Author: Frank M. BowenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
State Fiscal Stringency and Public Higher Education
Author: Frank M. BowenState Budgeting for Higher Education, State Fiscal Stringency and Public Higher Education
Author: Frank M. BowenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education, Higher
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Saving State U
Author: Nancy FolbrePublisher: New Press, The
ISBN: 1595585311
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
Once upon a time, students who were willing and able to work hard could obtain an affordable, high-quality education at a public university. Those times are gone. Intensified admissions competition coupled with opposition to public spending has scorched every campus. Budget cuts, tuition hikes, and debt burdens are undermining the best path to upward mobility that this country ever built. But despite all of this, Americans still embrace ideals of equal opportunity and know that higher education represents a public good. Students, faculty, staff, and advocates are beginning to build political coalitions and develop new strategies to improve access, enhance quality, and simplify financial aid. This book celebrates and will fortify their efforts. In Saving State U, economist Nancy Folbre brings the national debates of education experts down to the level of trying to teach—and trying to learn—at major state universities whose budgets have repeatedly been slashed, restored, and then slashed again. Here is a brilliant firsthand account of the stakes involved, the politics, and the key debates raging through public campuses today. In a passionate, accessible voice, Folbre also offers a sobering vision of the many possible futures of public higher education and their links to the fate of our democracy while looking at the practical ways in which change is now possible.
Statewide Budget Cuts and Public Higher Education
Author: Paul Mitchell KellyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education, Higher
Languages : en
Pages : 630
Book Description
Case Studies of Institutional Responses to the Condition of Fiscal Stringency 1974-1975 to 1978-1979 by Three Michigan Universities and State Colleges
Author: James D. FielderPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Universities and colleges
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
State Budgeting for Higher Education, State Fiscal Stringency and Public Higher Education
Author: Frank M. BowenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education, Higher
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
The States and Public Higher Education Policy
Author: Donald E. HellerPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421401215
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Affordability, access, and accountability have long been among the central challenges facing higher education -- and they remain so today. Here, Donald E. Heller and other higher education scholars and practitioners explore the current debates surrounding these key issues. As students and their families struggle to meet rising tuition prices, and as state funding for higher education dwindles, policymakers confront issues of affordability within state and institutional budgets. Changing demographics and challenges to affirmative action complicate the admissions process even as colleges and universities seek to diversify enrollments. And issues of institutional accountability have forced the restructuring of higher education governing boards and a reexamination of the role of public trustees in governance. This collection analyzes how issues of affordability, access, and accountability influence the way in which state governments approach, monitor, and set public higher education policy. The contributors examine the latest research on pressing challenges, explore how states are coping with these challenges, and consider what the future holds for public postsecondary education in the United States. Praise for the first edition "Affordability, access, and accountability will continue to be hot-button issues as legislators at all levels address constituents' concerns about their children's future... Any administrator who wants to gain a deeper understanding of these issues... might do well to spend some time with these essays." -- University Business
Public Funding of Higher Education
Author: Edward P. St. JohnPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801882593
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Much of the twentieth century saw broad political support for public funding of American higher education. Liberals supported public investment because it encouraged social equity, conservatives because it promoted economic development. Recently, however, the politics of higher education have become more contentious. Conservatives advocate deep cuts in public financing; liberals want to expand enrollment and increase diversity. Some public universities have embraced privatization, while federal aid for students increasingly emphasizes middle-class affordability over universal access. In Public Funding of Higher Education, scholars and practitioners address the complexities of this new climate and its impact on policy and political advocacy at the federal, state, and institutional levels. Rethinking traditional rationales for public financing, contributors to this volume offer alternatives for policymakers, administrators, faculty, students, and researchers struggling with this difficult practical dynamic. Contributors: M. Christopher Brown II, Pennsylvania State University; Jason L. Butler, University of Illinois; Choong-Geun Ching, Indiana University; Clifton F. Conrad, University of Wisconsin–Madison; Saran Donahoo, University of Illinois; James Farmer, JA-SIG uPortal; James C. Hearn, Vanderbilt University; Janet M. Holdsworth, University of Minnesota; Don Hossler, Indiana University; John R. Thelin, University of Kentucky; Mary Louise Trammell, University of Arizona; David J. Weerts, University of Wisconsin–Madison; William Zumeta, University of Washington
Higher Education
Author: D. Kent HalsteadPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education, Higher
Languages : en
Pages : 792
Book Description
Performance Funding for Higher Education
Author: Kevin J. DoughertyPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 142142083X
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Ultimately, the authors recommend that states create new ways of helping colleges with many at-risk students, define performance indicators and measures better tailored to institutional missions, and improve the capacity of colleges to engage in organizational learning.