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Buying the Best - Charles T. Clotfelter

Buying the Best

Cost Escalation in Elite Higher Education
Buch | Hardcover
272 Seiten
1996
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-02642-8 (ISBN)
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This text looks at the rapidly escalating cost of higher education in the United States, by studying the cases of four influential colleges. Clotfelter argues that these increases stem from colleges' ambitions to improve quality and resources, whilst ensuring access for low-income students.
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 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 insure 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 sig-nificant 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.
Reihe/Serie National Bureau of Economic Research Publications
Zusatzinfo 28 line drawings, 66 tables
Verlagsort New Jersey
Sprache englisch
Maße 197 x 254 mm
Gewicht 680 g
Themenwelt Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Erwachsenenbildung
ISBN-10 0-691-02642-4 / 0691026424
ISBN-13 978-0-691-02642-8 / 9780691026428
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