The college cost disease: higher cost and lower quality

Cost, quality, and anomalies in higher education -- Statistical measures : teaching productivity, cost, financial burden, and quality -- Reputations and the Chivas Regal effect -- The principal/agent problem in higher education -- Commercialization : the devil made me do it! -- The Gresham effect, l...

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1. Verfasser: Martin, Robert Edward 1944- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Cheltenham ; Northampton, Mass Edward Elgar c2011
Schriftenreihe:Edward Elgar E-Book Archive
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Zusammenfassung:Cost, quality, and anomalies in higher education -- Statistical measures : teaching productivity, cost, financial burden, and quality -- Reputations and the Chivas Regal effect -- The principal/agent problem in higher education -- Commercialization : the devil made me do it! -- The Gresham effect, lemons, and teaching -- Inside the black box
College cost per student has been on the rise at a pace that matches-- or exceeds-- healthcare costs. Unlike healthcare, though, teaching quality has declined, and rapidly rising costs and declining quality are not trends easily forgiven by society. The College Cost Disease addresses these problems, providing a behavioral framework for the chronic cost/quality consequences with which higher education is fraught. Providing many compelling insights into the issues plaguing higher education, Robert Martin expounds upon H.R. Bowen's revenue theory of cost by detailing experience good theory, the principal/agent problem, and non-profit status
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (p. 184-194) and index
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xi, 198 Seiten) ill
ISBN:9781849806176
DOI:10.4337/9781849806176