Doing More with Less Making Colleges Work Better /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Hall, Joshua C. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2010.
• Subjects: Economics.; Education, Higher.; Economic policy.; Economics/Management Science.; Economic Policy.; Educational Policy and Politics.; Higher Education.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-5960-7

This volume contains a collection of papers by economists which examine the various strategies for cutting costs and improving productivity in higher education in the United States. The dramatic increase in the cost of attending most colleges and universities in recent years has led to increasing co...

Table of Contents:

• The American Higher Education Problem
• Financial Aid in Theory and Practice
• Price Discrimination and Rising College Costs: Is There Any Relationship?- Cost Inflation in Intercollegiate Athletics  And Some Modest Proposals for Controlling It
• The Academics Athletics Trade-Off
• For Profit Education in the United States: A Primer
• A Market Funded Colleges Approach to Student Learning and Job Placement: An Insiders View
• The Economics of For Profit Education
• Getting it Right: Where University Systems Lose Information in Designing Programs
• Managing the Internal Organization of Colleges and Universities
• Private It: Outsourcing and Privatization in Higher Education
• Improving Higher Education Using The Principles of Market-Based Management
• A Tale of Two Partners - How Specialization and Division of Labor are Reshaping the Academy.