A CUNY Graduation Strategy Worth Sharing

Student Housing Matters is always eager to share higher-ed success stories with our readers because they are the essence of what this field of focus represents.  This article (linked below) published in the New York Times yesterday is a great example of a university seeing a challenge many of its students were (and still are)…

Cost Tipping Point?

I found this to be a very interesting article about college costs and the perceptions that they have dramatically increased in recent years. I was especially intrigued by the statement that the actual cost (in inflation adjusted dollars) to parents for private school tuition and fees was only about $3,000 more than in the early…

How Are Students Paying For College Costs?

Interesting article on a recent survey by Citigroup and Seventeen magazine of high school seniors and college students regarding how they are paying (or planning on paying) for education. Here are some of the responses that grabbed my attention: Nearly 4 out of 5 college students are working part-time, but only 18 percent pay their…

The New Normal

Very interesting article this week in the Wall Street Journal on the trend of parents giving their children less cash to pay for college expenses. According to this article, parents contributed $5,727 from income and savings in the 2012-13 academic year, compared to $8,752 in the 2009-10 academic year – a drop of $3,025. Interestingly,…

College Grads Living Back at Home

Before you convert the spare bedroom into an office, you may want to consider this. The Atlantic recently posted an article about college graduates moving back home after school.  There were some pretty fascinating differences within the last ten years.  The graph below is from the article and the link is below.  How do you…