Tuition Rising

Author : Ronald G. Ehrenberg
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2009-07-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780674034433

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Tuition Rising by Ronald G. Ehrenberg Pdf

America’s colleges and universities are the best in the world. They are also the most expensive. Tuition has risen faster than the rate of inflation for the past thirty years. There is no indication that this trend will abate. Ronald G. Ehrenberg explores the causes of this tuition inflation, drawing on his many years as a teacher and researcher of the economics of higher education and as a senior administrator at Cornell University. Using incidents and examples from his own experience, he discusses a wide range of topics including endowment policies, admissions and financial aid policies, the funding of research, tenure and the end of mandatory retirement, information technology, libraries and distance learning, student housing, and intercollegiate athletics. He shows that colleges and universities, having multiple, relatively independent constituencies, suffer from ineffective central control of their costs. And in a fascinating analysis of their response to the ratings published by magazines such as U.S. News & World Report, he shows how they engage in a dysfunctional competition for students. In the short run, colleges and universities have little need to worry about rising tuitions, since the number of qualified students applying for entrance is rising even faster. But in the long run, it is not at all clear that the increases can be sustained. Ehrenberg concludes by proposing a set of policies to slow the institutions’ rising tuitions without damaging their quality.

Author : Emily Rose Oachs
Publisher : ABDO
Page : 115 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2016-12-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781680797503

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The Rising Cost of Education by Emily Rose Oachs Pdf

The Rising Cost of Education covers the skyrocketing tuition fees for higher education, explaining just how expensive tuition is as well as what causes its increase and the risks it poses for Americans. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Essential Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and the Workforce
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : College costs
ISBN : PSU:000049665901

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The rising price of a quality postsecondary education by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and the Workforce Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781428976245

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Higher education tuition increases and colleges' efforts to contain costs : report to the Honorable Charles E. Schumer, House of Representatives by Anonim Pdf

Author : Shawn Katz
Publisher : Fernwood Publishing
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2015-04-01T00:00:00Z
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781552667583

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Generation Rising by Shawn Katz Pdf

First there was the Arab Spring, then the Indignados, then Occupy Wall Street. And then there was the Printemps érable — the Maple Spring. In 2011, proclaiming the need for austerity, Québec’s governing Liberal Party announced a draconian increase in tuition fees. Enraged that the government would destroy a legacy of public education, so hard won during the 1960s Quiet Revolution — a legacy from which they themselves had reaped benefits — the youth of Québec took to the streets in a student strike under the banner of the carrés rouges. They fought not merely for education, but for the future: a future they watch being destroyed by the unrelenting march of capitalism, intent on the merciless exploitation of citizens and natural resources. Generation Rising is the story of the most important mass mobilization in Québec’s (and Canada’s) history. It is the story of six months of brutalization of youth by the police forces of the capitalist class, as the students went toe-to-toe against the corrupt and autocratic elite in an effort to construct a horizontal, participative and grassroots democracy. It is the story of the Internet generation deploying its mastery of social media to harness the forces of hundreds of thousands, and ultimately defeat a battle-hardened premier. At the end of it all, Québec’s first social media mobilization had laid the foundations for a brave new future, where the old world of order and authority might finally be swept aside to make way for a new, twenty-first-century democracy. Le combat est avenir — the fight is the future, and the battle has just begun.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Economic and Educational Opportunities. Subcommittee on Postsecondary Education, Training, and Life-long Learning
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Education
ISBN : UCR:31210014050510

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Hearing on the Rising Cost of College by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Economic and Educational Opportunities. Subcommittee on Postsecondary Education, Training, and Life-long Learning Pdf

Author : Ronald G. Ehrenberg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:740775965

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Tuition Rising by Ronald G. Ehrenberg Pdf

Author : Robert B. Archibald,David Henry Feldman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780190214104

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Why Does College Cost So Much? by Robert B. Archibald,David Henry Feldman Pdf

College tuition has risen more rapidly than the overall inflation rate for much of the past century. To explain rising college cost, the authors place the higher education industry firmly within the larger economic history of the United States.

Author : Marcia Amidon Lusted
Publisher : Greenhaven Publishing LLC
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2018-07-15
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781534503137

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States' Rights and the Role of the Federal Government by Marcia Amidon Lusted Pdf

The balance of power between states and the federal government has long been a point of contention. In an era when one political party controls the three branches of the federal government, the possibility to employ states' rights to resist objectionable federal policy has made it a highly contemporary issue. With states' rights at the center of issues like sanctuary cities, abortion, gun control, and LGBTQ rights, understanding the distribution of power between state and federal government is key to grasping the current political climate and the future of American politics.

Author : Andrew J. Policano,Gary C. Fethke
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2012-05-23
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780804782197

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Public No More by Andrew J. Policano,Gary C. Fethke Pdf

Public No More examines the quickly changing environment within higher education, including the permanent decline in state support for public universities. This book raises the question of how research universities can survive with reduced subsidies and increased competition from both non-profit and growing for-profit institutions. Authors Gary C. Fethke and Andrew J. Policano, both longtime university administrators, offer a strategic framework for determining how tuition and access should be set and how universities should decide on quality and program scope. Throughout the text, real-world examples illustrate successful and unsuccessful adoptions of the authors' proposals. Leadership within public higher education, policymakers, and researchers alike will find Public No More to be a sober and well-grounded guide to what lies ahead for universities across the nation.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Subcommittee on Labor-Management Relations
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Collective labor agreements
ISBN : STANFORD:36105062174334

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Hearing on Collective Bargaining at Private Educational Institutions and in the Performing Arts by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Subcommittee on Labor-Management Relations Pdf

Author : Brian Z. Tamanaha
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2012-06-15
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780226923611

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Failing Law Schools by Brian Z. Tamanaha Pdf

On the surface, law schools today are thriving. Enrollments are on the rise, and their resources are often the envy of every other university department. Law professors are among the highest paid and play key roles as public intellectuals, advisers, and government officials. Yet behind the flourishing facade, law schools are failing abjectly. Recent front-page stories have detailed widespread dubious practices, including false reporting of LSAT and GPA scores, misleading placement reports, and the fundamental failure to prepare graduates to enter the profession. Addressing all these problems and more in a ringing critique is renowned legal scholar Brian Z. Tamanaha. Piece by piece, Tamanaha lays out the how and why of the crisis and the likely consequences if the current trend continues. The out-of-pocket cost of obtaining a law degree at many schools now approaches $200,000. The average law school graduate’s debt is around $100,000—the highest it has ever been—while the legal job market is the worst in decades, with the scarce jobs offering starting salaries well below what is needed to handle such a debt load. At the heart of the problem, Tamanaha argues, are the economic demands and competitive pressures on law schools—driven by competition over U.S. News and World Report ranking. When paired with a lack of regulatory oversight, the work environment of professors, the limited information available to prospective students, and loan-based tuition financing, the result is a system that is fundamentally unsustainable. Growing concern with the crisis in legal education has led to high-profile coverage in the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times, and many observers expect it soon will be the focus of congressional scrutiny. Bringing to the table his years of experience from within the legal academy, Tamanaha has provided the perfect resource for assessing what’s wrong with law schools and figuring out how to fix them.

Author : Francis L. Lawrence
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 461 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-12
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781351509374

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Leadership in Higher Education by Francis L. Lawrence Pdf

In this collection of interviews, presidents and chancellors of some of America's most respected universities candidly reflect on their experiences during the decade leading up to the twenty-first century and immediately following it. This was a time of change and uncertainty, when opportunities for achievement and potential for failure made their role uncommonly challenging, and success called for considerable determination, integrity, foresight, skill, and courage. The American higher education system, often characterized as the best in the world, is distinguished for its scholarship as well as its accessibility. Its indispensable role as an engine for individual and societal economic advancement has made universities the targets of media interest, critical examination, and political manipulation. Higher education has become the passport to the American dream, and the percentage of those going to college has increased, challenging individual institutions and systems to accommodate growing numbers of aspiring students while searching for solutions to problems of inadequate college preparation and inadequate financial assistance for low-income students. Despite their increasing importance to the nation, the region, and their communities, public and private universities have seen states reduce their support to their state systems of higher education, shifting the responsibility to individuals and institutions. Leadership in Higher Education traces the careers of thirteen women and men who have presided over a total of twenty universities or university systems and three national organizations of higher education: Robert Berdahl, Myles Brand, Molly Corbett Broad, John T. Casteen III, Mary Sue Coleman, Norman C. Francis, Nils Hasselmo, Shirley Ann Jackson, Shirley Strum Kenny, William English Kirwan, Francis L. Lawrence, Charles M. Vest, and David Ward.

Author : George Fallis
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781553393344

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Rethinking Higher Education by George Fallis Pdf

The basic structure of universities and colleges in Ontario - one focused primarily on expansion and greater access and put in place in the 1960s - is outdated. The system is now large enough, the eligible age group for entering post-secondary studies is shrinking, and participation rates are as high as they are likely to go. In Rethinking Higher Education, George Fallis argues that policy-makers should shift their attention away from growth and towards improving and diversifying the range of programs available and creating new means of program delivery. He calls for increases in honours undergraduate programs and polytechnic education and envisions a group of research-intensive universities responsible for doctoral education. The existing design, Fallis contends, neglects the specific needs of graduate education and research, layering it on top of a system designed for undergraduate education. In addition, there is disconnection between Ontario's Ministry of Training, Colleges, and Universities and the research missions of the universities and colleges themselves. Fallis recommends that Ontario establish a system for documenting and assessing the quality of research published at universities. Thought-provoking and thoroughly argued, Rethinking Higher Education provides a detailed design for higher education in the twenty-first century.

Author : Robert Kelchen
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2018-02-27
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781421424743

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Higher Education Accountability by Robert Kelchen Pdf

The first comprehensive overview charting the accountability of higher education. As the price tag of higher education continues to rise, colleges and universities across the country are under increasing pressure to demonstrate their value. Graded on numerous metrics, including cost and ability to prepare students for the job market, colleges must satisfy requirements from multiple stakeholders. State and federal governments demand greater accountability. Foundations and private donors, as well as today's parents and students, approach education with a consumer sensibility. How can colleges navigate these pressures while trying to stay true to their missions and values? In Higher Education Accountability, Robert Kelchen delivers the first comprehensive overview of how colleges in the United States came to face such overwhelming scrutiny. Beginning with the earliest efforts to regulate schools, Kelchen reveals the rationale behind accountability and outlines the historical development of how federal and state policies, accreditation practices, private-sector interests, and internal requirements have become so important to institutional success and survival. With so many diverse and conflicting entities holding colleges responsible for their performance, the variety of accountability systems in play can have both intended and unintended consequences. Immersed as they are in current debates about how best to respond to these pressures, faculty and administrators will welcome this up-to-date and timely account, which offers not only a look at current practices but also an examination of the future of accountability in American higher education.