The rising costs of higher education : a reference handbook / John R. Thelin.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Thelin, J. R. (John R.)
Language:English
Published: Santa Barbara, California : ABC-CLIO, [2013]
Series:Contemporary world issues.
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Physical Description:xxviii, 364 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Format: Book

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505 0 |a 1. Background and history -- Introduction: College costs in the national news media -- From popular press to public policies -- Access and affordability in American Higher Education -- Tradition of college consumerism -- Charters and college building in America -- College costs and competition in the 19th century -- Student financial aid precedents and practices -- Attracting students by discounts and low prices -- Prosperity and prestige from 1880 to 1910 -- Colleges between World War I and World War II -- Post World War II innovation, the GI bill and student financial aid -- Prestige and popularity of colleges, 1950 to 1970 -- Need blind admissions and need based financial aid, 1960 to 1980 -- Federal Government and student financial aid initiatives, 1950-2010 -- Hard times, the new depression in higher education, 1973 to 1985 -- High point of student consumerism -- Cost escalation and tuition price fixing allegations -- Rise of loans in federal student financial aid programs, 1978-2011 -- Best of times and worst of times in student financial aid 2000 to 2011 -- Categories of college costs and the contemporary campus -- Costs complexity, the case of the multipurpose university -- Prices and costs in higher education, decentralized academic budgeting -- 2. Problems, controversies and solutions -- Connections, past to present -- Concepts crucial to college costs -- Complexity of the modern campus -- Universities versus business corporations -- Problems within the college and university -- Faculty, administration and students as the problem in rising college costs -- The administration as the problem in rising college costs -- Students as the problem in rising college costs -- Research and development -- Academic Medical Centers -- Intercollegiate athletics -- Policy perspective, state government and higher education. 
505 0 |a Policy perspective, the federal government and higher education -- Controversies over policies: Problems of rising college costs -- Price versus cost -- Access versus choice -- Admissions versus affordability -- Efficiency versus effectiveness -- Student financial aid, need based versus merit scholarships -- Student financial aid, packaging and layers -- Public good versus private good -- Tuition gap -- Explanation on college costs -- Solutions to the problems of rising college costs -- Faculty accountability -- Eliminate faculty tenure -- High tuition, high need based aid -- Clarity of purpose -- Rely on Distance learning technology -- Rely on Private fundraising -- Conclusion: Equity and excellence in American higher education -- 3. Perspectives -- Introduction to the forum on policy perspectives -- College cost problem, the view from the delta cost project / Jane V. Wellman -- Defining the college cost problem -- Growing economic stratification between institutions -- Growing price/cost gap -- Slight decline in the instructional share of spending -- Employee benefits increasing, particularly in public institutions -- Modest but Promising increases in productivity -- Perspectives on the rising costs of higher education / Ronald G. Ehrenberg -- Why Tuition kept rising -- Will tuition keep rising -- College cost, over hyped and misunderstood /Robert B. Archibald and David H. Feldman -- College of William and Mary -- Poor pricing information -- Misconceptions about the factors driving college costs -- How much have college prices really increased / Terry W. Hartle -- Posted price has increased sharply in the last decade. 
505 0 |a Why cost matters, the taxpayer burden of higher education -- Is the price and cost of a degree worth it to taxpayers -- Public institutions cost taxpayers more than private ones -- Percent of total annual cost to taxpayers per student earning Bachelor's degree -- Conclusion -- Too high a price? The impact of college prices on underserved students / Brian A. Sponsler, Alisa F. Cunningham -- Underserved student responses to high college prices -- Addressing student perceptions of high prices -- Learning from student reactions to high price -- Just say no to "sticker price" / Andrew P. Kelly -- Families need net prices -- Broadening definitions of cost -- Summing up -- Forecasting our risks / Kristine E. Dillon -- Commotion at the gates: Higher education evolving role in U.S. inequality / James C. Hearn -- International perspectives on the rising cost of higher education / D. Bruce Johnstone -- 4. Profiles -- 5. Documents: Constitution of the American Society for Educating pious youth for the Gospel Ministry -- Morrill land grant act -- Foundation and the privately endowed university as a new type -- Serviceman's Readjustment Act -- President's commission report on higher education for American democracy -- California Master plan (The Donahoe Act) -- Higher Education Act Reauthorization, creation of the BEOG (Pell Grants) -- What price egalitarianism -- Delta Cost project report summary -- 6. Resources -- 7. Chronology. 
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