insurance policies.
Martin Leifeld, UMSL’s chief fund raiser, told me that it’s usually never…
An email that came across my Inbox today is one more piece of proof that private universities have responded to the economic crisis with lower tuition increases than usual.
According to a survey of 350 independent colleges, the average tuition and…
Gateway Academy, a private Catholic school in Chesterfield for preschoolers through twelfth grade, will close its high school in the fall.
Administrators met with parents Wednesday night to tell them the news. They told parents there weren’t enough students to sustain the…
In a university-wide email today, Washington University Chancellor Mark Wrighton said the school “will mostly likely face significant financial problems in the next several years,” including a projected $20 to $25 million shortfall on the Danforth campus in fiscal year…
I usually don’t like to use this blog to promo upcoming events. But I thought this panel at WashU next week looked especially interesting and useful, especially since many families are nervously wondering these days how they will pay for…
In a year of lower-than-usual tuition increases in Missouri, the proposed tuition increases on the other side of the river at Southern Illinois University are especially eye-popping. It’s not set in stone yet, but the SIU board will consider next…
U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan warned today that he expects states and school districts to spend incoming stimulus money on true innovation, not the “status quo.”
Moreover, schools that do not spend the money on reform, he said, will not…
Southern Illinois University Carbondale announced today that it will start giving a 20 percent tuition break to low-income students from Illinois’ southern-most 34 counties.
The program, dubbed the Southern Stars Tuition Rate, will begin this fall with new, first-time freshmen and will…
