Higher Education Administrative Costs
Author | : Thomas D. Snyder |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 102 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Education, Higher |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Thomas D. Snyder |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 102 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Education, Higher |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Minnesota. Legislature. Office of the Legislative Auditor. Program Evaluation Division |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 186 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Education, Higher |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Jay P. Greene |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 19 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : College costs |
ISBN | : |
Enrollment at America's leading universities has been increasing dramatically, rising nearly 15 percent between 1993 and 2007. But unlike almost every other growing industry, higher education has not become more efficient. Instead, universities now have more administrative employees and spend more on administration to educate each student. In short, universities are suffering from 'administrative bloat, ' expanding the resources devoted to administration significantly faster than spending on instruction, research and service. A significant reason for the administrative bloat is that students pay only a small portion of administrative costs. The lion's share of university resources comes from the federal and state governments, as well as private gifts and fees for non-educational services. The large and increasing rate of government subsidy for higher education facilitates administrative bloat by insulating students from the costs. Reducing government subsidies would do much to make universities more efficient.
Author | : James V. Koch |
Publisher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 251 |
Release | : 2020-10-13 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 1421438895 |
What role have governing boards played in tuition and fee escalation at four-year public colleges and universities? In the United States, college costs, especially tuition and fees, have increased much more rapidly than either the overall Consumer Price Index or median household income. This cost inflation has effectively closed the doors of higher education to many qualified students and contributed to a staggering $1.5 trillion in student debt. Additionally, the number of college enrollments in the United States actually declined for eight straight years between 2011 and 2019, as college student bodies became increasingly stratified on the basis of family incomes. Virtually every public college cost increase, however, requires a positive vote from each university's governing board—and the record shows that these votes are nearly always unanimous. In Runaway College Costs, James V. Koch and Richard J. Cebula argue that many trustees have forgotten that they should act as fiduciaries who represent the best interests of students, parents, and taxpayers. Instead, Koch and Cebula explain, too often many trustees prize size and more prestigious rankings over access and affordability. These misplaced priorities make them vote in favor of ever more plush facilities, expensive intercollegiate athletic programs, administrative bloat, and outdated models of instruction and research. Koch and Cebula supply groundbreaking empirical evidence on the impact of governing board membership, size, and operations on tuition and fees. They show, for example, that the existence of a powerful statewide governing board exercises significant downward pressure on tuition and fees and that state funding cuts cannot explain more than one-half of the cost increases at the typical four-year public institution. The authors propose an action agenda for governing boards, including changing the incentives placed in front of campus presidents and senior administrators. Finally, they conclude that, although public university governing boards deserve blame for accelerating college cost inflation, they also are ideally situated to improve the situation. Runaway College Costs ends hopefully, suggesting that governing boards and their member trustees actually have the greatest potential to improve the situation. Providing the first rigorous empirical evidence of the impact that various modes of governance have had not only on tuition and fees but also on a half-dozen measures of institutional performance, this book will be of serious interest to governors, legislators, public university board members and their staffs, those interested in supporting the traditional goals of public higher education, and of course students and their parents, as well as taxpayers.
Author | : Thomas D. Snyder |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 86 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Education, Higher |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Robert Kelchen |
Publisher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 271 |
Release | : 2018-02-27 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 1421424738 |
Beginning with the earliest efforts to regulate schools, the author reveals the rationale behind accountability and outlines the historical development of how US federal and state policies, accreditation practices, private-sector interests, and internal requirements have become so important to institutional success and survival
Author | : Thomas D. Snyder |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 100 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Education, Higher |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Rufus Glasper |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Educational Administration and Higher Education |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Benjamin Ginsberg |
Publisher | : OUP USA |
Total Pages | : 261 |
Release | : 2011-08-12 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 019978244X |
Until very recently, American universities were led mainly by their faculties, which viewed intellectual production and pedagogy as the core missions of higher education. Today, as Benjamin Ginsberg warns in this eye-opening, controversial book, "deanlets"--administrators and staffers often without serious academic backgrounds or experience--are setting the educational agenda.The Fall of the Faculty examines the fallout of rampant administrative blight that now plagues the nation's universities. In the past decade, universities have added layers of administrators and staffers to their payrolls every year even while laying off full-time faculty in increasing numbers--ostensibly because of budget cuts. In a further irony, many of the newly minted--and non-academic--administrators are career managers who downplay the importance of teaching and research, as evidenced by their tireless advocacy for a banal "life skills" curriculum. Consequently, students are denied a more enriching educational experience--one defined by intellectual rigor. Ginsberg also reveals how the legitimate grievances of minority groups and liberal activists, which were traditionally championed by faculty members, have, in the hands of administrators, been reduced to chess pieces in a game of power politics. By embracing initiatives such as affirmative action, the administration gained favor with these groups and legitimized a thinly cloaked gambit to bolster their power over the faculty.As troubling as this trend has become, there are ways to reverse it. The Fall of the Faculty outlines how we can revamp the system so that real educators can regain their voice in curriculum policy.