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Tuition: Selected Library Resources

The following related resources come from our library databases.

Explaining Increases in Higher Education Costs
A paper on "cost disease" in higher education, and its relationship to the same trends in other segments.
American Higher Education in Transition
A useful overview of recent changes in the higher education landscape, and how they are interconnected.
Best Buys in Higher Education
This article gives a sense of the complexity in determining value provided by specific colleges.
Fit, Fat or Failing (Juniata College)
An address delivered at Juniata College relating to financing in higher education.
Tuition Discounting for Revenue Management
Though its focus is on public institutions, this article is useful for explaining why and how institutions discount tuition.
Tuition Discounting without Tears
This older article is a good background resource for understanding tuition discounting.
What will colleges do when the bubble bursts?
This article treats issues of escalating tuition prices and technological threats to the status quo in higher education.

These are listed in chronological order of posting to the faculty listserv. Feel free to recommend more resources for posting!

InTuition Game, Popularity Rises with Price
NY Times article recommended by Prof. Heather Perretta
Reducing Tuition Makes College More Affordable...
Recommended by Prof. Colin Morris
College Calculator
Recommended by Prof. Sue Gerrity
Remarks by Prof. Jim Bryan
Providing local historical context, and explaining key concepts
Measuring Baumol and Bowen Effects in Public Research Universities [Martin and Hill]
Summarizing competing theories about rising tuition; recommended by Prof. Larry Krute
Tuition Cutting Institutions
A table, contributed by Prof. Larry Krute
Paper (Tuition) Cuts
Recommended by Prof. Larry Krute.
Chronicle article on tuition cutting
Recommended by Larry Krute.