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Sherman Dorn
Six realities of public higher education spending
With President Obama’s speech last month in Buffalo, and Dylan Matthews’ Tuition Is Too Damn High’ series in the Washington Post‘s Wonkblog, institutional and student costs have been at the focus of higher-ed policy debate at the start of this academic year. Late last week, Matthews concluded his series with a list of ideas to reduce […]
Increased tuition at research universities: Bowen, relative priorities, and net assets
Over at the Washington Post’s Wonkblog, Dylan Matthews has been tearing it up with a series of posts on increasing tuition he titled The Tuition Is Too Damn High. Thus far, the three must-reads are the following entries: Part 3: The three segments of public/non-profit higher ed, and why the tuition increased for different reasons […]
Four (or maybe five) ideas for how President Obama really could reform college financial aid
Addendum: My ideas in this blog post are now a Major Motion Picture column over at Inside Higher Ed. My observable corner of the blogiverse has been active and very sharp since the president’s speech at SUNY Buffalo and the White House dreams of reforming college financial aid. Various people I read have noted the […]
Atomic Department Ravages the Big Apple!!
On Monday, I discussed the difficulties with analysis of college and university costs that relied on either legal or largely rhetorical allocations. Today, I want to discuss the common perception that traditions of departmental autonomy are responsible for huge amounts of inefficiency in colleges and universities. ((This is different from arguments about labor costs. Skyrocketing faculty […]
Rhetorical allocations in higher education
Sara Goldrick-Rab’s discussion in early August of higher education, health care, and costs argues that there needs to be more nuts-and-bolts scrutiny of costs in colleges. I agree, and yet I also think it is difficult to do so cleanly. If you think hospitals are good at obscuring what is spent where (and they are very good […]