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Survey Finding—Affordability Is Top Marketplace Challenge, According to College Administrators
In a survey of more than 100 thought leaders and senior administrators in higher education, a majority of them reported that “‘perceptions of unaffordability’ (willingness to pay), and ‘economic hardship’ (ability to pay)”, on the part of prospective students’ parents will likely be the top challenges their institutions face in 2013.
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Concordia University Responds to Higher Education Marketplace with Relevant Solution
By John Lawlor
We’re proud to share the news that Concordia University, St. Paul is reducing the tuition price of its traditional undergraduate program by $10,000 starting Fall 2013. The Lawlor Group has actively collaborated with Concordia’s leadership team for the past six months, focusing on how to most effectively communicate this important strategic initiative to a marketplace seeking relevant and meaningful solutions related to college affordability and investment value. We believe this bold response is a genuine reflection of the type of higher education entrepreneurism—edupreneurism—that is necessary for the sustainable future.
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Where Your Money Goes
By Tamar Lewin
In December, when President Obama was considering what the government should do to promote college affordability, he convened a White House round table with 10 college presidents, the head of a prominent education foundation, and Jane Wellman, whose tiny Delta Project on Postsecondary Education Costs, Productivity and Accountability has produced some of the best-regarded data and reports on the issue.
Ms. Wellman, a self-described data geek, started the Delta Project (named for the mathematical symbol for change) in 2006, not long before the recession and shriveling state revenues dragged the problem of spiraling tuition into the… Continue reading
Customized Pricing in Higher Education
By John Lawlor
Tis the season for the college spring, that period of time when the higher education marketplace is focused on price and the accompanying cost to attend college. While colleges struggle with finding the right price to charge, students and families are on a quest to find the best price to pay. What often seems to be lost in the reenactment of the game show “The Price is Right” is that higher education has been practicing a form of customized differential pricing for quite some time—it just hasn’t been communicated very effectively.
This week we offer a… Continue reading
