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Stretching the Higher Education Dollar: How Innovation Can Improve Access, Equity, and Affordability
Direct linkKelly, Andrew P., Ed.; Carey, Kevin, Ed. – Harvard Education Press, 2013
In this provocative volume, higher education experts explore innovative ways that colleges and universities can unbundle the various elements of the college experience while assessing costs and benefits and realizing savings. "Stretching the Higher Education Dollar" traces the reform continuum from incremental to more ambitious efforts.…
Descriptors: College Role, Costs, Educational Finance, Higher Education
Hess, Frederick M., Ed.; Osberg, Eric, Ed. – Harvard Education Press, 2010
Simultaneous pressures to reduce costs and increase student achievement have never been greater than they are today. Not only is cost-cutting essential in this era of tightened resources, argue Hess and Osberg, but eliminating inefficient spending is critical for freeing up resources to drive school reform. This provocative book brings together a…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, School Restructuring, Online Courses, Educational Change
Adams, Jacob E., Jr., Ed. – Harvard Education Press, 2010
Education finance has emerged as one of the most pressing public policy issues of the new century. Americans spend more than $500 billion a year on elementary and secondary education, yet neither policy-makers nor practitioners seems to know how to align these resources with student learning goals. In fact, spending increases have outstripped…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Educational Finance, Academic Achievement, Collective Bargaining
Levin, Henry M., Ed.; McEwan, Patrick J., Ed. – 2002
This collection of papers provides decision-makers with tools to improve resource allocation. The two primary tools, or modes, are cost-effective analysis and cost-benefit analysis, which researchers in education have devised and refined. This volume has three main goals, all intended to help decision-makers construct a useful research program:…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Economics of Education, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education
Association of Research Libraries, Washington, DC. Office of Management Studies. – 1979
A 1979 Systems and Procedures Exchange Center (SPEC) survey focused on reviewing the current state of fiscal planning and cost studies in Association of Research Libraries (ARL) member libraries. The survey results indicate that, while some libraries are beginning to use cost analysis techniques to evaluate current programs, to plan for new…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Cost Effectiveness, Cost Estimates, Financial Policy
Harman, Grant, Ed.; Selim, M., Ed. – 1991
This book presents articles that document the serious funding problems faced by higher education institutions and systems in the Asian and Pacific region, and explores possible strategies to address these problems. It presents an overview of the financial situation faced by higher education in the region, and then discusses two main strategies…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Cost Effectiveness, Developing Nations, Economic Impact
Higher Education in Latin America. Issues of Efficiency and Equity. World Bank Discussion Papers 77.
Download full textWinkler, Donald R. – 1990
The current state of higher education in Latin America is examined in discussion papers which attempt to identify the major problems in efficiency, finance, and equity in the area and offer policy choices for improving university performance and quality while maximizing society's return on its investment. The papers are organized as follows: (1)…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Educational Policy, Efficiency, Enrollment
Fowler, William J., Jr., Ed. – 2001
The National Center for Education Statistics commissioned the papers in this publication to address education-finance issues of interest to the education-finance community. Although teacher salaries rose between 1980 and 1997 by 120 percent, that is only equal to a 19 percent increase after removing inflation, or a little over 1 percent per year.…
Descriptors: Budgeting, Cost Effectiveness, Educational Change, Educational Finance
Alkin, Marvin; And Others – 1984
After outlining the 1984 activities and results of the Center for the Study of Evaluation's (CSE's) Evaluation Productivity Project, this monograph presents three reports. The first, "The Administrator's Role in Evaluation Use," by James Burry, Marvin C. Alkin, and Joan A. Ruskus, describes the factors influencing an evaluation's use…
Descriptors: Administrator Characteristics, Administrator Role, Cost Effectiveness, Cost Estimates
Peer reviewedSchwille, John, Ed.; Wheeler, Christopher W., Ed. – International Journal of Educational Research, 1992
These six chapters examine Thailand's efforts in the 1980s to improve the quality of primary (elementary) education. Thailand's experience in implementing improvement strategies within cost constraints may offer insights to other developing nations. Sample surveys, cost analyses, and case studies are the basis of research reported. (SLD)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Accountability, Cost Effectiveness, Developing Nations
Meyerson, Joel W., Ed.; Massy, William F., Ed. – 1995
This volume contains six essays on higher education which provide lessons and successful techniques for meeting the challenges of the future. The first essay, "Academic Renewal at Michigan" (James Duderstadt), describes the modern research university as a complex corporate conglomerate in danger of diluting its core business. The…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, College Programs, Cost Effectiveness, Educational Change
Hoenack, Stephen A., Ed.; Collins, Eileen L., Ed. – 1990
This collection of nine papers summarize research on the economics of university functioning including production processes, incentives and governance structures, cost and supply behavior, student attendance demands, and funding environments. The nine papers are: (1) "The Higher Education Production Function: Theoretical Foundations and Empirical…
Descriptors: College Instruction, Colleges, Cost Effectiveness, Decision Making
McMahon, Walter W., Ed.; Geske, Terry G., Ed. – 1982
Fiscal inefficiency in education is addressed in this book and ideas for achieving increased efficiency while more effectively using resources to maintain reasonable equality of opportunity in higher education are examined. Fourteen articles and authors that consider social efficiency, equity, and policy implications are as follows: "Efficiency…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Accountability, Budgeting, College Planning
