Buying the Best : : Cost Escalation in Elite Higher Education / / Charles T. Clotfelter.
Since the early 1980s, the rapidly increasing cost of college, together with what many see as inadequate attention to teaching, has elicited a barrage of protest. Buying the Best looks at the realities behind these criticisms--at the economic factors that are in fact driving the institutions that ha...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014] ©1996 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | The William G. Bowen Series ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (334 p.) :; 28 line drawings, 66 tables |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Foreword
- Preface
- List of Abbreviations
- Chapter 1. The Problem of Rising Costs
- Chapter 2. A Peculiar Institution
- Chapter 3. Boom Times for Selective Institutions
- Chapter 4. Patterns and Trends in Expenditures
- Chapter 5. The Sources of Rising Expenditures
- Chapter 6. Administrative Functions
- Chapter 7. The Allocation of Faculty Effort
- Chapter 8. Classes and Course Offerings
- Chapter 9. Ambition Meets Opportunity
- Notes to the Chapters
- Bibliography
- Index