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DATA P O I N T Number of college students who studied abroad during the 2004-2005 191,321 academic year. Year of Study Abroad www.yearofstudyabroad.org . S TAT S WAT C H Survey: Hike in Health Care Costs for Higher Education G O O D BENEFITS ARE PART OF ANY ATTRACTIVE providing fewer benefits to employees since the last survey was EMployee package, but they are getting harder to provide. See completed. Human Resources column, page 27. The College & University This year's respondents indicate that Consumer Driven Health Professional Association for Human Resources has issued its fourth Care plans are gaining in popularity, notes Ray Sizemore, CUPA- annual survey of member organizations and the top-line findings HR's director of research and information systems. Such plans, show that health care benefits are costing more for colleges and which include Health Savings Accounts, emphasize lower monthly universities. A full 81 percent of respondents report that health- employee contributions for health care, but higher deductibles. care and dental costs have gone up. The median increase in costs Currently, 10.4 percent of the public universities surveyed have is 9 percent. Eleven percent of respondents reported that they are CDHC plans in place, which is double the number of private col- leges and universities. This year's survey covers 537 public and private colleges and Monthly Median Health Care Costs universities. The average budget for the institutions surveyed is $239 million. The average number of undergraduate students is Employee Institution Without CDHC Plans 6,674; the average number of graduate students is 1,368. The aver- Employee only coverage $84 $326 age number of full-time faculty members is 293. In all, the median Employee plus family coverage $309 $714 cost per employee for medical and dental coverage is $5,652. The full report also covers retirement benefits, domestic part- With CDHC Plans ner benefits, and other costs. See www.cupahr.org/surveys/ben- Employee only coverage $75 $314 efits2005-06.htm. J.M.A. Employee plus family coverage $284 $673 Yale Shmale Free to Be in NYC? ANY RECRUITMENT CAMPAIGN F E W TOP ADMINISTRATORS ARE LIKELY JEALOUS OF LEE that generates 200,000 web- Bollinger these days. The president of Columbia University has seen two site hits in its first week can major free speech incidents explode at his school this fall. legitimately be dubbed suc- In early October, students physically disrupted a speech by Jim Gilchrest, cessful. Lakehead Univer- founder of the Minuteman Project, which is known for anti-immigration ac- sity in Thunder Bay, Ontario, tivities. The students stormed a stage and overturned a table at the event spon- Canada, got that many hits sored by the College Republicans, chanting Minutemen, Nazis, KKK! Racists, with its Yale Shmale cam- fascists, go away! paign, which features that slogan and a picture of Bollinger hustled to issue a statement noting that the incident was being President George W. Bush, a 1968 Yale alumni. Visi- investigated. This is not complicated, he said. Students and faculty have tors to the site, www.yaleshmale.com, are advised rights to invite speakers to campus. Others have rights to hear them. Those The smart choice is a university that's right for who wish to protest have rights to do so. No one, however, shall have the you. About 90,000 visitors have clicked through right or the power to use the cover of protest to silence speakers. to the university's website, which is pretty damn A couple of weeks earlier, Columbia was mired in another free speech good, says Director of Communications Eleanor S. debacle when it retracted a speaking invitation to Iranian President Mah- Abaya. We've been inundated with e-mails, phone moud Ahmadinejad. Bollinger explained that Columbia had not been able to calls, and letters from around the world, she says. establish a conversation with the Iranian Embassy that would ensure Ahma- People either love the ads or hate them; there is no dinejad's speech would reflect the academic values that are the hallmark of middle ground. We've achieved our awareness goals a university event. in spades. Abaya laughed at the idea Lakehead was The Ahmadinejad invitation had been made by Lisa Anderson, dean of trying to compare itself to Yale; still, they don't the School of International and Public Affairs. Anderson had the right to intend to expand the campaign to include other Ivy invite speakers, Bollinger noted, adding that the event would have been in League schools. A.M. keeping with the open exchange that universities should protect. C.M.F. universitybusiness.com November 2006 | 17 Update.indd 17 10/24/06 9:40:58 AM http://www.yearofstudyabroad.org http://www.cupahr.org/surveys/benefits2005-06.htm http://www.cupahr.org/surveys/benefits2005-06.htm http://www.yaleshmale.com http://www.universitybusiness.com

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of University Business - November 2006

Table of Contents
College Index
Company Index
Advisory Board
Editor's Note
Stats Watch
People Watch
Sense of Place
Viewpoint
Marketing
Human Resources
Money Matters
Community Colleges
Wireless: The "n" is Near
TECH Central
Rising Stars
Coming Back from Katrina
Business Technology
What's New
Calendar of Events
Direct Connect
End Note

University Business - November 2006