ERIC Number: EJ1387611
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2023
Pages: 8
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ISSN: ISSN-0009-1383
EISSN: EISSN-1939-9146
Disaggregating Higher Education Finance Data for Student-Centered Decision Making
Johnson, Nate
Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, v55 n3 p20-27 2023
In recent decades, education leaders and researchers have increasingly sought to disaggregate key higher education outcome data--graduation rates, attainment, employment, and income--by race and ethnicity in order to uncover and narrow equity gaps. The same is true, recently, for affordability, especially as it relates to the differential impact of student debt on students and families. What has been missing from these developments, however, are methods to disaggregate and talk about the financial inputs as well as the outcomes. In part, this is because the conventions of expenditure analysis in higher education were built around institutions and departments, not students, with a view to efficiency rather than equity. This article presents a set of measures intended to inform a conversation about equity in the measurement of postsecondary finance. Building on a framework that looked at institutional funding differences for lower- and higher-income students (Johnson, 2017), this effort focused primarily on race and ethnicity (and in a few cases, gender). Ideally, these measures would complement the work already done on disaggregated outcomes and help quantify gaps in investment that at least partially explain gaps in results.
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Finance, Data Analysis, Educational Equity (Finance), Ethnicity, Racial Differences, Investment, Expenditure per Student, Teacher Salaries, Endowment Funds, State Aid, Costs, Majors (Students)
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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