Higher Education in the United States : : The Economic Problems / / ed. by Seymour E. Harris.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP e-dition: Complete eBook Package
• MitwirkendeR: Adams, John Cranford,; Bates, George E.,; Bennett, George F.,; Bokelman, W. Robert,; Bowles, Frank H.,; Bridgman, D. S.,; Bump, Boardman,; Cabot, Paul C.,; Cain, J. Harvey,; Caplow, Theodore,; Cole, Charles W.,; Coombs, Philip H.,; Cooper, Richard N.,; Deitch, Kenneth,; Eckstein, Otto,; Eurich, Alvin C,; Gladfelter, Millard E.,; Hall, J. Parker,; Harris, Seymour E.,; Houston, Livingston W.,; Hughes, Everett C.,; Iffert, Robert E.,; Johnson, Eldon L.,; Kaysen, Carl,; Keeney, Barnaby C.,; Mather, J. Paul,; McCune, Shannon,; Meek, John F.,; Moon, Rexford G.,; Morrison, Donald H.,; Morse, John F.,; Musgrave, Richard A.,; Niebuhr, Elizabeth,; O’Dowd, Donald D.,; Riesman, David,; Sanford, Nevitt,; Skinner, B. F.,; Stewart, Blair,; Thorp, Willard L.,; Tripp, Hulbert W.,; Underhill, Robert M.,; Wilson, O. Meredith,; Wolfle, Dael,
• TeilnehmendeR: Cooper, Richard N.; Green, Reginald H.; Harris, Seymour E.; Humez, Elisabeth.
• HerausgeberIn: Harris, Seymour E.,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2013]; ©1960
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Edition: Reprint 2014
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (252 p.) :; 30 tables, 3 figures, 2 charts

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- PREFATORY NOTE -- CONTENTS -- I. INTRODUCTION -- Introduction: Some Broad Issues -- II. PRICING AND THE STUDENT BODY -- Summary of Proceedings -- A College Administrator Views the Tuition Problem -- Is the Low-Tuition Principle Outmoded? -- Higher Fees and the Position of Private Institutions -- Equalizing Opportunity under Higher Charges -- Some General Observations on the Pricing of Higher Education -- The Problem of Higher College Tuition -- Tuition and Costs -- III. GOVERNMENT AID -- Summary of Proceedings -- Some Issues Raised by Recent Legislation -- Federal and State Aid -- State Aid for Private Institutions in Pennsylvania -- The Tax-Credit Proposal -- Higher Education and the Federal Budget -- IV. FACULTY STATUS -- Summary of Proceedings -- Faculty Problems in the Liberal Arts College -- Some Issues of Supply and Productivity -- Non-Economic Aspects of Academic Morale -- Faculty Pay and Institutional Extravagance -- Some Statistical Aspects -- V. EXPERIMENT IN HIGHER EDUCATION; EDUCATIONAL AND ECONOMIC ISSUES -- Summary of Proceedings -- The Hofstra Experiment for Commuters -- The New College Plan -- The Dartmouth Experiment -- Theories of Higher Education and the Experimental College -- Experimentation and the Liberal Arts College -- Some Problems at Amherst -- The College Plan at Wesleyan -- VI. ECONOMICS AND EDUCATIONAL VALUES -- Summary of Proceedings -- Some Problems of Assessing (and Improving) the Quality of a College -- Economies and Educational Values -- Problems in Estimating the Monetary Value of College Education -- Increasing Productivity in Higher Education -- Teaching Machines -- Some Observations on the Allocation of Resources in Higher Education -- The High Cost of Low-Cost Education -- VII. INVESTMENT AND ENDOWMENT POLICIES -- Summary of Proceedings -- Difficulties in Determining Investment Policies -- Objectives of Investment Policies -- Some Examples of Experience with Growth Stocks -- Growth and Income -- Investment Possibilities -- 61 Broadway -- Unorthodox Investing -- Should Harvard Borrow? -- Recent Trends in Endowment -- Special Problems in Public Institutions -- APPENDIX -- INDEX