A report by John Immerwahr and Jean Johnson, with Amber Ott and Jonathan Rochkind by Public Agenda and the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education, supported by Lumina Foundation for Education. Together with other recent trends, these findings suggest that many Americans are becoming more skeptical about whether colleges and universities are doing all that they can to control costs and keep tuition affordable. It may also...
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A report prepared by CEO for Cities, with support from Lumina Foundation for Education. The objective of this report is to provide quantitative estimates of the economic gains that metropolitan areas and cities could achieve by improving their performance in talent, sustainability and opportunity, or what is called City Dividends.
A report prepared by Jobs for the Future and Delta Project on Postsecondary Costs, Productivity and Accountability focused on exploring whether first-year programs designed to retain students are a cost-effective investments for colleges and universities.
A report prepared by Sandy Baum for Lumina Foundation for Education. Paying for College makes a start at advancing the productivity conversation. It outlines a simple framework for understanding concepts in college costs. Developing both clear language to describe the central elements of college finance and adequate data to measure and compare trends are key components of the process. The paper also reviews basic college finance...
An Issue Brief prepared by the Delta Cost Project for Lumina Foundation for Education.
One of the barriers to improved cost accountability lies in the metrics of cost analysis. In the hope of advancing the discussion, the Delta Project has developed several recommendations for aggregate measures of costs for policy audiences.
An Issue Brief prepared by the Delta Cost Project for Lumina Foundation for Education. To understand why tuitions are increasing at institutions of higher education, policymakers need to look at the relationships between and among cost, price and subsidy. This brief explains how to understand those relationships, what the trend data show at a national level, places to go for more information, and questions to ask.
A report prepared by Patrick Kelly for Delta Cost Project's White Paper Series, supported by Lumina Foundation for Education. This report expands work previously conducted by NCHEMS to incorporate a more general measure of degree and certificate productivity, gauging the levels of unrestricted resources made available to state public colleges and universities and the corresponding production of degrees and certificates - taking into account...
A report by Nate Anderson for Delta Cost Project's White Paper Series, supported by Lumina Foundation for Education. This paper uses actual spending data from two public university systems to present several ways to talk to about the production cost of bachelor's degree education in different contexts:
- "Catalog" cost: to provide the 120-128 credits required for most bachelor's degrees;
- "Transcript" cost: the cost of what...
A report by John Immerwahr and Jean Johnson for Public Agenda supported by Lumina Foundation for Education. For increasing numbers of Americans, a crucial facet of the American Dream appears to be at risk. A solid majority consider a college degree an indispensable ticket to the middle class. At the same time, even more people believe college is financially out-of-reach for many qualified students.
This report is a follow-up to...
A report prepared by the Delta Cost Project for Lumina Foundation for Education. It's time to get past the technical obstacles that have dominated this topic for too long and do something about cost accountability. Every institution should be able to tell students, boards and legislatures basic facts about where the money comes from, where it goes, and what it buys. Every state policymaker should know how state funds are spent, what they buy...