The final podcast show originating from St. Louis, MO.   Life is taking us to Colorado.  The podcasts will continue from there on April 27th.

This week:

+ Half off at Hopkins: Carey Business School offers steep discounts to Maryland grads

+ Maine puts the screws to private colleges with a free and permanent college scholarship program.

+ Small private colleges are dying in a winner-take-all university marketplace.  In football, I would get a piling on penalty . . . but I am going to talk about it anyway.

+ TDR continues to increase – to the benefit of students.  Not so much to colleges in need of more revenue. 

Show notes:

2026 College Majors Completion app for Academic Leaders

2026 College Majors Completion app for students and families.

Earlham ends some majors to cut costs

BGSU to suspend 6 degree programs, 'reconfigure' 20 more in 2027 ( Partial list of programs below.) *

Half off at Hopkins: Carey Business School offers steep discounts to Maryland grads

(Maine) Governor Mills Signs Supplemental Budget at EMCC, Making Free College Scholarship Permanent

Matt Hisrich post on college net price decreases

The small private colleges dying in a winner-take-all university marketplace

Dan Silverburg post on tuition discount rates.

*BGSU says six programs will be suspended entirely without alternative options:

• Bachelor of Arts in Geography
• Bachelor of Musical Arts and one in Musical Composition
• Bachelor of Science in Physics

The following programs will be reconfigured and offered through alternative or related academic pathways, according to the university:

• Bachelor of Arts in Communication – Theatre
• Bachelor of Arts in Economics
• Bachelor of Arts in Film Studies
• Bachelor of Science in Gerontology with a specialization in long term care administration
• Bachelor of Science in Nutrition Sciences
• Bachelor of Science in Public Health
• Bachelor of Science in Statistics

There are four additional programs BGSU is seeking permission from the Ohio Department of Higher Education to consolidate into alternative offerings:

• Bachelor of Arts in American Culture Studies
• Bachelor of Arts in Ethnic Studies
• Bachelor of Arts in Popular Culture
• Bachelor of Arts in Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies