The Problem of Higher College Tuition

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. PREFATORY NOTE 3
3. CONTENTS 5
4. I. INTRODUCTION
5. Introduction: Some Broad Issues 9
6. II. PRICING AND THE STUDENT BODY
7. Summary of Proceedings 29
8. A College Administrator Views the Tuition Problem 40
9. Is the Low-Tuition Principle Outmoded? 44
10. Higher Fees and the Position of Private Institutions 48
11. Equalizing Opportunity under Higher Charges 52
12. Some General Observations on the Pricing of Higher Education 55
13. The Problem of Higher College Tuition 61
14. Tuition and Costs 73
15. III. GOVERNMENT AID
16. Summary of Proceedings 75
17. Some Issues Raised by Recent Legislation 83
18. Federal and State Aid 88
19. State Aid for Private Institutions in Pennsylvania 91
20. The Tax-Credit Proposal 93
21. Higher Education and the Federal Budget 96
22. IV. FACULTY STATUS
23. Summary of Proceedings 102
24. Faculty Problems in the Liberal Arts College 111
25. Some Issues of Supply and Productivity 115
26. Non-Economic Aspects of Academic Morale 118
27. Faculty Pay and Institutional Extravagance 122
28. Some Statistical Aspects 125
29. V. EXPERIMENT IN HIGHER EDUCATION; EDUCATIONAL AND ECONOMIC ISSUES
30. Summary of Proceedings 129
31. The Hofstra Experiment for Commuters 136
32. The New College Plan 140
33. The Dartmouth Experiment 146
34. Theories of Higher Education and the Experimental College 152
35. Experimentation and the Liberal Arts College 156
36. Some Problems at Amherst 160
37. The College Plan at Wesleyan 163
38. VI. ECONOMICS AND EDUCATIONAL VALUES
39. Summary of Proceedings 166
40. Some Problems of Assessing (and Improving) the Quality of a College 173
41. Economies and Educational Values 178
42. Problems in Estimating the Monetary Value of College Education 180
43. Increasing Productivity in Higher Education 185
44. Teaching Machines 189
45. Some Observations on the Allocation of Resources in Higher Education 192
46. The High Cost of Low-Cost Education 199
47. VII. INVESTMENT AND ENDOWMENT POLICIES
48. Summary of Proceedings 203
49. Difficulties in Determining Investment Policies 214
50. Objectives of Investment Policies 219
51. Some Examples of Experience with Growth Stocks 222
52. Growth and Income 224
53. Investment Possibilities 229
54. 61 Broadway 232
55. Unorthodox Investing 235
56. Should Harvard Borrow? 239
57. Recent Trends in Endowment 242
58. Special Problems in Public Institutions 245
59. APPENDIX 249
60. INDEX 251