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Market values in American higher education : the pitfalls and promises

Title
Market values in American higher education : the pitfalls and promises / Charles W. Smith.
Author
Smith, Charles W., 1938-
Publication
Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, ©2000.

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Description
xii, 168 pages; 24 cm
Subject
  • Education, Higher > United States > Finance
  • College costs > United States
  • Education, Higher > Economic aspects > United States
  • College costs
  • Education, Higher > Economic aspects
  • Education, Higher > Finance
  • Bildungsfinanzierung
  • Höheres Bildungswesen
  • Hoger onderwijs
  • Kosten
  • Marktmechanisme
  • Bureaucratie
  • United States
  • USA
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 151-164) and index.
Contents
pt. I. The Pitfalls of False Economic Diagnoses. 1. Runaway Costs: Allegations and Reality. 2. Why Education Seems So Expensive. 3. Bad Management: Allegations and Reality. 4. So Why the Bad Rap? Multiple Products and Multiple Markets -- pt. II. The Pitfalls of Faulty Economic Cures. 5. Cutting Costs and Raising Revenues. 6. Expanding Academic Administration. 7. Curtailing Traditional Faculty Governance and Reward Systems -- pt. III. The Promise of Unexploited Market Resources. 8. Real Issues Confronting Higher Education. 9. Practical Possibilities and Successful Innovations. 10. Recapturing the American Dream.
ISBN
  • 0847695638
  • 9780847695638
  • 0847695646
  • 9780847695645
LCCN
99089685
OCLC
  • ocm43063287
  • 43063287
  • SCSB-8903926
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library