{"id":40802290520,"date":"2025-09-26T10:29:32","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T14:29:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/?p=40802290520"},"modified":"2025-11-25T08:27:00","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T13:27:00","slug":"prof-pang-and-ryan-sonn-co-publish-in-international-journal-of-business-management","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/prof-pang-and-ryan-sonn-co-publish-in-international-journal-of-business-management\/","title":{"rendered":"Prof. Pang and Ryan Sonn Co-Publish in International Journal of Business Management"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Wai Kong (Johnny) Pang, Ph.D., associate professor in the Department of Mathematics, and Ryan Sonn ’25M, data science graduate student, recently co-published an article in the International Journal of Business and Management<\/a> (Vol. 20, No. 8, 2025). Their study, \u201cThe Intricacies of College and University Closures: A Generalized Linear Model Perspective<\/a>,\u201d uses statistical analysis to examine the patterns behind college and university closures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Pang and Sonn\u2019s research leverages publicly accessible variables through a Generalized Linear Model (GLM) analysis to identify key determinants of closures, which include institutional endowment, tuition, and percentage of in-state students. The authors\u2019 goal of equipping individuals with a method of understanding an institution\u2019s financial health is accomplished through a predictive Z-score model and ranges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Through their calculations, Pang and Sonn conclude that public institutions with higher endowment and tuition values will experience a positive effect on their final predictor score. Conversely, a higher percentage of in-state students will have an adverse effect, as out-of-state tuition is significantly higher than in-state tuition, thereby negatively impacting an institution’s financial health indicator.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

International Journal of Business and Management (IJBM) is an international, double-blind peer-reviewed, open-access journal dedicated to publishing high-quality research in the field of business and management. IJBM is committed to disseminating impactful and innovative research to a global audience of scholars, practitioners, and policymakers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read Pang and Sonn’s full study.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wai Kong (Johnny) Pang, Ph.D., associate professor in the Department of Mathematics, and Ryan Sonn ’25M, data science graduate student, recently co-published an article in the International Journal of Business and Management (Vol. 20, No. 8, 2025). Their study, \u201cThe Intricacies of College and University Closures: A Generalized Linear Model Perspective,\u201d uses statistical analysis to examine […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":40802290630,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444,191,423,170],"tags":[6181],"person":[6184,6182],"audience":[11,8,50,1961,131],"school":[77,125,68],"program":[],"class_list":["post-40802290520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-monmouth-now","category-personalized-education","category-faculty-perspectives","category-research","tag-international-journal-of-business-management","person-ryan-sonn","person-wai-kong-pang","audience-current-student","audience-faculty","audience-graduate-student","audience-parent","audience-prospective-graduate-student","school-computer-science-software-engineering","school-mathematics","school-school-of-science"],"squareimage":{"id":40802290632,"rendered":"\"\"","original":{"url":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2025\/09\/Pang-Sonn-square.jpg","width":1200,"height":1200}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40802290520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40802290520"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40802290520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40802291513,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40802290520\/revisions\/40802291513"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40802290630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40802290520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40802290520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40802290520"},{"taxonomy":"person","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person?post=40802290520"},{"taxonomy":"audience","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/audience?post=40802290520"},{"taxonomy":"school","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/school?post=40802290520"},{"taxonomy":"program","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/program?post=40802290520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}