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Title:

Unprofitable Schooling : Examining Causes of, and Fixes for, America's Broken Ivory Tower / Todd J. Zywicki and Neal P. Mccluskey, eds.

Publisher:

Cato Institute

Copyright Date:

2018

Description:

356 pages.

Subject:

Education, Higher--Economic aspects--United States.
College costs--United States.
Higher education and state--United States.
For-profit universities and colleges--United States.
Federal aid to higher education--United States.

Other Authors:

Zywicki, Todd J.,.
McCluskey, Neal P., 1972-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

What really spurred the Morrill Act? / Jane Shaw -- The Morrill Land-Grant Act : fact and mythology / Richard K. Vedder -- Accreditation : market regulation, or government regulation revisited? / Joshua C. Hall -- Understanding the runaway tuition phenomenon : a soliloquy with footnotes / Daniel D. Polsby -- Academic tenure and governance / Roger E. Meiners -- The changing of the guard : the political economy of administrative bloat in American higher education / Todd J. Zywicki and Christopher Koopman -- The senseless monstrosity in our path : academic bargains and the rise of the American University / Scott E. Masten -- All education is for-profit education / Henry G. Manne -- Assessing for-profit colleges / William F. Shughart and Jayme S. Lemke -- Public policy and the future of for-profit education / Michael E. DeBow -- Non-profit and for-profit enterprise in health care : birds of a feather? / David A. Hyman.

ISBN:

1948647044 (alk. paper)
9781948647045 (alk. paper)

LCCN:

2018053178

Locations:

XSPE157 -- Atlantic Public Library (Atlantic)