By Herman Berliner. Very often in higher education, when we look at enrollment numbers, the numbers are aggregated. We look at the headcount of students or the number of full-time students or the number of new students or transfer students, etc. We also look more and more at the discount rate, once again by different categories of students. We know, for example, that typically first time full-time students have a higher discount rate than transfer students or part-time students or continuing students. Read more...

By Herman Berliner. The article on parking in the July 23rd issue of IHE immediately caught my attention. I oversee one well located parking lot for administrators on campus and there is always significant interest in getting the OK to park in that lot.  The article in IHE and the preceding presentation at the National Association of College and University Business Officers talked about the merits of “demand-based parking” where “the best spots near the center of the campus and high-traffic buildings would cost the most and spots in the hinterlands would cost less.” Read more...