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The Impoverishment of the American College Student : The Impoverishment of the American Student /
Tuition and fees at public colleges and universities consistently have risen twice or even three times as fast as comparable increases in the Consumer Price Index in recent years. Since 2000 these costs have even grown 60 percent faster than health care costs. The results have been rapidly rising st...
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Washington, D.C. :
Brookings Institution Press,
[2019]
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Table des matières:
- The spiraling costs of higher education
- The student fallback option : loans and debt
- A rising flood of student indebtedness
- Cross-subsidies and affordability in public higher education
- A closer look at redistributive student pricing
- College endowments and tuition : should there be a tighter connection?
- Declining state support for education and what it means for America
- William Bennett's gauntlet : is the federal government part of the problem?
- Baumol, Bowen, and the overworked string quartet simile-- Bowen's rule : faculty activity, administrative bloat, amenities, and mission and curriculum creep
- Parsing the evidence and evaluating solutions to the college cost crisis.