college education
Paying for College: Paying for the Athletic Department
By Ann Logue on January 29, 2013
The lovely and talented John Warner writes that coach’s salaries should be part of the higher education discussion. At the same time, the Chicago Public Schools have suspended two coaches for bad behavior during a game that ended with a shooting in the parking lot afterward. I’m a believer in sports for kids and adults. [...]
Posted in College Admissions and Costs, Political Discourse | Tagged athletic scholarships, athletics, budget cuts, college education, college football, John Warner, paying for college | Leave a response
End of the Semester Stress Busters
By Ann Logue on December 6, 2012
UIC’s student wellness center has compiled a set of online stress-busting activities, in case you need some. I’m giving a final today, with plenty of stressed students.
Posted in Teaching Finance | Tagged college education, stress, UIC | Leave a response
Paying for College: What Do You Need to Learn?
By Ann Logue on August 14, 2012
I went to China to teach corporation finance and investment finance, two basic introductory classes taken by most business majors. Upon arrival in Chengdu, I discovered that there were no students enrolled in corporation finance, but they didn’t have anyone to teach accounting or business law. Could I?
Posted in College Admissions and Costs, Teaching Finance | Tagged academic bulimia, college education, course evaluations, curriculum design, paying for college | 1 Response
Paying for College: Not Everyone Should Go, But . . .
By Ann Logue on August 8, 2012
Higher education is expensive. The cost is especially high for people who attend for a while, then drop out. They incur the costs but not the benefits, and it’s got to be demoralizing, too. Not everyone should go to college. Certainly, not everyone should go to college at age 18. I believe this. Still, it [...]
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Paying for College: Looking at the Donors
By Ann Logue on July 31, 2012
America’s universities are mostly funded by private funds: tuition and donations. Yes, even private universities receive government funding, but the volume of state and federal dollars has been steadily declining. Who provides the money, and how much they give, affects the amount of non-loan financial aid available, what you get for that money, and how [...]
Posted in College Admissions and Costs, Fiduciary responsibility, Nonprofit and Endowment Management | Tagged boards of trustees, college education, donors, fundraising, non-profit managment, paying for college, scholarships, stewardship | Leave a response
Paying for College: What’s the NCAA worth, anyway?
By Ann Logue on July 26, 2012
I’ve talked about athletic scholarships here before, and I want to revisit them in the wake of the Penn State scandal. All the programs operate at the whim of the NCAA, which has a twisted sense of priorities. Money screws up everything, and if your kid is in a position for an athletic scholarship, you [...]
Posted in College Admissions and Costs | Tagged athletic scholarships, CalTech, college education, Jim Tressel, Joe Paterno, Mark Pelini, NCAA, Northwestern, Ohio State, paying for college, Penn State, student athletes | Leave a response
Paying for College: What Are You Buying, Anyway?
By Ann Logue on July 3, 2012
The big story in higher education circles last week was the firing and rehiring of Teresa Sullivan, the president of the University of Virginia. The ostensible reason for the firing was that she was not reacting quickly enough to the changing educational marketplace. But, of course, it’s hard to say what the right course of [...]
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