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Book Crisis in Higher Education

Download or read book Crisis in Higher Education written by Jeffrey R. Docking and published by MSU Press. This book was released on 2015-02-01 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2005 Adrian College was home to 840 enrolled students and had a tuition income of $8.54 million. By fall of 2011, enrollment had soared to 1,688, and tuition income had increased to $20.45 million. For the first time in years, the small liberal arts college was financially viable. Adrian College experienced this remarkable growth during the worst American economy in seventy years and in a state ravaged by the decline of the big three auto companies. How, exactly, did this turnaround happen? Crisis in Higher Education: A Plan to Save Small Liberal Arts Colleges in America was written to facilitate replication and generalization of Adrian College’s tremendous enrollment growth and retention success since 2005. This book directly addresses the economic competitiveness of small four-year institutions of higher education and presents an evidence-based solution to the enrollment and economic crises faced by many small liberal arts colleges throughout the country.

Book Higher Education Financing in the Fifty States

Download or read book Higher Education Financing in the Fifty States written by and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Resources in Education

Download or read book Resources in Education written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Higher Education Financing in the Fifty States

Download or read book Higher Education Financing in the Fifty States written by Marilyn McCoy and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Mismatch

    Book Details:
  • Author : Richard Sander
  • Publisher : Basic Books
  • Release : 2012-10-09
  • ISBN : 0465030017
  • Pages : 370 pages

Download or read book Mismatch written by Richard Sander and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2012-10-09 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The debate over affirmative action has raged for over four decades, with little give on either side. Most agree that it began as noble effort to jump-start racial integration; many believe it devolved into a patently unfair system of quotas and concealment. Now, with the Supreme Court set to rule on a case that could sharply curtail the use of racial preferences in American universities, law professor Richard Sander and legal journalist Stuart Taylor offer a definitive account of what affirmative action has become, showing that while the objective is laudable, the effects have been anything but. Sander and Taylor have long admired affirmative action's original goals, but after many years of studying racial preferences, they have reached a controversial but undeniable conclusion: that preferences hurt underrepresented minorities far more than they help them. At the heart of affirmative action's failure is a simple phenomenon called mismatch. Using dramatic new data and numerous interviews with affected former students and university officials of color, the authors show how racial preferences often put students in competition with far better-prepared classmates, dooming many to fall so far behind that they can never catch up. Mismatch largely explains why, even though black applicants are more likely to enter college than whites with similar backgrounds, they are far less likely to finish; why there are so few black and Hispanic professionals with science and engineering degrees and doctorates; why black law graduates fail bar exams at four times the rate of whites; and why universities accept relatively affluent minorities over working class and poor people of all races. Sander and Taylor believe it is possible to achieve the goal of racial equality in higher education, but they argue that alternative policies -- such as full public disclosure of all preferential admission policies, a focused commitment to improving socioeconomic diversity on campuses, outreach to minority communities, and a renewed focus on K-12 schooling -- will go farther in achieving that goal than preferences, while also allowing applicants to make informed decisions. Bold, controversial, and deeply researched, Mismatch calls for a renewed examination of this most divisive of social programs -- and for reforms that will help realize the ultimate goal of racial equality.

Book Hearing on H R  6  the Higher Education Amendments of 1998

Download or read book Hearing on H R 6 the Higher Education Amendments of 1998 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and the Workforce. Subcommittee on Postsecondary Education, Training, and Life-long Learning and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Finance of Higher Education

Download or read book The Finance of Higher Education written by Michael B. Paulsen and published by Algora Publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 603 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wide-ranging examination of the governmental and institutional policies and practices, and essential theories and areas of research that in combination establish the foundation, explore and extend the boundaries, and expand the base of knowledge in the field of higher education finance. (Education)

Book Finance  Productivity  and Management in Postsecondary Education

Download or read book Finance Productivity and Management in Postsecondary Education written by National Institute of Education (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Illinois Appropriations

Download or read book Illinois Appropriations written by Illinois. Comptroller's Office and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Politics of Performance Funding for Higher Education

Download or read book The Politics of Performance Funding for Higher Education written by Kevin J. Dougherty and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2015-05-15 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "One of the striking ways in which state governments have pursued better performance in public higher education is through the use of performance funding. Performance funding involves tying state support directly to institutional performance on specific outcomes such as rates of graduation and job placement. The principal rationale for performance funding has been that the introduction of market-like forces will prod institutions to become more efficient, delivering "more bang for the buck." Kevin Dougherty, an expert on state performance funding, finds its development puzzling. First, despite the great interest in it, only half the states have ever adopted performance funding for higher education. Moreover, of the states that did adopt performance funding, over half later dropped it. Finally, in the states that have retained performance funding over a long period of time, their programs have undergone considerable changes in the amount of state funding they devote to performance funding and in the content of the indicators they use to allocate that funding. In spite of this, performance funding continues to attract interest as a way of improving educational outcomes. This book, based on an extensive ten-state study, aims to shed light on the social and political factors affecting the origins, evolution, and demise of these programs"--

Book Financial Assistance by Geographic Area

Download or read book Financial Assistance by Geographic Area written by and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 952 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Research in Education

Download or read book Research in Education written by and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 1262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book National Guide to Funding in Higher Education

Download or read book National Guide to Funding in Higher Education written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 1334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Oversight Hearing on the Impact of President Reagan s Fiscal Year 1987 Budget Proposals on Federal Student Financial Assistance and Other Federal Higher Education Programs

Download or read book Oversight Hearing on the Impact of President Reagan s Fiscal Year 1987 Budget Proposals on Federal Student Financial Assistance and Other Federal Higher Education Programs written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Subcommittee on Postsecondary Education and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Publication

Download or read book Publication written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 1112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: