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Higher Education in the United States : The Economic Problems / ed. by Seymour E. Harris.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2013]Copyright date: ©1960Edition: Reprint 2014Description: 1 online resource (252 p.) : 30 tables, 3 figures, 2 chartsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780674423299
  • 9780674423305
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 378.1
LOC classification:
  • LB2342
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- PREFATORY NOTE -- CONTENTS -- I. INTRODUCTION -- Introduction: Some Broad Issues -- II. PRICING AND THE STUDENT BODY -- Summary of Proceedings -- A College Administrator Views the Tuition Problem -- Is the Low-Tuition Principle Outmoded? -- Higher Fees and the Position of Private Institutions -- Equalizing Opportunity under Higher Charges -- Some General Observations on the Pricing of Higher Education -- The Problem of Higher College Tuition -- Tuition and Costs -- III. GOVERNMENT AID -- Summary of Proceedings -- Some Issues Raised by Recent Legislation -- Federal and State Aid -- State Aid for Private Institutions in Pennsylvania -- The Tax-Credit Proposal -- Higher Education and the Federal Budget -- IV. FACULTY STATUS -- Summary of Proceedings -- Faculty Problems in the Liberal Arts College -- Some Issues of Supply and Productivity -- Non-Economic Aspects of Academic Morale -- Faculty Pay and Institutional Extravagance -- Some Statistical Aspects -- V. EXPERIMENT IN HIGHER EDUCATION; EDUCATIONAL AND ECONOMIC ISSUES -- Summary of Proceedings -- The Hofstra Experiment for Commuters -- The New College Plan -- The Dartmouth Experiment -- Theories of Higher Education and the Experimental College -- Experimentation and the Liberal Arts College -- Some Problems at Amherst -- The College Plan at Wesleyan -- VI. ECONOMICS AND EDUCATIONAL VALUES -- Summary of Proceedings -- Some Problems of Assessing (and Improving) the Quality of a College -- Economies and Educational Values -- Problems in Estimating the Monetary Value of College Education -- Increasing Productivity in Higher Education -- Teaching Machines -- Some Observations on the Allocation of Resources in Higher Education -- The High Cost of Low-Cost Education -- VII. INVESTMENT AND ENDOWMENT POLICIES -- Summary of Proceedings -- Difficulties in Determining Investment Policies -- Objectives of Investment Policies -- Some Examples of Experience with Growth Stocks -- Growth and Income -- Investment Possibilities -- 61 Broadway -- Unorthodox Investing -- Should Harvard Borrow? -- Recent Trends in Endowment -- Special Problems in Public Institutions -- APPENDIX -- INDEX
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Frontmatter -- PREFATORY NOTE -- CONTENTS -- I. INTRODUCTION -- Introduction: Some Broad Issues -- II. PRICING AND THE STUDENT BODY -- Summary of Proceedings -- A College Administrator Views the Tuition Problem -- Is the Low-Tuition Principle Outmoded? -- Higher Fees and the Position of Private Institutions -- Equalizing Opportunity under Higher Charges -- Some General Observations on the Pricing of Higher Education -- The Problem of Higher College Tuition -- Tuition and Costs -- III. GOVERNMENT AID -- Summary of Proceedings -- Some Issues Raised by Recent Legislation -- Federal and State Aid -- State Aid for Private Institutions in Pennsylvania -- The Tax-Credit Proposal -- Higher Education and the Federal Budget -- IV. FACULTY STATUS -- Summary of Proceedings -- Faculty Problems in the Liberal Arts College -- Some Issues of Supply and Productivity -- Non-Economic Aspects of Academic Morale -- Faculty Pay and Institutional Extravagance -- Some Statistical Aspects -- V. EXPERIMENT IN HIGHER EDUCATION; EDUCATIONAL AND ECONOMIC ISSUES -- Summary of Proceedings -- The Hofstra Experiment for Commuters -- The New College Plan -- The Dartmouth Experiment -- Theories of Higher Education and the Experimental College -- Experimentation and the Liberal Arts College -- Some Problems at Amherst -- The College Plan at Wesleyan -- VI. ECONOMICS AND EDUCATIONAL VALUES -- Summary of Proceedings -- Some Problems of Assessing (and Improving) the Quality of a College -- Economies and Educational Values -- Problems in Estimating the Monetary Value of College Education -- Increasing Productivity in Higher Education -- Teaching Machines -- Some Observations on the Allocation of Resources in Higher Education -- The High Cost of Low-Cost Education -- VII. INVESTMENT AND ENDOWMENT POLICIES -- Summary of Proceedings -- Difficulties in Determining Investment Policies -- Objectives of Investment Policies -- Some Examples of Experience with Growth Stocks -- Growth and Income -- Investment Possibilities -- 61 Broadway -- Unorthodox Investing -- Should Harvard Borrow? -- Recent Trends in Endowment -- Special Problems in Public Institutions -- APPENDIX -- INDEX

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