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Unprofitable Schooling: Examining Causes of, and Fixes for, America's Broken Ivory Tower,Used
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Most economies advance by simultaneously decreasing costs and increasing quality. Unfortunately, when it comes to higher education, this has been turned on its head. Costs keep rising while quality declines. How has this happened? What can be done?This exceptional volume looks at the issues facing higher education from the perspective of both economics and history. Each chapter explores how the lessons learned from market competition in other sectors of the economy can be applied to higher education in order to bring about innovation, improved quality, and lower costs.The opening section offers a history of forprofit education before the Morrill Actthe federal legislation that funded landgrant universities; reviews the Act's impact; and concludes with an exploration of federal student aid and how it prevents new funding options from entering the market.Section two examines higher education as it stands todaywhat is driving up college prices; tenure; administrative bloat; and university governance. And, the concluding third section shows how robust competition in higher education can be energized, and takes a deep look at forprofit vs. nonprofit institutions.Unprofitable Schooling provides a sober and informative assessment of the state of higher education, critically covering historical assumptions, increasing government involvement, reflexive aversion to profit, and other, maybe unexpected, conclusions.
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