Colleges Brace for the Economic Downturn

Dave Allen

Most of the 1990's were boom years for American higher education, with enormous gifts, unprecedented endowment growth, and year after year of healthy increases in enrollment and state support.

The outlook today appears quite

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First Person

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Commentary

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Past Coverage

Where Have All the Out-of-Staters Gone? - August 10, 2009
Malaysia Says Its Education Industry Will Benefit From Economic Downturn - January 12, 2009
Modest Tuition Increases of Last 2 Years May End - October 8, 2008
South Atlantic Colleges Brace for Population Growth - August 24, 2009
Tuition at American Colleges Rose Moderately - October 17, 2008

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