The Economics Of American Higher Education

Author : William E. Becker Jr.
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401129509
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Economics of American Higher Education written by William E. Becker Jr. and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Postsecondary educational institutions in the United States are facing increasing financial stress and waning public support. Unless these trends can be changed, higher education can be expected to stagnate. What, if anything, can be done? As a starting point, advocates of higher education need to more fully recognize the issues associated with the economic mission of higher education and how this mission gets translated into individual student gains, regional growth, and social equity. This requires an understanding of the relationship between the outcomes of higher education and measures of economic productivity and well-being. This volume addresses topics related to the role of postsecondary education in microeconomic development within the United States. At tention is given to the importance of colleges and universities 'in the enhancement of individual students and in the advancement of the com munities and states within which they work. Although several of the chapters in this volume are aimed at research/teaching universities, much of what is presented throughout can be generalized to all of postsecondary education. Little attention, however, is given to the role of higher education in the macroeconomic development of the United States; this topic is covered in our related book, American Higher Education and National Growth.

Author : Stephen A. Hoenack
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438406835
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Economics of American Universities written by Stephen A. Hoenack and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1990-06-01 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses the adjustment of universities to the changing financial environment. Its authors analyze the relationship between higher education inputs and outputs, assess the available information about the determinants of university costs, survey the influence of market conditions and pricing strategies on students' demands for attendance at institutions of higher education, summarize research on the objectives for institutions of higher education held by different participants and funders, analyze how universities determine their priorities and relative funding for different activities and disciplines, and explore the economics of universities' research functions. In addition, the book addresses three questions regarding the external fiscal environment facing American universities. What are the recent and emerging changes in the key economic variables affecting these institutions? What mechanisms have universities used in the past to cope with tighter financial constraints? What are the implications for university research activities as these institutions adjust to their fiscal constraints?

Author : Michael N. Bastedo
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421419904
Total Pages : 571 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Higher Education in the Twenty-First Century written by Michael N. Bastedo and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2016-03-30 with total page 571 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American Higher Education in the Twenty-first century offers a comprehensive introduction to the central issues facing American colleges and universities. The contributors address major changes in higher education--including the rise of organized social movements, the problem of income inequality and stratification, the growth of for-profit and distance education, online education, community colleges, and teaching and learning-- will placing American higher education and its complex social and political context. --Cover.

Author : Stephen A. Hoenack
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791400289
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.8X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Economics of American Universities written by Stephen A. Hoenack and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1990-01-01 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses the adjustment of universities to the changing financial environment. Its authors analyze the relationship between higher education inputs and outputs, assess the available information about the determinants of university costs, survey the influence of market conditions and pricing strategies on students' demands for attendance at institutions of higher education, summarize research on the objectives for institutions of higher education held by different participants and funders, analyze how universities determine their priorities and relative funding for different activities and disciplines, and explore the economics of universities' research functions. In addition, the book addresses three questions regarding the external fiscal environment facing American universities. What are the recent and emerging changes in the key economic variables affecting these institutions? What mechanisms have universities used in the past to cope with tighter financial constraints? What are the implications for university research activities as these institutions adjust to their fiscal constraints?

Author : William Zumeta
Publisher : Harvard Education Press
ISBN 13 : 1612502539
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Financing American Higher Education in the Era of Globalization written by William Zumeta and published by Harvard Education Press. This book was released on 2021-02-23 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This ambitious book grows out of the realization that a convergence of economic, demographic, and political forces in the early twenty-first century requires a fundamental reexamination of the financing of American higher education. The authors identify and address basic issues and trends that cut across the sectors of higher education, focusing on such questions as how much higher education the country needs for individual opportunity and for economic viability in the future; how responsibility for paying for it is currently allocated; and how financing higher education should be addressed in the future.

Author : Selma J. Mushkin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Economics of Higher Education written by Selma J. Mushkin and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Composite work in economic research on higher education in the USA - covers labour demand and supply of professional workers and university graduates, financing educational investment, etc. References and statistical tables.

Author : Richard H. Quay
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 22 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On the Economics of American Higher Education written by Richard H. Quay and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bibliography of approximately 150 materials authored, coauthored, or edited by Howard R. Bowen from 1935 through 1982 on the economics of American higher education is presented. Specific topics include the following: the wide disparity among colleges in educational cost per student; costs colleges spend per student; adult learning, higher education, and the economics of unused capacity; future social needs and demands for highly educated people; goals, outcomes, and academic evaluation; socially imposed costs of higher education; what college does for the family; the compensation of faculty and staff in American higher education; accountability in higher education; career preparation in the independent liberal arts college; measurements of efficiency; higher education and human equality; outcome data and educational decision making; systems theory, excellence, and values--will they mix; toward social economy; the future of private colleges; efficiency in liberal education; faculty guide to academic economics; research and public policy for higher education; academic freedom and the financing of higher education; the changing power structure in American higher education; federal policy alternatives toward graduate education; inflation and the colleges; marketable skills for youth; philanthropy and academic freedom; financing the external degree; student unrest in the United States; role of the college; the uses of liberal education; graduate education in economics; the study of economics in schools of business; and rising tuition. (SW)

Author : Goldie Blumenstyk
Publisher : What Everyone Needs to Know(r)
ISBN 13 : 0199374082
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Higher Education in Crisis? written by Goldie Blumenstyk and published by What Everyone Needs to Know(r). This book was released on 2015 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Disinvestment by states has driven up tuition prices, and student debt has reached an all-time high. Americans are questioning the worth of a college education, even as studies show how important it is to economic and social mobility

Author : Robert B. Archibald
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019025193X
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Road Ahead for America's Colleges and Universities written by Robert B. Archibald and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-07-03 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The US higher education system is on the verge of a revolution, so some observers claim. Archibald and Feldman, leading analysts, provide an incisive overview of the challenges facing and possibilities for America's universities and colleges in their training future generations. And they demonstrate that our higher education system is resilient and adaptable enough to weather the internal, external, and technological threats without changing campuses beyond recognition. The Road Ahead for America's Colleges and Universities examines the threats posed to the current health of higher education by rising tuition and falling government support, as well as from new digital technologies rippling through the entire economy. Some predict disaster, pointing to high costs, exploding debt, and a digital tsunami that supposedly will combine to disrupt and sweep away many of the nation's higher education institutions, or change them beyond recognition. Archibald and Feldman provide a more nuanced view. They argue that the bundle of services that four-year colleges and universities provide will retain its value for the traditional age range of college students. Less certain, Archibald and Feldman argue, is whether the system will continue to be a force for social and economic opportunity. The threats are most dire at schools that disproportionately serve America's most underprivileged students. At the same time, growing income inequality reduces the ability of many students and their families to pay for higher education. Archibald and Feldman suggest a range of policy options at the state and federal level that will help America's higher education system continue to fulfill its promise.

Author : Adam R. Nelson
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226828506
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Exchange of Ideas written by Adam R. Nelson and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2023-12-05 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first volume of an ambitious new economic history of American higher education. Exchange of Ideas launches a breathtakingly ambitious new economic history of American higher education. In this volume, Adam R. Nelson focuses on the early republic, explaining how knowledge itself became a commodity, as useful ideas became salable goods and American colleges were drawn into transatlantic commercial relations. American scholars might once have imagined that higher education could sit beyond the sphere of market activity—that intellectual exchange could transcend vulgar consumerism—but already by the end of the eighteenth century, they saw how ideas could be factored into the nation’s balance of trade. Moreover, they concluded that it was the function of colleges to oversee the complex process whereby knowledge could be priced and purchased. The history of capitalism and the history of higher education, Nelson reveals, are intimately intertwined—which raises a host of important and strikingly urgent questions. How do we understand knowledge and education as commercial goods? Who should pay for them? And, fundamentally, what is the optimal system of higher education in a capitalist democracy?