Raising Productivity in Higher Education

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ID9019290
AuthorsHenry M Levin (0000-0003-2729-9615, corresponding author)
Year1991
Volume62
Issue3
Pages241-262
Publication date1991-05-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Journal of Higher Education (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0022-1546 • E-ISSN: 1538-4640
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00221546.1991.11774123
OpenAlexW1973467353
LanguageEN
Citations received9
References cited23

The eighties have witnessed a rising concern with costs and productivity in higher education [8, 15, 24, 30, 39]. Annual increases in tuition among the private institutions have regularly exceeded inflation as have the increases in operating costs per student of both public and private institutions. Former U.S. secretary of education, William Bennett, argued that generous federal student aid served as an inducement to raise tuition charges for institutions that are characterized by gross inefficiencies due to an administrative blob and absurdly low teaching responsibility of faculty. And many of the institutions themselves have become obsessed with a situation in which expenses have risen more rapidly than income, necessitating general budgetary retrenchment even at some of the best-endowed universities in the country [8, 24, 30, 39]. It is generally acknowledged that higher education budgets face intense pressures to grow at rates that exceed income growth [5, 13, 29]. Additional income is used to expand existing programs and to establish new ones, with a reluctance to reallocate resources by eliminating or

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