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Why public higher education should be free : how to decrease costs and increase quality at American universities / Robert Samuels.
LIBRA LB2342 .S28 2013
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Samuels, Robert, 1961-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Universities and colleges--United States--Finance.
- Universities and colleges.
- United States.
- Finance.
- Educational accountability--United States.
- Educational accountability.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 178 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2013]
- Summary:
- In Why Public Higher Education Should Be Free, Robert Samuels asserts that many institutions of higher education squander funds and mislead the public about such factors as average class size, faculty-to-student ratios, number of faculty with PhDs, and other indicators of educational quality. In order to fight higher costs and lower quality, Samuels suggests, universities must reallocate these misused funds and concentrate on their core mission of instruction and related research. Samuels argues that the future of our economy and democracy rests on our ability to train students to be thoughtful participants in the production and analysis of knowledge. If leading universities serve only to grant credentials and prestige, our society will suffer irrevocable harm. Presenting the problem of how universities make and spend money, Samuels provides solutions to make these important institutions less expensive and more vital. By using current resources in a more effective manner, we could even, he contends, make all public higher education free. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Why tuition goes up and quality goes down
- Where the money goes in research universities
- Shortchanging undergraduate instruction
- The role of faculty and graduate students
- The rise of the administrative class
- The university as hedge fund
- The high cost of research
- Technology to the rescue?
- Making all public higher education free
- Educating students for a multicultural democracy.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780813561240
- 0813561248
- 9780813561233
- 081356123X
- 9780813561257
- 0813561256
- OCLC:
- 818464972
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