EDITOR’S NOTE Vol. 4 No. 6–November/December 2012


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Managing high finance has become nearly as important as teaching and research in higher education. Te numbers col- lege leaders wrestle with have grown enormously. In Rachel Wiley’s Concessioning feature, the Ka-ching for Ohio State is a half-billion dollar deal to manage parking and transporta- tion. Tat’s right, a half-billion.


Student debt has crossed the trillion-dollar threshold. Assur- ing that students manage their debts in a poor economy with lousy job prospects is no mean feat. Yet higher ed and the partners that serve it keep coming up with better and better ways to assist students and keep the cohort default rate at bay. Carol Buchli and Anne Fischer of USA Funds suggest that success requires engagement of the entire institution and a life-of-the student approach. Net Price Calculators, includ- ing those we have reported on before and College Abacus written about in this issue, continue to pinpoint the real cost of the education and create more informed consumers that are destined to be better financial risks.


Technology keeps proving its value. Sophisticated proofread- ing software such as Grammarly is lifting grades for students with poor writing skills and freeing up instructors to focus on communication concepts rather than typos and syntax. Alan Brawn warns access to massive amounts of Internet content is a treasure, but can expose unwitting students to liability for plagiarism and copyright infringement.


Technology and science are hardly strange bedfellows. Te Army Corps of Engineers is opening a new science center at the United States Military Academy that will assuredly launch a new era in space exploration. A consortium of pragmatists at Arizona-based universities and other tech organizations have created the unique Arizona Furnace to dramatically accelerate technology transfer. So whether an incubator is trying to get pure science out of the ether and down to earth or dreamers are trying to get earthly ideas into outer space, higher education is the guiding force.


Tere are risks, but being in the education business is great.


TOM ROBINSON EDITOR IN CHIEF


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