All Posts Tagged With: "college tuition"
Separate the Professions and the State
Lewis Andrews (lew@yankeeinstitute.org) is executive director of the Yankee Institute for Public Policy in Hartford, Connecticut. Since the early 1990s, and even through the collapse of the stock-market bubble, the American economy has continued to experience remarkable increases in worker productivity, both in manufacturing, which now accounts for 14 percent of the nation’s output, and [...]
1Dec2004 | Lewis M. Andrews | 0 comments | ContinuedFinancing College Tuition: Government Policies and Educational Priorities edited by Marvin H. Kosters
American Enterprise Institute • 1999 • 129 pages • $29.95 cloth; $14.95 paperback Higher education is a prodigious sacred cow in America. Consisting overwhelmingly of institutions that do not have to pass the test of the market and that subsist largely on funds that come directly or indirectly from government, our higher education system grows, [...]
1Mar2000 | George C. Leef | 0 comments | ContinuedSubsidized Education
Russell Madden teaches at Mt. Mercy College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. It’s an annual ritual. With a sense of dread tinged with resignation, college students, or their parents, wait to discover how much this year’s tuition will rise. Unlike their experience with new computers, they entertain no expectation that rates for their education will decrease. [...]
1Sep1999 | Russell Madden | 23 comments | Continued-
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