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This Week In College Viability (TWICV)

Welcome to the podcast. We call it TWICV. It is our effort to provide a fast-paced, entertaining, and alternative voice to the propaganda and hype flowing out of colleges in America today. This week in College Viability is a proud affilate of The EdUP Experience podcast network.

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This Week In College Viability (TWICV) for January 5,...

This Week In College Viability (TWICV) ·

2026/01/05

Sitting in front of the Blue Yeti microphone and the smooth running Riverside.fm podcast software.As ‘Your College Financial Quality Control Advocate’ This is the podcast that talks about the financial health and viability of public and private colleges with data, details and perspectives offered nowhere else. I talk about delusional colleges, regurgitation reporting, And College Viability is Higher Education’s NORAD. Our data radar tells you which incoming colleges are risky and which

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This Week In College Viability (TWICV) for Dec 15, 2025

This Week In College Viability (TWICV) ·

2025/12/15

The final 2025 podcast for This Week in College Viability.This is the podcast that talks about the financial health and viability of public and private colleges with data, details and perspectives offered nowhere else.This week's stories include: + Lots of layoff and cutback stories today+ A college without a library. (Bloomberg News story I was quoted in) That is the position that Albright College since 2019+ Merry Christmas from your friendly accreditor + College Bankruptcies Are

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This Week In College Viability (TWICV) Special Guest:...

This Week In College Viability (TWICV) ·

2025/12/12

Greg Pillar answers these questions on this special podcast episode of 'This Week in College Viability'."Enrollment teams are obviously focused on hitting the numbers, often relying on GPA and test scores. In your experience, why are those metrics failing to predict a student’s actual readiness for the modern college environment?""If Enrollment focuses on 'getting them in' and Academics focuses on 'teaching them,' who is responsible for the transition? Where are students falling through the

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30:22

This Week In College Viability (TWICV) for December...

This Week In College Viability (TWICV) ·

2025/12/08

It is, of course, the holiday season. Sitting here in front of the Blue Yeti microphone, I have to wonder how many college leadership scrooges are out there. The Yeti microphone and I look at college finances constantly. It is almost certain, that even during this holiday season, there are colleges on the brink of announcing they cannot continue.And on that happy note, this is the podcast that talks about the financial health and viability of public and private colleges with data,

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23:40

This Week In College Viability (TWICV) for December 1...

This Week In College Viability (TWICV) ·

2025/12/01

TWICV News and Commentary for December 1, 2025This is the podcast that talks about the financial health and viability of public and private colleges with data, details and perspectives offered nowhere else. + Rider President Says the University Will Survive (That’s a tough sell when I look at the data.)+ A study of 44 private colleges in the northeast by Michael Horn and Steven Shulman. More data to support my premise that higher education will continue to move through its consolidation

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25:22

This Week In College Viability (TWICV) for Nov 24, 2025

This Week In College Viability (TWICV) ·

2025/11/24

This Thanksgiving week podcast includes stories on:+ We are now ‘sunsetting’ programs and majors.+ Columbia considers expanding undergraduate enrollment by up to 20 percent (I wonder why?_+ Rider U’s financial and accreditation troubles continue to make news.+ In a dog bites man story: University Of Nebraska Faculty Senate Votes No-Confidence Against its Chancellor+ When grades stop meaning anything (UC San Diego story from last week) Kelsey Piper on her Substack siteShow notes:My

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This Week In College Viability (TWICV) for Nov 17, 2025

This Week In College Viability (TWICV) ·

2025/11/17

TWICV News and Commentary for November 17, 2025This is the podcast that talks about the financial health and viability of public and private colleges with data, details and perspectives offered nowhere else.Where are we headed this week before Thanksgiving 2025?+ It wouldn’t be a show without cutbacks and layoffs. We had a closure announcement last week, but the college was so small, it did warrant big headlines.+ Wittenberg U in Ohio: On probation. I will have the data for you.+ Utica

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This Week In College Viability (TWICV) for Nov 10 2025

This Week In College Viability (TWICV) ·

2025/11/10

The headlines for November 10, 2025:+ A college closure in Illinois. How many more colleges are having that discussion?+ IHE: 14 colleges with cutbacks and layoffs in October.+ In Nebraska, faculty oppose academic program cuts+ Accreditors move to control innovationShow notes and links.Suburban Trinity Chistian College to close at end of academic year due to financial challengesOctober Brought Deep Cuts at Multiple CampusesHow Title IV Compliance Should Serve as Higher Education's New

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23:39

This Week In College Viability (TWICV) for November...

This Week In College Viability (TWICV) ·

2025/11/03

TWICV News and Commentary for November 3, 2025This is the podcast that talks about the financial health and viability of public and private colleges with data, details and perspectives offered nowhere else.Today’s show: + Layoffs and cutbacks+ How Closing a University Changes You+ The Fragility of Small Scale 2025 Daniel Greenstein+ Higher Ed Is Sleepwalking Toward Obsolescence — And AI Won’t Be the Cause, Just the Accelerant+ Colleges Face a Financial Reckoning. The University of

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26:07

This Week In College Viability (TWICV) for Oct 27 2025

This Week In College Viability (TWICV) ·

2025/10/27

TWICV News and Commentary for Oct 27 2025This is the podcast that talks about the financial health and viability of public and private colleges with data, details and perspectives offered nowhere else.Call it your college education about colleges.This week:+ Central Washington University says ‘ flat is good.” Get out your anti-spin pills for this one.+ Wilberforce University Launches Feasibility Study to Revive Historic Football Program + Why college direct admissions is growing

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21:07

This Week In College Viability (TWICV) for Oct, 20 2025

This Week In College Viability (TWICV) ·

2025/10/21

Podcasting sites were also impacted by the October 20th AWS issues. So, a day late, probably not a dollar short.Here are the show notes and links for stories in the Oct. 20th podcastHigher ed layoff tracker: Mass. colleges cut more than 400 jobs over six monthsUNC laying off approximately 50 staff to address budget deficit Thomas Jefferson University to lay off about 650 employeesAs its undergrad enrollment slid, UL’s hiring soaredWant to Know What You’ll Pay for College? There’s a Fast

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This Week In College Viability (TWICV) for Oct 13 2025

This Week In College Viability (TWICV) ·

2025/10/13

Each week I wade through dozens and dozens of higher ed stories from either referrals from others or my own Google Alert searches. The stories and commentary that make it onto the podcast are my best judgement of what my growing audience wants to hear.For example, there was an Ohio private college president that posted this week that “ Just as culture eats strategy for breakfast, backbone beats brand”. Now, I don’t know what that means. He was trying to create a perception that his

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This Week In College Viability (TWICV) for Oct 6, 2025

This Week In College Viability (TWICV) ·

2025/10/06

This is the podcast that talks about the financial health and viability of public and private colleges with data, details and perspectives offered nowhere else. Forward the podcast link to your higher education friends. No sense in just you getting latest news and commentary on the whole industry.This week’s show includes:+ Many layoff and cutback stories+ More tuition resets that focus on access but not success+ More Colleges Promise Graduates Employment, Grad School Placement. +

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This Week In College Viability (TWICV) Special...

This Week In College Viability (TWICV) ·

2025/10/06

In my many years on this earth, I have coached youth sports, served as a basketball referee and baseball umpire for many of those years.As I watch the NIL and transfer portal news, I have been pondering the medium and longer-term fate of the youth sports industry. Steve Dittmore caught my attention recently with his 'Glory Days' Substack site. I reached out to him and what resulted is a novel look at college sports and some informed speculation on its impact on the youth sports

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This Week In College Viability (TWICV) for Sep 29 2025

This Week In College Viability (TWICV) ·

2025/09/29

Access does not equal success: You have heard me say many times that too many colleges focus on enrollment and not nearly enough on graduation rates. This phrase captures the essence of that. Getting into college does not mean a student will be successful and graduate – yet enrollment is the focus we read and hear about for almost all colleges.This week:+ A college leader at Bethel U (MN) reached out with clarifying information from a recent story I had on his college. I was both

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This Week In College Viability (TWICV) for Sep 22, 2025

This Week In College Viability (TWICV) ·

2025/09/22

This week’s theme: “challenging the enrollment spin”. I have a set of colleges on today’s show that would like us to believe that they are winning the higher education enrollment game. Yet, in every case their enrollment data is selective and short-term. They ignore mostly pathetic graduation rates and don’t even begin to share their troublesome financial picture. All the while trying to paint a rosy picture that their college is not like all of the other colleges in dire financial

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This Week In College Viability (TWICV) for Sep 15, 2025

This Week In College Viability (TWICV) ·

2025/09/15

'Wicked' college experience at Ann Arbor MI football game shows what the value of college could be. One of the ways I unwind during the last part of each day is to watch YouTube videos. I like to watch talented entertainers and comedy clips from TV shows. One of them that came across my feed over the weekend was the UMich Band and Students recently performing a medley of songs from the musical Wicked. It was just stunningly good.I bring this up as an opportunity to again say that college

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26:55

This Week In College Viability (TWICV) Special -...

This Week In College Viability (TWICV) ·

2025/09/12

The 2nd edition of Requiem for a College 2nd edition by Jonathan Nichols is a deeply personal and cautionary tale that explores the growing trend of college closures in the United States. It's a gripping account that reads like a mystery, but it's based on a true story. The book centers on the closure of Saint Joseph's College in Indiana, a school with a 128-year history that came to a heartbreaking end in 2017. Nichols, a former English professor and alumnus of the college, uses hundreds

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This Week In College Viability (TWICV) for September...

This Week In College Viability (TWICV) ·

2025/09/08

A long start to this week's podcast. I take a detailed look at how colleges spin their enrollment and focus on the financial health data of one college in PA as an example.Other stories include:+ Higher ed spending up as enrollment plummets at Illinois universities+ Impact of Federal Policy Shifts: Higher Education Enrollment Cliff or Moderate Decline?+ SB 1 is forcing Ohio universities to cut dozens of degree programs+ Hundreds Of U.S. Colleges Poised To Close In Next Decade, Expert Says+

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This Week In College Viability: A Special...

This Week In College Viability (TWICV) ·

2025/09/03

I talk about college finances and colleges spinning their numbers regularly. This is the first time I have had a CFO (interim) come onto the podcast to share the stark reality of the financial challenges at a specfic college - Albright College (PA).Larry Bomback has been the interim CFO since late 2024. Albright College has been in the news about its financial plight for many months.In this special podcast episode, Larry addresses the challenges and adds details of the recovery plan put

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