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The states and public higher education policy : affordability, access, and accountability /

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Other Authors: Heller, Donald E.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001.
Subjects:
Higher education and state > United States > Congresses.
State universities and colleges > United States > Administration > Congresses.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: the changing dynamics of affordability, access, and accountability in public higher education / Donald E. Heller
  • Trends in the affordability of public colleges and universities: the contradiction of increasing prices and increasing enrollement / Donald E. Heller
  • The paradox of college prices: five stories with no clear lesson / Michael Mumper
  • Reforming the ways in which states finance higher education / Arthur M. Hauptman
  • Reframing access and opportunity: problematic state and federal higher education policy in the 1990s / Patrick M. Callan
  • Time for retreat or renewal? Perspectives on the effects of Hopwood on campus / Sylvia Hurtado and Heather Wathington Cade
  • The contemporary politics of access policy: California after Proposition 209 / Brian Pusser
  • Public policy and accountability in higher education: lessons from the past and present for the new millennium / William Zumeta
  • A study in tension: state assessment and public colleges and universities / Michael Nettles and John Cole
  • The call for public accountability: rethinking the linkages to student outcomes / Edward P. St. John, Kimberly A. Kline, and Eric H. Asker
  • Conclusion: technology and the future of public higher education policy / Donald E. Heller.