Links for 2/26/10

Scott Jaschik

The median raise for senior administrators at colleges and universities for 2009-10 is no raise at all -- 0 percent -- according to a survey being released today by the College and University Professional Association for Human Resources…

Edububble

If they don’t keep boosting revenues, “excellence” might be destroyed…

Kevin Carey

colleges respond to incentives. Higher education accountability works. If Congress hadn’t exempted HBCUs in 1990, it would have worked earlier. Gentle suggestions that autonomous institutions make difficult changes tend not to be very effective. Nor is it enough to simply report information. The default rates in question had been public knowledge for years. It wasn’t until Congress actually attached consequences to the numbers that the colleges sat up and took notice…

I’m always amazed at how colleges are so quick to argue from their own lack of academic integrity (”Don’t push me or I’ll start churning out worthless degrees!”)…

Erin Dillon

We found that while student characteristics do matter, they are certainly not the only predictor of an institution’s default rate, and that institutional characteristics, particularly a school’s ability to retain and graduate its students, are critically important to reducing loan default rates. Basically, that institutions matter—and they matter a lot…