These are the readings for next Wednesday (4/3/2013), on the Economics of Higher Education.  Group 3 should post reading questions ahead of time and be prepared to lead the discussion. Others should do reading questions or reading reactions of their own, but they do not need to be as extensive as those done by the group with this week’s assignments. Thanks for the interview questions. I will review them before the next class.

It looks like a lot, but most of them are one to a few pagers from the media. You may want to start with the Johnstone one. I’ve also included some links to a bunch of articles and on-line graphics from the WSJ. I was able to get some of them directly, but the others (with the small fonts) I had to get through the BC Library. Not sure why some were available and some not. but anyway, here they are in alpha order:

• 1. Bowen, W. Universities suffering from near fatal “Cost Disease”, Posting from Tomorrow’s Professor, 2/18/2013 bowen
  
• 2. DiNapoli, T. P. (2010) The Economic Impact of Higher Education in New York State, report 7-2011, Office of the State Comptroller. dinapoli
  
• 3. Guskin, A.E. and Marcy, M.B. (2003) Dealing with the future now. Change, July/August. guskin & marcy
  
• 4. Jashik, S. (2013) Study casts doubt on idea that spending more per student leads to better educational outcomes. Inside Higher Education 1/25/2013. jascik
  
• 5. Johnstone, D.B. (2011) Financing higher education: Who should pay? Ch 12 in in P. G. Altbach, P. J. Gumport, and R. O. Berdahl, American Higher Education in the Twenty-First Century, 3^rd Ed., Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press. 

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6. Kiley, K. (2013) Moody’s report calls into question all traditional university revenue sources. Inside Higher Ed, 1/17/13. moody
7. Kirp, D. L. (2005) This little student went to market, ch. 8 in Hersh, R. H. and Merrow, J. Declining by degrees: Higher Education at Risk. New York: Palgrave/Macmillan

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  8. Lexington, Higher Education: Is it really the next bubble? The Economist. 4/21/2011. lexington

• 9. WSJ interactive articles on the Costs of College (some also scanned but the website has good videos and interactive graphic demonstrations (could get some on-line directly but for others had to go through the College Library):

Colleges lose pricing power: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324442304578231922159602676.html

Selected articles at: http://online.wsj.com/public/page/cost-of-college.html

Student Debt: http://live.wsj.com/video/student-debt-nears-one-trillion-dollars/54FCA287-FFDD-441A-950E-A90784C80270.html#!54FCA287-FFDD-441A-950E-A90784C80270

Tuition: http://live.wsj.com/video/grading-colleges-by-student-debt/1ECF80C1-AC34-4143-8E07-EE6C7444A1E1.html#!1ECF80C1-AC34-4143-8E07-EE6C7444A1E1

Who can still afford State U? tp://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323501404578163290734542674.html#printMode

WSJ interactive data: http://graphics.wsj.com/PUBPRIV1212/#SelectedCategories=University+of+New+Mexico/unv58%7CUniversity+of+Florida/unv42%7CUniversity+of+Central+Florida/unv37%7CMississippi+State+University/unv10%7CUniversity+of+South+Florida/unv64&SugCategories=lUnv

Need vs. Merit: http://graphicsweb.wsj.com/documents/HOPE1212/

Administrative costs: http://graphicsweb.wsj.com/documents/NONCLASS1212/

Videos: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324442304578231922159602676.html#articleTabs%3Dvideo