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Direct linkFeldman, David H.; Romano, Richard M. – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2019
The rising price of a year in college looms large on the American political landscape. Calls to make college free, or at least debt free, will figure prominently in policy and political debates going forward. To make sense of this debate, an understanding of the forces that have been driving the price of a year in postsecondary education upward…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Costs, Access to Education, Public Colleges
Archibald, Robert B.; Feldman, David H. – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2011
Like most schools, College of William and Mary is not shy about touting its amenities. The Webpage that advertises the college's housing and dining options begins with, "Wireless and Starbucks? Thomas Jefferson never had it this good." Advertising of this sort is a double-edged public-relations sword. Colleges and universities clearly want to…
Descriptors: Food Service, Higher Education, Campuses, Housing
Archibald, Robert B.; Feldman, David H. – Journal of Higher Education, 2008
The real cost of higher education per full-time equivalent student has grown substantially over the last 75 years, and the rapid rise since the early 1980s is a cause of considerable public concern. Opinion surveys consistently find that how much one has to pay for a college education is a serious national issue. In his July 1996 congressional…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Economic Factors, Theories, Industry
Archibald, Robert B.; Feldman, David H. – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2008
Why do costs in higher education rise more rapidly than prices in general? They do so due to four factors: (1) higher education is a personal-service industry; (2) higher education relies on highly educated labor; (3) because of increased capital usage (in the form of the new technologies), higher education's reliance on highly educated labor has…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Service Occupations, Labor Force, Costs
Archibald, Robert B.; Feldman, David H. – Research in Higher Education, 2008
This paper suggests an alternative to the standard practice of measuring the graduation rate performance using regression analysis. The alternative is production frontier analysis. Production frontier analysis is appealing because it compares an institution's graduation rate to the best performance instead of the average performance. The paper…
Descriptors: Graduation Rate, Graduation, Accountability, Evaluation Methods
Peer reviewedFeldman, David H. – Roeper Review, 1983
The author cites thoughts of J. Gardner on excellence and compares them to findings of the National Commission on Excellence in Education. The author suggests the need for a reconceptualization of excellence and considers the implications for identification, selection, and programing of gifted students. (CL)
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Elementary Secondary Education, Gifted, Theories
