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» Money In vs. Money Out from TheBizofKnowledge
According to this chart by Samuel Wood, 70% of all funds that a public non-profit college gets are from government grants, contracts and appropriations. Let me see, the last chance I checked, the government got their money from, uh...taxes = you... [Read More]

» Recruit Students? or Should We Let Them Wander In. from TheBizofKnowledge
I have another observation about Samuel Wood's Samuel Wood's Chart . According to the chart, the fopros spend about 23% of their resources recruiting and advertising for new students. The last time I checked, that meant encouraging kids, adults and... [Read More]

» Non-profits Learn From the FOPROS from TheBizofKnowledge
Samuel Wood, creator of this model of money in/money out for higher ed institutions says that non-profit colleges are beginning to spend more money on marketing. Wow!...where did the non-profits get that idea, I wonder. Still..he says that the decision... [Read More]

» Final Lessons From Samuel Woods from TheBizofKnowledge
Let me pound on this chart from Samuel Woods one more time. There is one glaring difference between how the money is spent in the non-profits and how it is spent in the fopros. The non-profits spend about 43% of their... [Read More]

» More Lessons From Samuel Wood of Stanford from TheBizofKnowledge
I have a couple of more points I want to make after looking at Samuel Wood's chart on Fopros and Non-profits. According to his graph, the non-profits pay about 38% of their budget for instruction. The fopros pay out about... [Read More]