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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Clotfelter, Charles T.
Otros Autores: Ehrenberg, Ronald G., Getz, Malcolm
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1991.
Colección:National Bureau of Economic Research monograph.
Temas:
College attendance > United States.
College costs > United States.
College teachers > Supply and demand > United States.
Education, Higher > Economic aspects > United States.
Education, Higher > United States > Statistics.
Effectifs étudiants > États-Unis.
Enseignement supérieur > Aspect économique > États-Unis.
College attendance
College costs
College teachers > Supply and demand
Education, Higher
Education, Higher > Economic aspects
United States
economics, higher education, university, college, public policy studies, industrial, labor relations, american culture, united states of america, usa, demographics, economy, enrollment, students, inefficiency, institutions, educators, undergraduates, faculty, academics, attendance, teachers, professors, costs, productivity.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Economic Challenges in Higher Education; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I Demand for Undergraduate Education; 1. Size and Significance; 2. Patterns of Enrollment and Completion; 3. Explaining the Demand; 4. Financial Aid and Public Policy; 5 . Implications of Recent Enrollment Trends; Part II Academic Labor Supply; 6. Projections of Shortages; 7. A Stock Flow Model of Academic Labor Supply; 8. Decisions to Undertake and Complete Doctoral Study and Choices of Sector of Employment; 9. The Demographic Distribution of American Doctorates.

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