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Robert Kelchen

Knoxville
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Professor & head, Ed Leadership & Policy Studies, @UTKnoxville. This account is inactive...find me elsewhere!
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Opinion | When Colleges Make Cuts, Here’s What’s Most at Risk

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By Robert Kelchen
| The Chronicle of Higher Education Verified
It is no secret that most of American higher education is facing financial headwinds. Nearly one in five public institutions and one in three private institutions ran budget deficits in fiscal year 2024, and that was before tightened state funding, an uptick in inflation, and President Trump’s numerous punitive steps against the sector. These challenges continue today.
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Hate Your Job? You’re Probably Stuck With It.

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By Robert Kelchen
| The Chronicle of Higher Education Verified
It is remarkable how much the higher-education-employment landscape has changed during the last six years. When the pandemic first hit in March 2020, colleges, like many other industries, responded by freezing hiring, suspending pay raises, and laying off employees. The size of the higher-education work force shrank by 10 percent during 2020, and I will never forgot having tearful Zoom meetings to console staff members who were facing layoffs to close a budget deficit at my previous institution.
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Do Tuition Controls Freeze Student Debt?

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By Robert Kelchen
| SAGE Publishing
Abstract As concerns have grown over student debt burdens, policymakers in a majority of states have placed limits on how much public universities can increase tuition in an effort to reduce student debt. In this paper, I provide the first empirical examination of whether tuition controls imposed by states are effective in reducing federal undergraduate student debt burdens and whether that effect varies by student or institutional characteristics.
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