 Posted Monday, November 20, 2006 2:30 PM
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I recently found a database that allows you to view information about nonprofit organizations, Guidestar. I found all of Principia's tax returns on there. Lots of interesting information including tuition revenue (which has been steadily increasing every year) and the salaries of all their top people.
Also, I heard via email that Dr. Moffett is leaving after this year.
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Posted Sunday, July 29, 2007 9:27 PM
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| can you please send me the facts, you have to have a premium acount to view them. and i am very interested in knowing the facts. thank you, my e-mail is taley54@yahoo.com
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Posted Friday, September 07, 2007 10:40 PM
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Here is a free site that gives the financial information from the 990s
http://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm/bay/search.summary/orgid/4361/print/1.htm
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Posted Monday, October 22, 2007 10:00 AM
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If you want some real information about Principia's financial picture - including enrollment, giving, numbers of faculty increases and decreases - use this website to access "The Dashboard" - which is a system championed by CEO Stuart Jenkins to make Principia's information more transparent. It has been up and running for almost a year. However most people like to speculate and create their own "truth" rather than going to the facts.
http://www.prin.edu/dashboard/
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Posted Monday, November 05, 2007 8:16 AM
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The Dashboard leaves out some information that is easily obtainable. For example, what is the faculty turnover at Principia College for the year 2006-2007? Last year it was 11% for college teaching faculty and 21-27% in athletic faculty. This is high, since the Principia Pilot student paper noted that a Wisconsin study found that the average turnover is 4.5% per year for college faculty. The turnover in faculty at Principia in 2006-2007 is likely much larger, since there has been so much friction there with the CEO Jenkins, who has recently resigned.
Is the Dashboard going to honestly present all the data, good and bad?
Can anyone doubt that Jenkins and almost the entire college faculty were seriously at odds, and that this would affect any academic institution in a very negative way? I am glad that he resigned regardless of who is "right."
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Posted Wednesday, November 07, 2007 11:47 AM
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| Bear in mind, Prin is a very small school. So just a few personnel changes can constitute a larger percentage, statistically. So that doesn't strike me as significant. But since there are such few ones, they can be examined by observers* in greater detail. I haven't checked out the Dashboard. I know that the one on my car has lots of idiot lights. *And also by gossips!
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Posted Tuesday, April 15, 2008 6:33 PM
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| Principia will have somewhat less of a financial problem when they receive the 7-figure bequest that my step-dad left them in his will. My step-dad passed-on last summer. It is curious that he didn't leave nearly as much to his own church. My step-dad attended Principia back in the "black & white" days. (He was 83 when he passed-on). Mark
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Posted Wednesday, May 07, 2008 1:04 PM
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I found enrollment figures from Principia College for fall 2007:
Freshmen:157
Sophomores: 115
Juniors: 109
Seniors: 102
Total: 487
At its peak, Prin had about 900 students in the early 1970s. When I graduated in 1988, Prin still had 700-plus students, and we had a graduating class of 138.
http://www.prin.edu/dashboard/Documents/enrollment/F07%20Summary%20Enroll%20FINAL%202007-09-21.pdf
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