Tuition Rising: Why College Costs So Much, With a New PrefaceAmerica’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. |
Contents
Why Do Costs Keep Rising at Selective Private Colleges and Universities? | 17 |
Who Is in Charge of the University? | 22 |
Wealth Is in Charge of the University? | 27 |
Endowment Policies Development Policies and the Color of Money | 29 |
Undergraduate and Graduate Program Rankings | 44 |
Admissions and Financial Aid Policies | 64 |
The Primacy of Science over Economics | 85 |
Why Relative Prices Dont Matter | 87 |
Internal Transfer Prices | 151 |
Enrollment Management | 165 |
Information Technology Libraries and Distance Learning | 181 |
The Nonacademic Infrastructure | 201 |
Parking and Transportation | 203 |
Cooling Systems | 212 |
Student Life | 225 |
Intercollegiate Athletics and Gender Equity | 227 |
Staying on the Cutting Edge in Science | 98 |
The Faculty | 105 |
Salaries | 107 |
Tenure and the End of Mandatory Retirement | 120 |
Space | 131 |
Deferred Maintenance Space Planning and Imperfect Information | 133 |
The Costs of Space | 140 |
Academic and Administrative Issues | 149 |
Dining and Housing | 243 |
Conclusion | 257 |
Looking to the Future | 259 |
A Final Thought | 277 |
Defined Benefit and Defined Contribution Retirement Plans | 281 |
Notes | 285 |
Acknowledgments | 297 |
Index | 301 |
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Tuition Rising: Why College Costs So Much, With a New Preface Ronald G. Ehrenberg Limited preview - 2002 |
Tuition Rising: Why College Costs So Much, With a New Preface Ronald G. Ehrenberg Limited preview - 2002 |
Tuition Rising: Why College Costs So Much, With a New Preface Ronald G. Ehrenberg Limited preview - 2000 |