Using Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) figures on the 96 Research Extensive Institution in academic year 2007-2008, we employ panel data from academic year 1984-1985 to 2007-2008 to identify revenue-expenditure relationships. Although we consider a wide range of functional expenditure categories, we focus our analysis on…

Analyzes the probable impact of substantially increased tuition to public universities and colleges, viewing public tuition as a form of taxation, and concludes that the middle-income student and his-her family would bear a disproportionately large share of the burden resulting from a tuition increase. (Author/IRT)

This paper examines the no-growth phenomenon in higher education. A framework is presented for viewing what is occurring in higher education as it seeks to resume a dynamic state of growth. Borrowing from Schumpeter's five categories of innovations by which business firms seek to gain a competitive edge over their rivals, an analytical framework…

This paper evaluates tax strategies designed to gain public financial support for nontraditional students in postsecondary education. Discusses both the scientific and political criteria of comprising an analytical framework used for evaluating the potential of five forms of tax allowances. (BR)

Considers the present redirection of public support of higher education from institutional to student support categories. It was found that when considered as money income, student aid results in (1) increased consumption of higher education and (2) a redistribution of students to the private, the non two-year, and the smaller institutions.…

In the past several years a trend toward government funding of higher education through students has been emerging. This trend, which proposes to apply the market model to higher education, is largely the work of well-meaning economists, persons possessing only the high motives of equalizing opportunity and improving efficiency in higher…

This document discusses the various methods that might be used in funding higher education, with special emphasis on access to colleges and universities as related to educational finance. There are two major theories regarding the funding of higher education. The first is the individual benefits theory. Those who represent this theory claim that…

Two higher education finance systems with a common cultural heritage are compared. The characteristics of each from the last 20 years are described and suggestions for the future are offered. (Author/MLW)

Most public institutions of higher education structure enrollment policy around the belief that higher education enrollments mean greater state appropriations. A study that found that added enrollments commonly reflected a net financial loss in appropriations per student for public institutions is discussed. (Author/MLW)

A progress report on the Center for the Study of Higher Education (CASE) National Donor Data Base Project is presented. The project, which began in June 1987, has proceeded in several phases: (1) data base design; (2) acquisition of data from participating institutions; (3) development of software to load each institution's data into the donor…

This document presents ideas and arguments concerning the concept of low tutition. Part 1 discusses the present state and future promises in regard to tuition pricing. It is suggested that tuitions are rising because the costs of higher education are rising. Also higher education is losing in the competition for public resources; however the…

This paper examines the implicit assumption that student-centered learning is most appropriately and adequately financed by channelling public resources through students. Emphasis is placed both on the conceptual arguments related to the adequacy and appropriateness of the market model as a policy basis for higher education, and on empirical…

This paper deals with the increasing tendency of government to finance higher education through students, a trend having important policy implications for higher education. This trend and numerous related governmental decisions have been based almost exclusively upon economic rationale. (Author)

It is contended that future prospects for higher education are brighter than many anticipate. Political inertia acts to keep public spending near previous levels, and even during "down periods" educational resources seldom decline. (Author/PHR)

Voluntary support of higher education in America is investigated through regression analysis of institutional characteristics at two points in time. The assumption of donor rationality together with explicit consideration of interorganizational relationships offers a coherent framework for the analysis of voluntary support by the major…