The TIAA Institute serves as a trusted source of knowledge, helping higher education leaders navigate transformational changes. The Institute provides research and assembles leading thinkers with diverse views on critical topics to help leaders formulate well-reasoned strategic responses to critical issues in academic workforce trends, leadership and financial sustainability.
The TIAA Institute’s Higher Education Leadership Conference (HELC) offered unrivaled opportunities for higher education business leaders to explore the drivers of change and innovation at U.S. colleges and universities.
As market forces continue to reshape the higher education landscape, understanding the U.S. college presidency – and its inherent challenges and opportunities – is more important than ever.
The story of a generation drowning in debt is misleading for a number of reasons. This report looks at the landscape of student debt in the U.S. as well as trends and innovative approaches in private funding of higher education.
Over the past decade, foundations and other entities awarding higher education grants have shifted their focus toward programs that encourage student retention and graduation, particularly for low-income and first-generation college students.
Can a university’s characteristics be a better indicator of an endowment’s effectiveness than endowment size?
Performance funding applies financial incentives to higher education, tying a portion of public institutions’ state appropriations to retention rate, degree completion and other student outcomes.
U.S. colleges and universities have indeed increased faculty diversity over the past 20 years, but most gains have been off the tenure track.