The Financially Sustainable University. Bain & Company. Jeff Denneen and Tom Dretler. July 2012.
A focused strategy can help colleges and universities reinvent their industry and stop spending beyond their means, say the authors. “Few industries in the United States have achieved unquestioned global leadership as consistently and effectively as our higher education system. U.S. colleges and universities are the cornerstone of our economic prosperity and the key to realizing the American dream. Thirty years of growth have confirmed the sector’s leadership and vibrancy, the result of demographic and economic factors combining to lift higher education even higher. Despite this success, talk of a higher education “bubble” has reached a fever pitch in the last year” [Note: contains copyrighted material].
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