Buying the Best : Cost Escalation in Elite Higher Education /

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Since the early 1980s, the rapidly increasing cost of college, together with what many see as inadequate attention to teaching, has elicited a barrage of protest. Buying the Best looks at the realities behind these criticisms--at the economic factors that are in fact driving the institutions that ha...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Clotfelter, Charles T. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [1996]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Educational surveys.
Education, Higher > Finance.
College costs.
EDUCATION > Higher.
Educational surveys > United States.
Education, Higher > United States > Finance.
College costs > United States.
United States.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Figures
  • List of Tables
  • Foreword / Bowen, William G. ; Shapiro, Harold T.
  • Preface
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Chapter 1. The Problem of Rising Costs
  • Chapter 2. A Peculiar Institution
  • Chapter 3. Boom Times for Selective Institutions
  • Chapter 4. Patterns and Trends in Expenditures
  • Chapter 5. The Sources of Rising Expenditures
  • Chapter 6. Administrative Functions
  • Chapter 7. The Allocation of Faculty Effort
  • Chapter 8. Classes and Course Offerings
  • Chapter 9. Ambition Meets Opportunity
  • Notes to the Chapters
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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