Economic Challenges in Higher Education

by Ronald G. Ehrenberg, John J. Siegfried, Malcolm Getz, et al.

The last two decades have been a turbulent period for American higher education, with profound demographic shifts, gyrating salaries, and marked changes in the economy. While enrollments rose about 50% in that period, sharp increases in tuition and fees at colleges and universities provoke accusations of inefficiency, even outright institutional greed and irresponsibility. As the 1990s progress, surpluses in the academic labor supply may give way...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226110508
• ISBN13: 9780226110509
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.3" x 9.2"