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019 _a(OCoLC)1029812648
019 _a(OCoLC)1032686761
019 _a(OCoLC)1037981334
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019 _a(OCoLC)1046614257
019 _a(OCoLC)1046921014
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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aClotfelter, Charles T.
_eautore
245 1 0 _aBuying the Best :
_bCost Escalation in Elite Higher Education /
_cCharles T. Clotfelter.
250 _aCourse Book
264 1 _aPrinceton, NJ :
_bPrinceton University Press,
_c[2014]
264 4 _c©1996
300 _a1 online resource (334 p.) :
_b28 line drawings, 66 tables
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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490 0 _aThe William G. Bowen Series ;
_v17
505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tList of Figures --
_tList of Tables --
_tForeword --
_tPreface --
_tList of Abbreviations --
_tChapter 1. The Problem of Rising Costs --
_tChapter 2. A Peculiar Institution --
_tChapter 3. Boom Times for Selective Institutions --
_tChapter 4. Patterns and Trends in Expenditures --
_tChapter 5. The Sources of Rising Expenditures --
_tChapter 6. Administrative Functions --
_tChapter 7. The Allocation of Faculty Effort --
_tChapter 8. Classes and Course Offerings --
_tChapter 9. Ambition Meets Opportunity --
_tNotes to the Chapters --
_tBibliography --
_tIndex
506 0 _arestricted access
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520 _aSince 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 have been described as machines without brakes. In designing his study, Charles Clotfelter examines the escalation in spending in the arts and sciences at four elite institutions: Harvard, Duke, Chicago, and Carleton. He argues that the rise in costs has less to do with increasing faculty salaries or lowered productivity than with a broad-based effort to improve quality, provide new services to students, pay for large investments in new facilities and equipment (including computers), and ensure access for low-income students through increasingly expensive financial aid.In Clotfelter's view, spiraling costs arise from the institutions' lofty ambitions and are made possible by steadily intensifying demand for places in the country's elite colleges and universities. Only if this demand slackens will universities be pressured to make cuts or pursue efficiencies. Buying the Best is the first study to make use of the internal historical records of specific institutions, as opposed to the frequently unreliable aggregate records made available by the federal government for the use of survey researchers. As such, it has the virtue of allowing Clotfelter to draw much more realistic comparative conclusions than have hitherto been reported. While acknowledging the obvious drawbacks of a small sample, Clotfelter notes that the institutions studied are significant for the disproportionate influence they, and comparable elite institutions, exercise upon research and upon the training of future leaders. The book contains a foreword by William G. Bowen, President of the Mellon Foundation, and Harold T. Shapiro, President of Princeton University."Concern about ever-rising costs runs like a thread through the myriad critiques of higher education that have been published in recent years. . . . One of the great contributions of Clotfelter's work is to dismiss easy explanations for the problems that worry us. With some of the scales removed from their eyes, both those with responsibility for the future of higher education and observers who continue to expect an ever-wider scope of effort from particular colleges and universities, can now adjust their focus. Armed with this original and extremely useful analysis, we can confront more directly (and with less romanticism) the real choices before us as we seek to employ limited resources most effectively in the service of teaching and research."-William G. Bowen, President, Mellon Foundation, Harold T. Shapiro, President, Princeton University, from the forewordOriginally published in 1996.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
530 _aIssued also in print.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021)
650 0 _aCollege costs
_zUnited States.
650 0 _aEducation, Higher
_zUnited States
_xFinance.
650 0 _aEducational surveys
_zUnited States.
650 7 _aEDUCATION / Higher.
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700 1 _aBowen, William G.
_eautore
700 1 _aShapiro, Harold T.
_eautore
850 _aIT-RoAPU
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