Going broke by degree : why college costs too much / Richard Vedder.
2004
LB2342 .V43 2004 (Mapit)
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Title
Going broke by degree : why college costs too much / Richard Vedder.
Author
Vedder, Richard K.
ISBN
0844741973 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780844741970 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780844741970 (cloth ; alk. paper)
Imprint
Washington, D.C. : AEI Press, ©2004.
Language
English
Description
xxv, 259 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Call Number
LB2342 .V43 2004
Dewey Decimal Classification
378.3/8
Summary
"Vedder's research demonstrates that America's universities have become less productive, less efficient, and more likely to use tuition money and state and federal grants to subsidize non-instructional activities such as athletics. These factors combine to produce dramatic hikes in tuition, making it more difficult for Americans to afford college."
"Vedder believes that competition from for-profit universities (the fastest growing sector in higher education), computer-based distance learning, and nonuniversity certification of skills can be a powerful force for needed change. He suggests that possible solutions to the tuition crisis include modifying tenure, increasing teaching loads, paring administrative staffs, increasing distance learning, and cutting costly noneducational programs. He also suggests even more dramatic changes, including transforming state grants to universities into student voucher programs, as well as other steps to increase privatization of state universities."--Jacket.
"Vedder believes that competition from for-profit universities (the fastest growing sector in higher education), computer-based distance learning, and nonuniversity certification of skills can be a powerful force for needed change. He suggests that possible solutions to the tuition crisis include modifying tenure, increasing teaching loads, paring administrative staffs, increasing distance learning, and cutting costly noneducational programs. He also suggests even more dramatic changes, including transforming state grants to universities into student voucher programs, as well as other steps to increase privatization of state universities."--Jacket.
Note
"Vedder believes that competition from for-profit universities (the fastest growing sector in higher education), computer-based distance learning, and nonuniversity certification of skills can be a powerful force for needed change. He suggests that possible solutions to the tuition crisis include modifying tenure, increasing teaching loads, paring administrative staffs, increasing distance learning, and cutting costly noneducational programs. He also suggests even more dramatic changes, including transforming state grants to universities into student voucher programs, as well as other steps to increase privatization of state universities."--Jacket.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
The cost explosion
Why are universities inefficient and costly?
Productivity decline and rent-seeking
The new peculiar institution
American higher education : past and present
Why do we need universities? : first principles of higher education
Universities and society
New alternatives to traditional higher education
Evolutionary change on the campus : one scenario
An alternative scenario : systemic reform
The future of the American university.
Why are universities inefficient and costly?
Productivity decline and rent-seeking
The new peculiar institution
American higher education : past and present
Why do we need universities? : first principles of higher education
Universities and society
New alternatives to traditional higher education
Evolutionary change on the campus : one scenario
An alternative scenario : systemic reform
The future of the American university.