书目名称 | Doing More with Less | 副标题 | Making Colleges Work | 编辑 | Joshua C. Hall | 视频video | | 概述 | Assembles contributions from prominent economists studying higher education.Identifies reforms in higher education that are likely to be successful in cutting costs or improving productivity and those | 图书封面 |  | 描述 | This volume contains a collection of papers by economists which examine the various strategies for cutting costs and improving productivity in higher education in the United States. The dramatic increase in the cost of attending most colleges and universities in recent years has led to increasing concerns regarding college affordability. In addition, with nearly 35 percent of full-time college students failing to receive a bachelor’s degree within six years of enrolling in an institution of higher education, the productivity of colleges and universities has also been called into question. Systematic reform of higher education has intensified as a result of the large amount of public and private dollars flowing into it.The chapters in this volume, while recognizing it may be the primary source of the problem, also understand that the political forces behind the subsidization of higher education are unlikely to wane. The contributors examine several areas of possible reform from an economic perspective, including financial aid systems, athletics, and the organization of universities and university systems with an emphasis on identifying the types of reforms that are most likely to re | 出版日期 | Book 2010 | 关键词 | Athletics; Bachelor; College costs; Universities; education; education reform; educational research; higher | 版次 | 1 | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-5960-7 | isbn_softcover | 978-1-4899-9412-7 | isbn_ebook | 978-1-4419-5960-7 | copyright | Springer-Verlag New York 2010 |
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