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Economic Challenges in Higher Education.
The last two decades have been a turbulent period for American higher education, with profound demographic shifts, gyrating salaries, and marked changes in the economy. While enrollments rose about 50% in that period, sharp increases in tuition and fees at colleges and universities provoke accusatio...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
1991.
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| Colección: | National Bureau of Economic Research monograph.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | The last two decades have been a turbulent period for American higher education, with profound demographic shifts, gyrating salaries, and marked changes in the economy. While enrollments rose about 50% in that period, sharp increases in tuition and fees at colleges and universities provoke accusations of inefficiency, even outright institutional greed and irresponsibility. As the 1990s progress, surpluses in the academic labor supply may give way to shortages in many fields, but will there be enough new Ph. D.'s to go around?. Drawing on the authors' experience as economists and educators, this. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (436 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9780226110622 0226110621 |