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Download full textCommonfund Institute, 2018
The Higher Education Price Index (HEPI) is an inflation index designed specifically for use by institutions of higher education. Compiled from data reported by government agencies and industry sources, HEPI measures the average relative level in the price of a fixed market basket of goods and services purchased by colleges and universities each…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Cost Indexes, College Faculty, Teacher Salaries
Direct linkDickerson, Jane – New England Journal of Higher Education, 2016
Faced with operational complexities on par with those of a city, larger colleges and universities have long understood the value of taking a strategic approach to understanding and managing enterprise risks. Personnel dedicated to risk analysis and control at these institutions are tasked with taking a holistic view of the exposures, liabilities…
Descriptors: Risk Assessment, Risk Management, College Administration, Governance
Anthony, Aaron M. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
In this dissertation, I explore questions relating to estimating and framing college net pricing. In the first study, I measure variation in actual grant aid awards for students predicted by the federal template Net Price Calculator (NPC) to receive identical aid awards. Estimated aid derived from the federal template NPC accounts for 85 percent…
Descriptors: Accuracy, Paying for College, College Choice, Student Attitudes
Commonfund Institute, 2017
The Higher Education Price Index (HEPI) is an inflation index designed specifically for use by institutions of higher education. Compiled from data reported by government agencies and industry sources, HEPI measures the average relative level in the price of a fixed market basket of goods and services purchased by colleges and universities each…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Cost Indexes, Economic Climate, Differences
Peer reviewedHollands, Fiona M.; Levin, Henry M. – National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance, 2017
This brief provides guidance to decision makers in schools, districts, state education departments, and intermediary organizations about ways that cost analyses can help inform their decisions about program choices, budgets, and strategies. It addresses questions about: (1) why cost information matters in education; (2) what cost metrics are…
Descriptors: Information Utilization, Evidence Based Practice, Decision Making, Cost Indexes
Fincher, Mark; Katsinas, Stephen – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2017
Higher education enrolment has long been known to rise and fall counter to the current economic situation. This counter-cyclical enrolment response represents an economic principle where a price-elastic consumer is more likely make a consumption choice when another valuable use of resources is not available. Higher unemployment has historically…
Descriptors: College Students, Costs, Student Costs, Cost Indexes
Commonfund Institute, 2016
The Higher Education Price Index (HEPI) is an inflation index designed specifically for use by institutions of higher education. Compiled from data reported by government agencies and industry sources, HEPI measures the average relative level in the price of a fixed market basket of goods and services purchased by colleges and universities each…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Cost Indexes, Economic Climate, Differences
Ahlstrom, Christopher – Online Journal of Distance Learning Administration, 2016
Online programming has expanded greatly within higher education and much attention has been spent on public two year colleges (more commonly known as community colleges) and both private and public four year institutions. This research seeks to expand understanding of the small market of private not-for-profit two year colleges within the United…
Descriptors: Two Year Colleges, Nonprofit Organizations, Online Courses, Community Colleges
Parker, Emily; Atchison, Bruce; Workman, Emily – Education Commission of the States, 2016
This report highlights significant investments made by both Republican and Democratic policymakers in state-funded pre-k programs for the fourth year in a row. In the 2015-16 budget year, 32 states and the District of Columbia raised funding levels of pre-k programs. This increased support for preschool funding came from both sides of the…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, State Aid, Annual Reports, Trend Analysis
Commonfund Institute, 2015
The Higher Education Price Index (HEPI) is an inflation index designed specifically for use by institutions of higher education. Compiled from data reported by government agencies and industry sources, HEPI measures the average relative level in the price of a fixed market basket of goods and services purchased by colleges and universities each…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Cost Indexes, Economic Climate, Differences
Wang, Shouhong – Online Journal of Distance Learning Administration, 2015
Pricing online courses is an important issue for managing online education. This research note reports a statistical analysis of price differences between online courses and on-campus courses at 103 US educational institutions based on the data available on the Internet. The finding indicates that educational institutions set significantly lower…
Descriptors: Costs, Cost Indexes, Courses, College Programs
Chong, James T.; Jennings, William P.; Phillips, G. Michael – American Journal of Business Education, 2014
This paper illustrates how a third statistic from asset pricing models, the R-squared statistic, may have information that can help in portfolio construction. Using a traditional CAPM model in comparison to an 18-factor Arbitrage Pricing Style Model, a portfolio separation test is conducted. Portfolio returns and risk metrics are compared using…
Descriptors: Corporations, Investment, Regression (Statistics), Models
Kelchen, Robert – Review of Higher Education, 2016
Student fees make up 20% of the total cost of tuition and fees at the typical four-year public, yet little research has been conducted to examine institutional-level and state-level factors that may affect student fee charges. I use panel data to find that institutional selectivity and athletics spending do not influence student fee levels.…
Descriptors: Fees, Institutional Role, Performance Factors, Data Analysis
Raible, John; deNoyelles, Aimee – Higher Learning Research Communications, 2015
Adopting digital materials such as eTextbooks and e-coursepacks is a potential strategy to address textbook affordability in the United States. However, university business relationships with bookstore vendors implicitly structure which instructional resources are available and in what manner. In this study, a document analysis was conducted on…
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Textbooks, Contracts, Online Vendors
Commonfund Institute, 2014
The Higher Education Price Index (HEPI) is an inflation index designed specifically for use by institutions of higher education. Compiled from data reported by government agencies and industry sources, HEPI measures the average relative level in the price of a fixed market basket of goods and services purchased by colleges and universities each…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Cost Indexes, Economic Climate, Differences
