TWICV News and Commentary for December 1, 2025

This is the podcast that talks about the financial health and viability of public and private colleges with data, details and perspectives offered nowhere else.

 + Rider President Says the University Will Survive (That’s a tough sell when I look at the data.)

+ A study of 44 private colleges in the northeast by Michael Horn and Steven Shulman.   More data to support my premise that higher education will continue to move through its consolidation era: closures today.  Mergers tomorrow.

+ Daniel Greenstein:  How Selectivity Shapes Financial Resilience in Private Higher Education

+NBC news jumps on the college bad news bandwagon.

+ and more. . . .

Make sure to forward podcast link to your Higher Education friends.  No sense in just you getting latest news and commentary on the whole industry

Show notes and links

Rider President Says the University Will Survive

The Financial Risk of Declining Enrollment to Midsize Colleges

The price of admission:  How Selectivity Shapes Financial Resilience in Private Higher Education

Poll: In a dramatic shift, Americans no longer see four-year college degrees as worth the cost