Peter Pitts (aka Small College Guy) is a retired admission officer who loves small colleges. This is excerpted from a Facebook post with permission. Your son or daughter is totally undecided about a ...

These schools, with fewer than 4,000 students each, offer top academics, plus greater access to faculty and more protection from federal funding cuts, than at big research universities. The ...

T his is crunch time for the budgets of small private colleges, as leadership begins to get a sense of what fall enrollment will look like following this spring’s FAFSA fiasco. As of mid-May, only ...

The notice of a college closing is almost a weekly occurrence now. We have known for more than a decade that the combination of a declining number of high school graduates and tuition and fees that ...

Students at Ursuline College navigate an uncertain future. A perfect storm of rising costs and enrollment challenges has some small private colleges in Ohio, and across the country, facing an ...

Dozens of regional public and private colleges have eliminated jobs and programs this summer to close budget gaps as enrollment and tuition revenues shrink heading into the fall semester. The cuts ...

Tucked into the sprawling Republican reconciliation bill that has mostly garnered attention for its Medicaid cuts is a major tax break for the nation’s wealthiest liberal-arts colleges. Fourteen such ...