The Market Imperative: Segmentation and Change in Higher Education - Couverture rigide

Zemsky, Robert; Shaman, Susan

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1421424118 ISBN 13 : 9781421424118

Editeur : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018

Synopsis

Thinking about American higher education as an economic market changes everything.

It is no surprise that college tuition and student debt are on the rise. Universities no longer charge tuition to simply cover costs. They are market enterprises that charge whatever the market will bear. Institutional ambition, along with increasing competition for students, now shape the economics of higher education.

In The Market Imperative, Robert Zemsky and Susan Shaman argue that too many institutional leaders and policy makers do not understand how deeply the consumer markets they promoted have changed American higher education. Instead of functioning as a single integrated industry, higher education is in fact a collection of segmented and more or less separate markets. These markets have their own distinctive operating constraints and logics, especially regarding price. But those most responsible for federal higher education policy have made a muck of the enterprise, while state policy making has all but disappeared, the victim of weak imaginations, insufficient funding, and an aversion to targeted investment.

Chapter by chapter, this compelling text draws on new data developed by the authors in a Gates Foundation-funded project to describe the landscape: how the market for higher education distributes students among competing institutions; what the job market is looking for; how markets differ across the fifty states; and how the higher education market determines the kinds of faculty at different kinds of institutions. The volume concludes with a three-pronged set of policies for making American higher education mission centered as well as market smart. Although there is no "one-size-fits-all" approach for reforming higher education, this clearly written book will productively advance understanding of the challenges colleges and universities face by providing a mapping of the configuration of the market for an undergraduate education.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Robert Zemsky is a professor of higher education at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of Checklist for Change: Making American Higher Education a Sustainable Enterprise and the coauthor of The College Stress Test: Tracking Institutional Futures across a Crowded Market.

Susan Shaman is the former director of institutional research at the University of Pennsylvania. With Zemsky, she is the coauthor of The Market Imperative: Segmentation and Change in Higher Education.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1421424118
• ISBN 13: 9781421424118
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 152
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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