Tinkering with Postsecondary Education Financing Policy [electronic resource] : One Man's Opinion / Ben Lawrence.
The growth and optimism that characterized higher education in the 1950's and 1960's have given way abruptly to a projected future of stabilization and uncertainty. This paper addresses the most important of postsecondary education's problems that may be affected by financing arrangem...
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| Language: | English |
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| Summary: | The growth and optimism that characterized higher education in the 1950's and 1960's have given way abruptly to a projected future of stabilization and uncertainty. This paper addresses the most important of postsecondary education's problems that may be affected by financing arrangements and offers some suggestions for their alleviation. In brief, the author recommends the following financing policies: (1) Low tuition at public institutions should be maintained in recognition of collective societal benefits and of social obligations to individuals and groups. (2) If increased revenue must be obtained from students and their families, tuition at public upper-division and graduate levels should increase slightly. (3) State and local governments should continue to be primarily responsible for the basic institutional capability to offer a variety of postsecondary educational programs and services to meet the needs of their chtizens. (4) State and local support of institutions should be linked closely, but not exclusively, to student enrollments as a means to encourage institutions to respond rapidly to student need. The author then continues to discuss federal responsibilities in relation to financing, and philanthropic and institutional responsibilities. (Author/PG) |
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| Item Description: | ERIC Document Number: ED089588. ERIC Note: Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Association of Higher Education (Chicago, Illinois, March 11, 1974). Educational level discussed: Higher Education. |
| Physical Description: | 23 p. |