Introduction to "How the Financial Crisis and Great Recession Affected Higher Education"

We are grateful to the Spencer Foundation for their financial support of this conference (grant number 201100034). Jeffrey Brown has served since 2009 as a Trustee for TIAA. In addition to serving as financial services provider for participants at many universities and colleges, TIAA also has two subsidiaries that provide endowment management and planned giving services.

Caroline Hoxby acknowledges support for her research on higher education from The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Spencer Foundation for Research Related to Education, The Smith-Richardson Foundation, The Mellon Foundation, and the United States Department of Education Institute for Education Sciences.