Why does college cost so much?

Robert B. Archibald, David H. Feldman

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Table of Contents:: The landscape of the college cost debate
Is higher education all that unusual?
Higher education is a service
The costs of employing highly educated workers
Cost and quality in higher education
The bottom line : why does college cost so much?
Is higher education increasingly dysfunctional?
Productivity growth in higher education
Subsidies and tuition setting
List-price tuition and institutional grants
Outside financial aid
The college affordability crisis
Federal policy and college tuition
Financial aid policy
Rewriting the relationship between states and their public universities
A few final observations.
Author/Creator:: Archibald, Robert B., 1946-
Contributors:: Feldman, David Henry
Languages:: English
Language Notes:: Item content: English
Main Work:: Why does college cost so much? [by Archibald, R.B.]
Subjects:: College costs — United States
Education, Higher — United States — Finance
College costs
Education, Higher — Finance
Education, Higher
United States
General Notes:: Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-282) and index.
Physical Description:: xii, 289 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Call Numbers:: LB2342 .A685 2011
ISBNs:: 9780199744503 (cloth, alk. paper)
0199744505 (cloth, alk. paper)
Library of Congress Control Numbers:: 2010007925
OCLC Numbers:: 544474632