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Richard VedderPublication Details
BookAEI Press2004Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) LB2342 .V43 2004 AVAILABLE New Feature: Text this to your cellphone
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The dramatic rise in university tuition costs is placing a greater financial burden on millions of college-bound Americans and their families. He suggests that possible solutions to the tuition crisis include modifying tenure, increasing teaching loads, paring administrative staffs, increasing distance learning, and cutting costly noneducational programs. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Subject
Contents
- The cost explosion
- Why are universities inefficient and costly?
- Productivity decline and rent-seeking
- The new peculiar institution
- American higher education : past and present
- Why do we need universities? : first principles of higher education
- Universities and society
- New alternatives to traditional higher education
- Evolutionary change on the campus : one scenario
- An alternative scenario : systemic reform
- The future of the American university
ISBN
- 0844741973
- 9780844741970
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