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Category : Education, Higher
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Appropriations of State Tax Funds for Operating Expenses of Higher Education, 1990-91
Author: State Higher Education Profiles
Author: Resources in Education
Author: Resource Allocation in Higher Education
Author: William F. MassyPublisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472106868
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Offers guidance for implementing reforms in the allocation of resources in colleges and universities
American Higher Education in the Twenty-First Century
Author: Philip G. AltbachPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801880353
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 572
Book Description
This new edition explores current issues of central importance to the academy: leadership, accountability, access, finance, technology, academic freedom, the canon, governance, and race. Chapters also deal with key constituencies -- students and faculty -- in the context of a changing academic environment.
Land of the Fee
Author: Devin FergusPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199970173
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
The loans ordinary Americans take out to purchase homes and attend college often leave them in a sea of debt. As Devin Fergus explains in Land of the Fee, a not-insignificant portion of that debt comes in the form of predatory hidden fees attached to everyday transactions. Beginning in the 1980s, lobbyists for the financial industry helped dismantle consumer protections, resulting in surreptitious fees-often waived for those who can afford them but not for those who can't. Bluntly put, these hidden fees unfairly keep millions of Americans from their hard-earned money. Journalists and policymakers have identified the primary causes of increasing wealth inequality-fewer good working class jobs, a rise in finance-driven speculative capitalism, and a surge of tax policy decisions that benefit the ultra-rich, among others. However, they miss one commonplace but substantial contributor to the widening divide between the rich and the rest: the explosion of fees on every transaction people make in their daily lives. Land of the Fee traces the system of fees from its origins in the deregulatory wave of the late 1970s to the present. The average consumer now pays a dizzying array of charges for mortgage contracts, banking transactions, auto insurance rates, college payments, and payday loans. These fees are buried in the pages of small-print agreements that few consumers read or understand. Because these fees do not fall under usury laws, they have redistributed wealth to large corporations and their largest shareholders. By exposing this predatory and nearly invisible system of fees, Land of the Fee reshapes our understanding of wealth inequality in America.
American Universities and Colleges
Author: Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110850486
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 2012
Book Description
No detailed description available for "American Universities and Colleges".
Higher Education Under Fire
Author: Michael BerubePublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000143309
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
The contributors to this collection explore why--and how--higher education in America under attack.
Statistical Reference Index
Author: Refinancing the College Dream
Author: Edward P. St. JohnPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 142141578X
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
During the 1990s, rising tuition costs and inadequate federal grant aid prevented more than a million otherwise qualified, low-income students from continuing their education past high school. Education policy expert Edward P. St. John is troubled by this situation and argues that equal access to higher education is both feasible and just. In Refinancing the College Dream, he examines recent trends in public funding of education and explores alternatives to financing which would provide equal access to postsecondary education for all Americans. The growing gap in the rate of participation in higher education for low-income groups compared to upper-income groups over the past three decades, St. John finds, has been a direct result of the decreased availability of federal grants, even after taking into account such factors as an increased emphasis on strengthening high school graduation requirements. To reverse this trend, he suggests that policymakers refocus the debate over the public financing of higher education from taxpayer costs to principles of social responsibility and justice, along with economic theories of human capital. He then shows how improved coordination between state and federal agencies, expanded use of loans, and better targeting of grant aid can maximize access for low-income students while minimizing increases in taxes. Making higher education accessible to low-income students is one of the crucial challenges for citizens and policymakers in the early twenty-first century. Refinancing the College Dream offers a theoretical and practical foundation for boldly rethinking the financial strategies used by colleges and universities, states, and the federal government to accomplish this essential goal.