Kamis, 23 April 2015

Baptist Bible College Adopts Novel Name: Peak Academy Of Pennsylvania

Baptist Bible College & Seminary inwards Clarks Summit, PA changed its name to Summit University of Pennsylvania.  The establishment was founded inwards 1932 inwards Johnson City, NY as well as acquired the campus inwards Clarks Summit inwards 1968.  Summit University's enrollment is simply nether 1,000 students.

Senin, 20 April 2015

Bay Path Academy History

The Winter 2015 lawsuit of Bay Pathway, the alumni magazine of Bay Path University, includes a historical sketch of the institution.

The establishment was founded inwards Springfield, MA every bit co-educational Bay Path Institute inwards 1897. It moved to Longmeadow, MA inwards 1945 in addition to the refer was changed to Bay Path Secretarial School. It became Bay Path Junior College inwards 1949. Baccalaureate programs were added later on 1988 in addition to it changed the refer to Bay Path College. H5N1 in conclusion refer modify to Bay Path University was made inwards 2014.

Rabu, 15 April 2015

Finances At Women's Colleges...And At Sweetness Briar College...May Hold Upward Improve Than You've Been Led To Believe

Reading articles together with weblog posts over the past times few weeks alongside authors speculating most the prospects for women's colleges led me to come across if this mightiness endure a proficient fourth dimension to calculate a few fiscal ratios together with play a flake alongside Tableau Public's visualization software.  

I surely learned a lot together with enjoyed the opportunity.  I accept also concluded that analysis of fiscal information available through the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) suggests that the fiscal wellness of women's colleges generally, together with Sweet Briar College inward particular, may endure improving together with is amend than what y'all mightiness think.  

The next tables summarize information for 2 five-year periods for 46 institutions...members of the Women's College Coalition that study fiscal information to IPEDS.  There are also a dyad of institutions included that were women's institutions during the early on years of this past times decade before deciding to acknowledge men equally students.  These were retained since women yet comprised 90% or to a greater extent than of their enrollment.  

The analysis used follows a model set out past times Bain together with Company alongside their Sterling Partners on The Sustainable University website.  These pages are enjoying a flake of resurgence inward popularity amidst pundits together with are typically cited favorably equally evidence that higher instruction is on shaky fiscal footing.  In contrast, I flora that few, if any, critics of the approach provided whatever evidence that they attempted to replicate the analysis initially published inward a brief linked off the site together with authored past times Jeff Denneen together with Tom Dretler.  Instead, most comments inward this latter category focus on the many organizational together with policy suggestions offered. 

To set it simply, I wanted to come across if the model mightiness work.  The ratios are tardily to calculate together with furnish an added exercise goodness that y'all tin compare both populace together with someone institutions.  So, I started alongside information from the FY 2004-FY 2008 fourth dimension frame together with flora that 8 institutions, or 17% of those inward the study were characterized equally "financially sound."  

The issue considered "financially sound" together with therefore rose to 32 institutions, or 70% of the grouping when using FY 2009-FY 2013 data.  The fiscal province of affairs for Sweet Briar College showed like signs of improvement during this period, moving from prison theater cellphone A-3 to C-2 inward the next tables.  The i women's establishment inward the grouping that did unopen at the halt of FY 2014 was Lexington College inward Chicago, IL together with it landed inward prison theater cellphone A-3.

The procedure for placing institutions inward cells involves calculation of the differences inward 2 ratios betwixt 2 points inward time.  Three cells inward the upper correct mitt corner reverberate increasing expenses equally a per centum of revenues together with declining internet assets equally a per centum of full assets...and are considered equally unsustainable for institutions.  In contrast, the ideal province of affairs represented inward prison theater cellphone C1 inward the next tabular array results from decreasing expense ratios together with positive changes inward the equity ratios.

The electrical flow Sustainable University site indicates that it is updated for 2014 together with classifies 43% of the institutions equally unsustainable, spending to a greater extent than than they tin afford.  Note that this electrical flow 2014 update appears to encompass a half-dozen twelvemonth menstruation spanning FY 2007 through FY 2012.   The initial briefing newspaper linked from the site that I mentioned previously appears to accept used information from FY 2006 through FY 2010.

I also used the same IPEDS information for the women's colleges together with universities to exercise a quick dashboard inward Tableau Public that is inserted below.  You tin hover over the views to come across an institution's hollo alongside the corresponding values or y'all tin access the information set upwardly through Tableau.


The initial persuasion inward the dashboard places institutions on the map alongside the size of the marking determined past times Fall 2013 FTE enrollment together with the coloring cloth past times their classification.  The persuasion inward the lower correct mitt corner places institutions past times their ratios for the FY 2009 through FY 2013 period...please complaint that the vertical axis hither is reversed from that used for The Sustainable University model described above.  Finally, the persuasion inward the lower correct mitt corner plots 2 FTE enrollment figures for each institution.

With the exception of Lexington College mentioned previously, it surely appears that three-fourths of the women's colleges together with universities were inward a healthier fiscal seat at the halt of FY 2013 than they were 5 years earlier.

Thanks for reading together with I am looking forrard to your feedback together with suggestions!

Inspired To Teach, A Novel History Explores The History Of The College Of Sarum St. Michael

The Old Students' Association for the College of Sarum St. Michael announces the publication of a history for the onetime establishment that provided instructor preparation from 1841-1978.  Inspired to Teach is written yesteryear Jenny Head too Anne Johns.  Both spider web sites include too include links to a diverseness of interesting pages too links for ordering the book.

Middlesex County College Celebrates 50Th Anniversary

Middlesex County College inward Edison, NJ is celebrating a 50th anniversary on Apr 19, 2015.  Susan Loyer reports for myCentralJersey.com on an upcoming opened upwards household as well as the proclamation of a novel history of the college, Endless Possibilities Middlesex County College 1964-2014.

A Twelvemonth Of Nutrient Life

The JSRRC Multicultural Enrichment Council late hosted the latest “Around the World Through Books” give-and-take on Barbara Kingsolver’s Ani...