A key rating agency has warned Simmons University about its financial outlook as the Fenway school embarks on ambitious construction projects and prepares to change leaders. Moody’s Investors ...

According to a 2018 finance survey, Hardin-Simmons University’s recent construction costs ran $11,847,370. Campus capital projects can be a risk in the best of times; when enrollments and ...

Simmons University in Boston was no exception. "It was July 1, 2008. We didn’t have enough money and cash was practically at zero," Helen Drinan recalls of her first day as president.

In February, credit rating agency Moody's revised its financial outlook for Simmons' from stable to negative. The university also has a substantial debt load — over $140 million. Interview ...

Forbes has Hardin-Simmons University in its sights again.Sort of. Unlike in May 2020, when the magazine published a piece examining the university's financial health, decision to cut numerous ...

Simmons gave 65.5 percent of its online revenue to 2U in the 2019-20 year — a gradual decline from a high of 69.7 percent at the start of the partnership, according to the university’s ...

Maintaining the University's financial strength and ensuring that education is accessible for qualified students of all economic backgrounds are main concerns facing the president of any university, ...

Simmons University, Boston’s only women’s college, is considering cutting five to seven liberal arts departments. ... and literature majors were at risk amid the college’s financial struggles.

Hardin-Simmons University said on Friday it was cutting 22 academic programs -- eliminating 17 faculty and 14 staff positions -- building on a previous round of program closures and layoffs, the ...

Yet as the price of college continues to rise alongside a growing student debt crisis, Wooten acknowledged that the financial structure of higher education makes attending university more challenging.