Clotfelter Buying the Best

Cost Escalation in Elite Higher Education
Course Book
ISBN: 978-1-4008-6427-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 334 Seiten

Reihe: Princeton Legacy Library

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Clotfelter, Charles T.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Schulen, Schulleitung Universitäten, Hochschulen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures

List of Tables

Foreword

Preface

List of Abbreviations

Ch. 1 The Problem of Rising Costs 1

Ch. 2 A Peculiar Institution 20

Appendix 2.1 A Simple Financial Model of a University 51

Appendix 2.2 Decomposing Rates of Growth in Expenditures 57

Ch. 3 Boom Times for Selective Institutions 58

Appendix 3.1 Supplementary Tables for Chapter 3 77

Ch. 4 Patterns and Trends in Expenditures 82

Appendix 4.1 Dealing with Interdepartmental Transfers and Recharges 117

Appendix 4.2 Categories Used to Create Expenditure Tables 121

Appendix 4.3 Trends in Duke Expenditures from 1976/77 to 1983/84 135

Ch. 5 The Sources of Rising Expenditures 139

Appendix 5.1 Supplementary Tables for Chapter 5 159

Ch. 6 Administrative Functions 162

Ch. 7 The Allocation of Faculty Effort 179

Appendix 7.1 Options for Providing Classroom Instruction 205

Appendix 7.2 Calculation of Classroom Teaching Loads and Course Characteristics 206

Appendix 7.3 Data on Committee Membership 216

Ch. 8 Classes and Course Offerings 218

Appendix 8.1 Supplementary Tables for Chapter 8 240

Ch. 9 Ambition Meets Opportunity 247

Notes to the Chapters 265

Bibliography 285

Index 293