June 30 marks the end of the fiscal year for many colleges, and the financial reports that result may supply the first real news about the recession's impact on higher education. After this year's plunging prices on investment holdings and unprecedented squeeze on credit, colleges may not like what they see when they close their books on June 30. (Photograph from Getty Images)
The Education Department says it is not singling out for-profit institutions as it starts developing new, and probably stricter, rules. But the changes may affect those institutions the most.
Read the transcript of a live chat with Gretchen C. Dobson, who oversees Tufts University's domestic and international alumni chapters, about how alumni networks are an important element in any institution's internationalization strategy.
