Dr. Stephen Coffin Published Higher Education’s Looming Collapse: Using New Ways of Doing Business and Social Justice to Avoid Bankruptcy

Dr. Stephen Coffin, Adjunct in the Educational Leadership Department, recently published the book Higher Education’s Looming Collapse: Using New Ways of Doing Business and Social Justice to Avoid Bankruptcy.

Higher education must implement new ways of achieving social justice and performing the business of education to survive the impending shakeout stemming from increasing competition for enrollment, operating costs, and price sensitivity plus decreasing state aid, net tuition, endowment income, and college-bound high school graduates. Universities that survive the shakeout will achieve financial sustainability, educational excellence, and social justice while providing equal educational opportunity and resource equity by implementing the book’s best practices, strategies, and holistic budgeting model.

Dr. Coffin’s research focuses on education finance and economics; charter schools, community economic development; educational business administration; equal educational opportunity, and resource equity. He serves on four editorial review boards, NJASBO’s Legislative and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committees; seven AERA SIGs; publishes books, chapters, reports, and journal articles; is a former school business administrator, and has performed management consulting for KPMG and IBM.