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Riley K. Acton – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2022
In the competitive U.S. higher education market, institutions differentiate themselves to attract both students and tuition dollars. One understudied example of this differentiation is the increasing trend of "colleges" becoming "universities" by changing their names. Leveraging variation in the timing of such conversions in an…
Descriptors: Institutional Characteristics, Higher Education, Commercialization, Colleges
Brian Backstrom; Patrick Schumacher – Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government, 2024
The State University of New York (SUNY) is the largest comprehensive system of higher education in the United States, currently providing affordable, quality higher education to about 1.4 million students across its system of 64 college and university campuses and its entire portfolio of credit- and noncredit-bearing courses and programs,…
Descriptors: Public Education, State Colleges, Economic Impact, Industry