Tuition Rising: Why College Costs So Much, With a New Preface - Couverture souple

Ehrenberg, Ronald G.

 
9780674009882: Tuition Rising: Why College Costs So Much, With a New Preface
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ISBN 10 : 0674009886 ISBN 13 : 9780674009882
Editeur : Harvard University Press, 2002

Synopsis

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.

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À propos de l'auteur

Ronald G. Ehrenberg is Irving M. Ives Professor of Industrial and Labor Relations and Economics at Cornell University and Director of the Cornell Higher Education Research Institute.

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Éditeur
Harvard University Press
Date d'édition
2002
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0674009886
ISBN 13 
9780674009882
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Nombre de pages
336
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