Why does college cost so much? / Robert B. Archibald, David H. Feldman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Archibald, Robert B., 1946-

Contributor:

Feldman, David Henry.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

College costs--United States.

College costs.

United States.

Education, Higher--United States--Finance.

Education, Higher.

Finance.

Physical Description:

xii, 289 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.

Contents:

Part I Introduction

1 The Landscape of the College Cost Debate 5

2 Is Higher Education All That Unusual? 19

Part II Costs

3 Higher Education Is a Service 35

4 The Costs of Employing Highly Educated Workers 49

5 Cost and Quality in Higher Education 63

6 The Bottom Line: Why Does College Cost So Much? 82

7 Is Higher Education Increasingly Dysfunctional? 92

8 Productivity Growth in Higher Education 114

Part III Tuition and Fees

9 Subsidies and Tuition Setting 137

10 List-Price Tuition and Institutional Grants 150

11 Outside Financial Aid 171

12 The College Affordability Crisis 185

Part IV Policy

13 Federal Policy and College Tuition 201

14 Financial Aid Policy 214

15 Rewriting the Relationship between States and Their Public Universities 235

16 A Few Final Observations 252.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780199744503

0199744505

OCLC:

544474632