ERIC Number: ED505097
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2009
Pages: 32
Abstractor: ERIC
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Campus Commons? What Faculty, Financial Officers and Others Think About Controlling College Costs
Immerwahr, John; Johnson, Jean; Gasbarra, Paul
Public Agenda
There is emerging consensus that the United States faces major higher education challenges, including: (1) America's fall from first to tenth place internationally in the percentage of the population with higher education degrees at a time when the country faces increased global economic competition in a knowledge-intensive economy; (2) Education of a new generation of students, including many black and Hispanic-Americans who have attended deficient secondary schools and have significantly lower graduation rates; (3) Declining state subsidies for public higher education; and (4) Tuition and fees, which have risen much faster than the median family income. Discussions with state level financial officers, institutional financial officers and faculty at two-year and four-year schools, higher education administrators and state legislators generated an inventory of ideas that include: (1) Improving college readiness; (2) Improving retention for students already in college; (3) Creating an integrated P-20 education system; (4) Offering greater differentiation of programs to match the diversity of college students; (5) Using incentives and models from the business world; (6) Innovating; (7) Making greater use of information; and (8) Offering better assessments and productivity measures. (Contains 5 footnotes.)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Middle Management, Budgets, Costs, Educational Finance, Educational Planning, Finance Reform, Accountability, Cost Effectiveness, Economic Impact, Strategic Planning, Graduation Rate, School Readiness, School Holding Power, Articulation (Education), Student Diversity, Student Needs, Incentives, Business, Models, Educational Innovation, Information Utilization, Measurement Techniques, Productivity
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Publication Type: Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education
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Language: English
Sponsor: Lumina Foundation for Education
Authoring Institution: Public Agenda
Identifiers - Location: United States
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