Why public higher education should be free : how to decrease costs and increase quality at American universities / Robert Samuels.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2013]Copyright date: ©2013Description: 1 online resource (191 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780813561257 (e-book)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Why public higher education should be free : how to decrease costs and increase quality at American universities.DDC classification:
  • 378.1/06 23
LOC classification:
  • LB2342 .S28 2013eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Why tuition goes up and quality goes down -- Where the money goes in research universities -- Shortchanging undergraduate instruction -- The role of faculty and graduate students -- The rise of the administrative class -- The university as hedge fund -- The high cost of research -- Technology to the rescue? -- Making all public higher education free -- Educating students for a multicultural democracy.
Tags from this library: No tags from this library for this title. Log in to add tags.
Star ratings
    Average rating: 0.0 (0 votes)
No physical items for this record

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Why tuition goes up and quality goes down -- Where the money goes in research universities -- Shortchanging undergraduate instruction -- The role of faculty and graduate students -- The rise of the administrative class -- The university as hedge fund -- The high cost of research -- Technology to the rescue? -- Making all public higher education free -- Educating students for a multicultural democracy.

Description based on print version record.

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.

There are no comments on this title.

to post a comment.