{"id":18147,"date":"2012-12-12T12:03:47","date_gmt":"2012-12-12T17:03:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=18147"},"modified":"2012-12-12T12:03:47","modified_gmt":"2012-12-12T17:03:47","slug":"what-is-driving-the-increasing-price-of-higher-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2012\/12\/12\/what-is-driving-the-increasing-price-of-higher-education\/","title":{"rendered":"What is driving the increasing price of higher education?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8GTa_swC-OE\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>H\/T to <a href=\"https:\/\/danieljmitchell.wordpress.com\/2012\/12\/11\/who-should-be-blamed-for-the-rising-cost-of-college\/\" target=\"_blank\">Daniel J. Mitchell<\/a>, who adds:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The first part of the video shows that a college degree has become more valuable, so it\u2019s understandable that the relative price of higher education has risen.<\/p>\n<p>But then, beginning at about 1:55, the video discusses the role of subsidies. Echoing points I\u2019ve made in the past, the professor explains how subsidies have simply generated higher prices. In other words, colleges have captured all the benefits, not students.<\/p>\n<p><em>Business Week<\/em> recently <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/articles\/2012-11-21\/the-troubling-dean-to-professor-ratio\" target=\"_blank\">published a story<\/a> that provides some glaring example of how universities have wasted all the additional money. Here are some remarkable excerpts.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<p><em>\u201cI have no idea what these people do,\u201d says the biomedical engineering professor. Purdue has a $313,000-a-year acting provost and six vice and associate vice provosts, including a $198,000-a-year chief diversity officer. Among its 16 deans and 11 vice presidents are a $253,000 marketing officer and a $433,000 business school chief. The average full professor at the public university in West Lafayette, Ind., makes $125,000. The number of Purdue administrators has jumped 54 percent in the past decade\u2014almost eight times the growth rate of tenured and tenure-track faculty. \u201cWe\u2019re here to deliver a high-quality education at as low a price as possible,\u201d says Robinson. \u201cWhy is it that we can\u2019t find any money for more faculty, but there seems to be an almost unlimited budget for administrators?\u201d \u2026Purdue is typical: At universities nationwide, employment of administrators jumped 60 percent from 1993 to 2009, 10 times the growth rate for tenured faculty. \u201cAdministrative bloat is clearly contributing to the overall cost of higher education,\u201d says Jay Greene, an education professor at the University of Arkansas. In a 2010 study, Greene found that from 1993 to 2007, spending on administration rose almost twice as fast as funding for research and teaching at 198 leading U.S. universities. <\/em><\/p>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>H\/T to Daniel J. Mitchell, who adds: The first part of the video shows that a college degree has become more valuable, so it\u2019s understandable that the relative price of higher education has risen. But then, beginning at about 1:55, the video discusses the role of subsidies. Echoing points I\u2019ve made in the past, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,25,79,13],"tags":[95,793,764],"class_list":["post-18147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bureaucracy","category-economics","category-education","category-usa","tag-jobs","tag-subsidies","tag-university"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-4IH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18147"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18148,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18147\/revisions\/18148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}