Higher Education
6/26/18
Higher Education Blog Series Recap
As the academic year ends for many colleges and universities, we are wrapping up our Higher Education quarterly blog series here at Corona Insights. Here is a recap of what we have explored over the last few months: The State of Higher Education: A Corona Insights Blog Series Cousins with a Lot in Common: Culturals […]
By Andrew StreightRead More
6/4/18
The Complexities of Higher Education for Low-Income Students
In our recent blog series on Higher Education we’ve been discussing issues like the cost of attending college, the economic value of a college degree, and the impact of student loan debt. Today, let’s drill down and examine these issues for low-income students, specifically. Our review of the data on these issues suggests that both […]
By Beth MulliganRead More
5/21/18
Investigating Student Loan Debt
As a firm with collective decades spent earning advanced degrees on top of our professional work with higher education organizations, we are not new to the issue of growing student loan debt. We’ve all heard the complaints about rising student loan debt in America. Many of them stem from uncertainties about the economic benefits for […]
By Andrew StreightRead More
5/2/18
The Economics of Higher Education: An Interview with Jill Tiefenthaler, President of Colorado College
As Corona Insights explores the state of higher education, we turned to one of the experts in Jill Tiefenthaler, the 13th president of Colorado College. President Tiefenthaler is a leading scholar in field of the economics of higher education and has a thorough understanding of the key issues facing colleges and universities today. See our […]
By Andrew StreightRead More
4/25/18
Graduate Students and their Changing Expectations
At the risk of coming off as someone with early-onset curmudgeon-ness, back in my day graduate students went to graduate school only focused on their academic education—and liked it! (We also walked uphill in the snow both ways, or something.) The program I joined (originally with the intent of pursuing a PhD) was very academic-focused—a […]
By Greg HornbackRead More
4/19/18
Cousins with a Lot in Common: Culturals and Colleges—Part 2
In this blog post, we’re exploring how some of the trends in arts & culture also apply to higher education. Previously, we focused on how arts & culture and higher education are both facing a shifting paradigm that is forcing them to rethink what it means to be a cultural or a college or university. […]
By Kate DarwentRead More
4/11/18
Cousins with a Lot in Common: Culturals and Colleges—Part 1
One of the benefits of our work at Corona Insights is the sheer variety, both in our clients and their respective industries. This breadth allows us to cross-pollinate ideas across seemingly disparate fields and share industry-spanning trends with our clients. Our work in arts & culture and higher education is long-standing. That long arc of […]
By Karla RainesRead More
4/5/18
The State of Higher Education: A Corona Insights Blog Series
In 2011, Pew Research Center published a comprehensive report entitled “Is College Worth It?” that shed light on the primary issues within higher education, including cost and value; monetary payoff; views on the mission of colleges; student loans; and more. Despite the daunting title of the report, the survey results suggested that, overall, Americans in […]
By Andrew StreightRead More
11/30/16
Writing an RFP
So you’ve finally reached a point where you feel like you need more information to move forward as an organization, and, even more importantly, you’ve been able to secure some amount of funding to do so. Suddenly you find yourself elbow deep in old request-for-proposals (RFPs), both from your organization and others, trying to craft […]
By Kate DarwentRead More
2/13/15
Is your Neighbor an Engineer?
While Kevin has an engineering degree, I do not—my degree is in social sciences. After reading Kevin’s blogs about income patterns of folks with engineering degrees, I was inspired to take a fresh look at degrees from a spatial perspective. I wondered where engineers are most likely to live, where social scientists are likely to […]
By Matt BruceRead More