Moody’s Oct. report on higher ed
In October, Moody’s issued a special comment to subscribers on the impact of the credit crisis and the weak economy on U.S. higher ed. The report doesn’t sound many alarms and mostly suggests that good management and governance are more important than ever. However, they do ask the question: has tuition reached a tipping point? If so, we will see higher priced private colleges lose students to lower cost public and community colleges. If you’re at a high-priced college that is heavily tuition dependent and where students tend to graduate with greater debt than at peer schools, then, perhaps, you … Continue Reading