When Universities Pretend to Be Businesses
Since at least the early twentieth century, universities have flirted with America’s penchant for “running things like a business.” But like government, non-profits, and other non-businesses that try to be…
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It is possible to control college costs—and I did it
Many college leaders speak as though the upward cost spiral is permanent and unavoidable. From experience, I can say that’s not true.
Tuition increases at American colleges began in earnest in the 1960s and ’70s, when I was a mathematics professor and later dean at C.W. Post College. The first changes driving the increases were the reductions in teaching loads.