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Blumenstyk, Goldie – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2008
This article reports that the Higher Education Price Index (HEPI), a widely used measure of colleges' costs, rose by 3.6 percent for the 2008 fiscal year, which ended on June 30. But even as they reported the good news of that moderate increase, experts at the Commonfund Institute who maintain the index noted that broader economic trends could…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Cost Indexes, Operating Expenses, Consumer Economics
Sander, Libby – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2008
This article reports that nearly half of the nation's largest athletics programs have doubled or tripled their recruitment spending over the past decade, as their pursuit of elite athletes intensifies and becomes more national in scope. Forty-eight percent of NCAA Division I athletics departments at least doubled their recruiting budgets from 1997…
Descriptors: College Athletics, Athletes, Recruitment, Cost Indexes
Blonigen, Bruce A.; Harbaugh, William T.; Singell, Larry D.; Horner, Robert H.; Irvin, Larry K.; Smolkowski, Keith S. – Journal of Positive Behavior Interventions, 2008
The authors discuss how to use economic techniques to evaluate educational programs and show how to apply basic cost analysis to implementation of school-wide positive behavior support (SWPBS). A description of cost analysis concepts used for economic program evaluation is provided, emphasizing the suitability of these concepts for evaluating…
Descriptors: Economic Research, Program Evaluation, Cost Effectiveness, Program Descriptions

Hallberg, M. C. – Journal of Economic Education, 1995
Describes a computer software program that allows students, working independently and interactively with the computer, to select alternative market conditions and/or policies and view the results numerically as well as graphically. Discusses options and models provided by the software as well as classroom applications. (MJP)
Descriptors: Competition, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Oriented Programs, Computer Software

Whitmarsh, David – Journal of Economic Education, 1995
Maintains that computer-assisted instruction built around a spreadsheet-based model can illustrate and simplify some of the more difficult concepts concerning economics and fisheries. Describes a software program that illustrates overcapitalization, asset fixity, resource rent capture, economic optimum, and sustainable yield. (MJP)
Descriptors: Business Cycles, Capital, Competition, Computer Assisted Instruction

Li, Elton; Stoecker, Arthur – Journal of Economic Education, 1995
Describes a computer software program where students define alternative policy sets and compare their effects on the welfare of consumers, producers, and the public sector. Policy sets may be a single tax or quota or a mix of taxes, subsidies, and/or price supports implemented in the marketing chain. (MJP)
Descriptors: Competition, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Oriented Programs, Computer Software