Higher education is in a state of crisis!
College budgets are becoming a challenge to balance. Expenses are continually increasing in an environment of declining enrollments, endowments, and government support. The stop-gap solution for decades was to increase tuition—this is no longer viable.
Students, parents, donors, and government agencies are scrutinizing the cost and return on investment of a college education. Colleges are under pressure for their underperformance of only graduating 40% of students on time while the national student debt is skyrocketing.
Addressing the issue of approximately 2 million students that start college annually and drop out provides colleges with an opportunity to turn the crisis around. Finish in Four introduces a model that provides an approach for developing strategic solutions in ten key areas to improve on-time graduation rates and reduce student debt. This will result in improved fiscal stability for America’s struggling colleges.
A must read for all college stakeholders and students selecting a college.
Jeff Marsee, Ph.D., is a higher education consultant, trainer, presenter, former college president and Fulbright Scholar. His extensive career has included working with and at non-profit and for-profit (two and four-year) colleges; focusing on changing institutional models to improving student retention and graduation rates. The cumulation of his experiences, observations and research has been the development of a strategic planning (C-PAM) model that helps colleges assess and improve their performance in ten critical student success areas.