States and Public Higher Education Policy Affordability, Access, and Accountability

Name: States and Public Higher Education Policy Affordability, Access, and Accountability
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ISBN: 9781421401225

ISBN-10: 1421401223

ISBN-13: 9781421401225

Edition: 2nd 2011

Authors: Donald E. Heller

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Affordability, access, and accountability have long been among the central challenges facing higher education -- and they remain so today. Here, Donald E. Heller and other higher education scholars and practitioners explore the current debates surrounding these key issues. As students and their families struggle to meet rising tuition prices, and as state resources for funding higher education dwindle, policymakers confront issues of affordability within state and institutional budgets. Changing demographics and challenges to affirmative action complicate the admissions process even as colleges and universities seek to diversify enrollments. And issues of institutional accountability have…

Book details

List price: $30.00
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication date: 9/1/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.09" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English



Foreword



Acknowledgments


Introduction: Affbrdability, Access, and Accountability in Twenty-first Century Public Higher Education




Affordability



Trends in the Affordability of Public Colleges and Universities: The Contradiction of Increasing Prices and Increasing Enrollment




The Continuing Paradox of Public College Tuition Inflation




Reforming How States Finance Higher Education




Access



Reframing Access and Opportunity: Public Policy Dimensions




Race-Conscious Decision-Making in a State-Driven Admissions Process: Texas, the University of Texas at Austin, and the Top Ten Percent Plan




After Proposition 209: Post-Affirmative Action College Access Policy in California




Accountability



Assessing Student Learning Outcomes in College: The Role of the States




Accountability Policies: Directions Old and New




Responses to the Call for Public Accountability: Using Student Data Systems to Facilitate Improvement in Degree Attainment



Conclusion: State Policy and Technology: Aims, Realities, and the Uncertain Future



List of Contributors


Index