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| Format: | Recurso educativo Open Access |
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| Language: | en |
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1997
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| Online Access: | https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED421946 |
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- Restructuring Higher Education: Cost Containment and Productivity Enhancement Efforts of North American Colleges and Universities. Change Strategies College Administration Computer Uses in Education Cost Effectiveness Costs Educational Finance Faculty Workload Higher Education Marketing Privatization Productivity Telecommunications This report addresses issues in the efforts of colleges and universities to reduce costs. First, some key findings are identified, including the rapid increase in tuition since 1981; decreases in academic library expenditures; increases in cooperative arrangements; use of more adjunct faculty; and increased privatization of services. Individual chapters address the following topics: (1) the growing pressure to bring costs down; (2) 10 major factors contributing to increases in costs and tuition; (3) training versus education; (4) hard and easy choices for public and private institutions; (5) faculty workload and employment of adjuncts; (6) administrative costs; (7) technology; (8) colleges as marketing gateways for technology vendors; (9) productivity in teaching; (10) partnerships, consortia, and mergers; (11) performance contracting and outsourcing; (12) electric utility deregulation; (13) telecommunications deregulation; (14) nontraditional programs; (15) healthcare reform; and (16) financial management. Appended is a list of related reports. (DB)