September 7, 2020
Richard Fisher’s follow-up Scholarly Kitchen post is as generously minded as the first. But the hippo in the room—monograph funding—is mostly (if not completely) ignored. Fisher imagines a future with more reader-level sales, at lower prices, but suggests (in...
September 4, 2020
Speaking of shady public university deals with for-profits: The University of Arizona has published the asset purchase and sale agreement it struck with Ashford University to create a new online nonprofit institution called the University of Arizona Global Campus....
September 4, 2020
The Century Foundation’s Robert Shireman: In May 2019, Purdue University’s CFO filed a nonprofit tax return (Form 990) with the IRS, followed in August with an application for tax-exempt status (Form 1023).3 Four months later, in December, the IRS granted the...
September 1, 2020
From an Inside Higher Ed commentary on contingency planning for college closures: Even before the pandemic took hold, many colleges were operating on razor-thin margins, with the enrollment trends and demographics of many colleges working against them. Thousands of...
September 1, 2020
Yale Unviersity Press’s Richard Fisher, writing on the Scholarly Kitchen in the first of a two-day post: prior to 2020, no major publisher of academic monographs in the arts and social sciences was reporting print sales as less than 60% of the monographic whole,...
