The Fine Arts Dean’s Anxiety Closet

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhlyEbMfWxw

“. . . affordability and value are included in determining which colleges receive certain

types of federal aid . . .”

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. . . That focus will begin, many say, with a push to resuscitate the gainful-employment regulation, a Department of Education proposal strongly opposed by for-profit colleges. And according to one community-college leader, in its new incarnation, the regulation might come back to life “in a broader form,” with portions of it applying more widely at nonprofit colleges as well. . .

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324880504578298162378392502.html

http://www.whitehouse.gov/issues/education/higher-education/college-score-card

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Bachelor’s Degree Recipients by CollegeNumber of May 2012 Degree Recipients that Borrowed in Parentheses

Geosciences (12)

Business (200)

Communications (317)

Social Work (33)

All (2,393)

Liberal Arts (796)

Engineering (290)

Natural Sciences (453)

Nursing (40)

Architecture (23)

Education (142)

Fine Arts (85)

$21,089

$23,358

$23,557

$24,735

$25,192

$25,326

$25,473

$25,494

$25,702

$25,808

$26,538

$30,026

What remedies?• Don’t denounce concerns about

educational ROI• Control price and net cost to students• Improve & track professional outcomes of

graduates—SNAAP• Improve awareness of

tangible/measurable contributions of the arts—SNAAP