{"id":2455,"date":"2026-09-26T02:41:25","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T02:41:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/knowacademia.com\/?p=2455"},"modified":"2026-09-26T02:41:27","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T02:41:27","slug":"watch-out-for-these-hazardous-decisions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/knowacademia.com\/?p=2455","title":{"rendered":"Watch Out for These Hazardous Decisions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n

The following ten problems might be viewed as unfortunate outcomes of decisions. However, these problems arose because choices were made that led to these problems. The purpose of the list is to assist presidents and board members in recognizing high risk decisions that can have very large adverse effects on the financial stability of a college.<\/p>\n

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  1. Loans on top of loans as a college nears a state of financial distress.<\/li>\n
  2. Increasing expenses on the assumption that spending more will bring in more students.<\/li>\n
  3. Marketing the college in the same old way and getting the same old results; not enough students.<\/li>\n
  4. Failing to conduct due diligence on all contracts.<\/li>\n
  5. Running down cash balances without considering how long cash will last.<\/li>\n
  6. Ignoring serial deficits that weaken the college\u2019s capacity to pay for its obligations.<\/li>\n
  7. Ignoring financial factors that will produce scores in the Department of Education Financial Responsibility Test requiring a line-of-credit to continue to receive Title Iv funds.<\/li>\n
  8. Raising discount rates reduces cash generated by tuition revenue that is no longer sufficient to maintain cash reserves.<\/li>\n
  9. A fast-growing list of unpaid bills can endanger the continued operation of a college.<\/li>\n
  10. Delays in payment of federal withholding taxes.<\/li>\n<\/ol>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    The following ten problems might be viewed as unfortunate outcomes of decisions. However, these problems arose because choices were made that led to these problems. The purpose of the list is to assist presidents and board members in recognizing high risk decisions that can have very large adverse effects on the financial stability of a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[30,1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[24],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/knowacademia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2455"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/knowacademia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/knowacademia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knowacademia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knowacademia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2455"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/knowacademia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2457,"href":"https:\/\/knowacademia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2455\/revisions\/2457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/knowacademia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knowacademia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knowacademia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2455"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knowacademia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=2455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}