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.
Subjects:
College costs > United States.
Education > United States > Finance.
Education, Higher > Economic aspects > United States.
EDUCATION / Higher.
EDUCATION / Finance.
EDUCATION / Reference.
Physical Description:xxviii, 364 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.