By Sherman Dorn on March 22, 2006
As CNN reports, state funding for higher ed has continued to decline as a proportion of total revenues. This is why claims about “educational inflation” being higher than general inflation is misleading—it’s true for tuition costs but not all costs; it’s true for some elite institutions but not the bulk; and it neatly avoids the […]
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Funding fudges
By Sherman Dorn on March 22, 2006
As CNN reports, state funding for higher ed has continued to decline as a proportion of total revenues. This is why claims about “educational inflation” being higher than general inflation is misleading—it’s true for tuition costs but not all costs; it’s true for some elite institutions but not the bulk; and it neatly avoids the […]
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